The Big Picture

AUGUST 8, 2022

ANAT ADMATI, PROFESSOR OF FIANCE AND ECONOMICS, STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: So, my journey starts where I took a lot of math. I was good in math and I love the math. So, I was kind of, in my romantic mind when I was in my early 20s, I was going to take but not give back to math, that kind of thing.

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The Better Letter

MARCH 18, 2025

Both 2021 and 2022 each had 14 upsets; there were 10 upsets in 2023 and nine in 2024, if only three in 2007. Last season’s UConn Huskies won a second consecutive title as a heavily favored top seed, unlike 2023 when they were a four. Between 1985 and 2024, there were 8.5 upsets per tournament (4.7 quintillion.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

I try to analyze the economy from the top. And to this day, we know when I have a view on the economy, or usually have a view on the economy or inflation, it’s usually driven because I read so many corporate earnings reports and trying to understand why they’re cutting inventory, why are they laying off people.

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Good Financial Cents

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

You can become a tutor in almost any subject, but science and math are two of the most profitable niches. Food or Package Delivery The gig economy has revolutionized everything from how we order food to the way we get around. Tutoring Tutoring is one of the best strategies for helping children who are struggling with their schoolwork.

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Nationwide Financial

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The curve, however, continues to project cuts to the rate beginning next May, which seems optimistic given the tone of Fed officials and the math around getting inflation back close to their 2% target. The Fed Futures curve embeds an 88% chance of a 0.75% hike later this month, with a peak in the Fed Funds rate at roughly 4% (currently 2.5%).

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. Two reasons. Oh that’s interesting.

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David Nelson

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Look outside the popular favorites for new themes as we head into 2024 The Price Tag for Downside Protection – Protecting the downside often means lagging the upside By David Nelson, CFA CMT As 2023 comes to a close, it is time for a raw, no-holds-barred reflection on the investment battlefield.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 20, 2024

00:03:14 [Mike Greene] So that was actually an outgrowth from my experience coming out of Wharton and you mentioned the, the, you know, the transition of people who tended to be skilled at math or physics into finance. There’s a continual, the economy continues to grow. NBER should declare a recession in first quarter 2023.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 16, 2024

I was always good at math, but I really, I just didn’t relate to things that were more esoteric bonds options. 00:34:26 [Speaker Changed] So, so the October data for single family homes, October, 2023 record, low number of transactions. And I, I think that I kind of triangulated on it. I have no family history.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 17, 2023

So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. It’s just math stick to it over long periods of time. And here we are about to start the fourth quarter of 2023.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

And that’s gonna lead to probably a hard landing in 2023. I mean, if you take out the government spending, you probably are on a recession in a private economy. And that’s your focus on government, both fiscal and monetary support for the economy. So that’s the math. You have all these different roles.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I’d say management consulting is any of the other thing that least at that time was the other career trajectory, just my personality, more of a math oriented introvert. 2022 was a a down 19% I think in the s and p 500, but last year, 2023 core quality and quality value slowed, but quality growth boomed somewhat different.

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Clever Girl Finance

OCTOBER 17, 2023

According to Investopedia, for a single filer earning $45,000 in 2023 , you’ll be taxed about $5,207 total: 10% on your first $11,000 = $1100 12% on the amount between $11,001 and $44,725 = $4047 22% on the amount between $44,726 and $45,000 = $60 As you can see, most of your income falls into the lower 10% or 12% brackets. Become a tutor.

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Good Financial Cents

JUNE 25, 2023

Anyone with an Internet connection can participate in the cryptocurrency economy. There will only ever be 21 million created (about 19 million exist as of June 2023 ). Every single Bitcoin transaction that has taken place is tracked in this public database. Bitcoin is in limited supply.

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MARCH 15, 2023

You must also possess solid math and cash-handling skills and be able to multitask. As of 2023, the typical salary for a Customer Service Executive in the United States is between $203,763 and $270,525 annually – with an average of $235,950. What is the highest salary in customer service?

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

RITHOLTZ: People forget that when they see a single year like 2022, and they really forget that in a year like 2023, where everything is going up, I mean, other than gold, what hasn’t been going up this year? Yes, the economy can clearly keep roaring along, which we’ve seen. DAVIS: That’s exactly right. DAVIS: It is not.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 18, 2024

And at the time when I graduated the economy, it was very good. Barry Ritholtz : Oh, so booming economy, 50 grand in the nineties for right outta college. What led them in 2023 to say, all right, we want the whole thing. 00:40:26 [Speaker Changed] They, they know, they know math, they know math. What year was that?

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The Big Picture

APRIL 29, 2023

Institutional Investor ) • Bringing the lofty ideas of pure math down to earth : There is no shortage of popular books and lectures on math—but they can only teach us so much. ( MIT Technology Review ) • How the World Is Spending $1.1 MIT Technology Review ) • How the World Is Spending $1.1 How the World Is Spending $1.1

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

RITHOLTZ: Why is it not surprising that a math nerd is also a placekicker? We’ve got students in our program that have their first full time offer with alternative investment firms, that will graduate in 2023, in May. But really, even that experience was about building great friends that I played football with. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Carson Wealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The economy created 353,000 jobs in January, surprising to the upside. Job gains continue to support income growth, which in turn supports consumer spending and the overall economy. For a broad view of our expectations for the economy, stocks, and bonds in 2024, download our 2024 Market Outlook. Stocks gained 19.6% million.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 27, 2023

The economy wasn’t as dependent on the equity markets as necessarily as it is today, as we saw post ’08. So that not shorting financial institutions kind of brings us forward to what’s been going on in the regional banks in 2023. And so it’s one of these things that math works. But the Fed stepped in.

