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Why Hasn’t the California Globe Retracted Its Story?

The Big Picture

The reality is that California lost over 2,500 fast food jobs since January 2024, when looking at seasonally adjusted data. The Globe, amazingly, cannot even sum a column of five small numbers. Newsom and his staff including Brandon, are picking numbers and months to serve Newsom’s own false narrative. That’s not even math.

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Weekly Market Insights – January 8, 2024

Cornerstone Financial Advisory

Weekly Market Insights : New Years Blues Stocks retreated in the first trading week of 2024, struggling a bit after a celebratory end to last year as investors second-guessed Fed signals and fretted over lingering inflation concerns. Source: YCharts.com, January 6, 2024. Thursday: Jobless Claims. Consumer Price Index.

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TikTokInvestors

The Big Picture

I doubt he’s run the real numbers of being invested in the stock market tax deferred with an additional company match. The Math Doesn’t Add Up ( Rolling Stone , January 24, 2024) How TikTok Is Wiring Gen Z’s Money Brain ( WSJ , May 4, 2024) _ 1.

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Bracketology (2024 Edition)

The Better Letter

Bracketology (2024 Edition) As my friend Mark Newfield likes to say , the Forecasters Hall of Fame has zero members. And about 60 percent of national champions are one of the four number one seeds. A roulette wheel hitting the same number seven times in a row ( one in three billion ). Thanks for visiting. And he’s right.

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Trying To Find The Optimal Number Of Stocks To Own

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

This article obviously favors more stocks but an interesting thing not said was at what number would it make sense to just flip from individual holdings to mutual funds and ETFs. In my opinion the diversification benefit hits diminishing returns pretty close to 40 individual holdings based on math if nothing else.

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10 Friday AM Reads

The Big Picture

The platform had punched above its weight in pure user numbers thanks to an unrivaled ability to both distribute real-time information and make expertise available. Combine these elements with your own critical faculty — to weed out the usual spam and bs — and it could feel like the only place online that really mattered.

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55 And No Savings Is Not Doomed

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

We've gone over the math before that starting as late as 55 can catch a lot of the way up if they can afford to save a very high percentage of their income. Obviously you can discount those numbers if you expect lower returns going forward.