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Surprise! California’s 40 Qs of Rising Minimum Wage & Fast Food Industry Growth (Beating USA)

The Big Picture

To prove their point, a number of friendly commentators, academics, and hired guns all wrote endless white papers, Op-Eds and commentaries. But they made one super-sized mistake: they cheated with the numbers. ” A bit of quick math: 726,600/0.987 = 736,170 (starting point). 726,600 – 736,170 = -9,570.

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (June 22-23)

Nerd's Eye View

Also in industry news this week: A recent survey indicates that financial advisors continue to move towards ETFs and away from mutual funds when it comes to client portfolio recommendations, though a majority of advisors continue to see a role for active management in the investment management process A former employee has filed a lawsuit alleging (..)

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50% Risk-free Annual Returns

The Big Picture

There is a fascinating long-form article in the Washington Post about the murder of an investigative reporter who was looking into a Ponzi scheme in Las Vegas last year. emphasis added) The red flags were there for anyone who could put their greed aside and simply focus on the math.

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What To Do When The Bitcoin Math Doesn't Math

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

That number is from a Bankrate article I found on a Google search. I'd be curious to hear if anyone else does the same search and finds a different number of lost coins. First, is the math right based on my numbers? That roughly two million Bitcoin is actually more than 10% because approximately 3.8

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Know Thyself

Getting Your Financial Ducks In A Row

Lack of Understanding of the Numbers – when presented with the outcome of financial calculators, many of us consider whatever calculations were done in the background to be tantamount to magic. There’s no shame in admitting that factor – for a lot of us, math can be very tough.

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Trying To Find The Optimal Number Of Stocks To Own

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

A couple of different articles that I think can weave together for a blog post. 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. Learning the difference can help know when to hold on and when to sell.

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You can’t handle the truth – Do the Math on the 2023 Bull Market

David Nelson

Even with that as a continued threat, evidence continues to mount that an ever-rising number of companies are starting to participate in the most hated bull market of my career. Do the Math Let’s do the math. At the time of this article some funds managed by David were long AAPL, MSFT, GOOGL, AMZN & NVDA

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