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Good Financial Cents

APRIL 19, 2023

Thanks to the likes of Airbnb and others, these sharing economy services have shown us it’s not so scary! The math when paying down debt is simple – if your loan is currently at 7% and you refinance at 3%, that’s equivalent to a 4% return on your money! So let me ask – how do you feel about renting out your car?

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The Big Picture

JULY 28, 2023

economy has been recovering better than other countries from the worldwide instability and rising prices brought on by the Covid pandemic. ” My math is dropping from 9% to 3% is a decrease, but… How about right/wrong track? Previously : “Glass Half-Empty” Investors (May 8, 2023) Is Partisanship Driving Consumer Sentiment?

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Aleph

JANUARY 14, 2023

2023 is merely a sequel to 2022, already anticipating the FOMC stopping Jan 13, 2023 Experts Spent Years ‘Angst-ing’ Over Value. Jan 11, 2023 Barbarians Are at Grayscale’s Gates. pe_glut Jan 10, 2023 Monte Carlo Failures Aren’t Plane Crashes [link] Attempts to distinguish between meeting needs and wants.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 8, 2024

I’d been ranked i i back in the seventies, if you can do the math. Your real business is having the best perspective of what is happening this moment in the economy. So, so let’s talk a little bit about the state of the economy today. So at that point, I had a pretty big career. Your side hustle. Really interesting.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 17, 2023

This summer’s economy is defying the odds. New York Times ) • Bond Yield Hits Highest Since 2008, Adding Pressure to Borrowing Costs : Bets that interest rates will fall have suppressed 10-year yields for most of 2023, but analysts warn that may be changing. My morning train WFH reads: • What recession?

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

I would say the thing that connects them is just voracious curiosity about the world of politics and, you know, economies and trying to make sense out of it. And yet we bounced back in 2023 with one of our best years in the history of the firm, right? So here’s the math, Barry. You know, all of these things.

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The Better Letter

JANUARY 11, 2024

The economy, the markets, and the world-at-large provide unlimited fodder for them. That’s why the markets are much more of a mind game than a math game. And that’s why markets will always be exceedingly hard, even when the math seems easy or the future seems certain. percent in 2023. ” Nobody does.

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The Big Picture

MAY 16, 2023

” If I, if the president ever, this is like a blog post I wrote when the President tweets about the economy, the market will move. So this is the math that I applied. So think about this, do the math. LINDZON: But that math, if you really put it in a calculator … RITHOLTZ: Becomes a problem. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Aleph

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Feb 16, 2023 Podcast Companies, Once Walking on Air, Feel the Strain of Gravity [link] My kids ask me to do a podcast. Feb 15, 2023 One of the world’s richest families was thrust into the spotlight by a surprising share sale from one of its own members [link] You need a liquidity plan, akin to what a private real estate fund does.

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Discipline Funds

MARCH 29, 2024

But the other key element of this is that the Fed wants to bring the economy back to a normal altitude now that the turbulence is dying down. Add in the fact that house prices haven’t budged much and the math on 6% mortgages still remains ugly. That was the rate where the cost of a mortgage was just too much for most people.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 29, 2024

These dumped a ton of cash into the economy all at once in 2020 and 2021. It has since rebounded in 2H ’22, 2023, and 2024; 2. The basic maths is a shortage of qualified workers (or even bodies to put to work) equals rising wages. CARES Act II was another $800 billion; CARES Act III was nearly 1.8

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The Big Picture

MAY 30, 2024

Simultaneously with sending those to my editor, an email arrives asking: “ If the economy is so robust, how do you explain all of these restaurant closings ?!” In 2023, openings were up 2% versus 2019, a modest increase compared to before the lockdowns. Even an accurate list of closures tells you little about the state of the economy.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 7, 2025

The interlinkages between women, our education policy, labor force, productivity, and again, ultimately the growth of the economy. But there’s such a difference between how they operate the economy and, and especially the financial sector. What do we do about that that costs the US United States GDP growth in the summer months.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2022

RITHOLTZ: So 5% funds rate, what does that do to the economy? And I think in 2023, we’ll have a better handle on this situation. I mean, just to keep at these rates to 2023 will cause the second worst collapse of the housing market in the postwar period. SIEGEL: Yeah. RITHOLTZ: So we’ll be at 5%. So two questions.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 17, 2025

It’ll reduce new company formation, it’ll make us borrowing costs skyrocket, it’ll devalue the US dollar, it’s gonna cause rampant inflation and it will act as a drag on the overall economy. Wasn’t the Excel spreadsheet error, which changed their math. And their economy seems to be doing just fine.

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