International College of Financial Planning

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Teaching children about money management, budgeting, and essential financial principles such as saving, investing, and debt will significantly enhance their ability to make wise financial choices as they grow up. As children mature, they can be introduced to more complex ideas such as investments, insurance, and managing credit.

Education 40

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The Big Picture

MAY 30, 2023

I had an economics lesson, I had a life lesson, I had an epiphany, I had a race relations lesson, I had a self-esteem and confidence lesson. Being broke is economic, but being poor is a disabling frame of mind, a depressed condition of your spirit. It’s home economics class, doesn’t exist anymore. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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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. And it’s a critical need.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 6, 2023

You know, a rich life, most people expect a money book to start with a chapter on budgets. We’re going to get a budget. Everybody hates the word budget. Everybody hates the word budget. I hate budgets myself. It’s much deeper than math. That’s virtually every money book. RITHOLTZ: Buzzkill.

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Brown Advisory

JUNE 16, 2022

We discount each year at our 10% minimum weighted average cost of capital (WACC) and some infinite series maths gives us the basis for some rough approximations 2. Specifically, economics has a half-life of 9.4 Maths has a long half-life and a DCF correctly done accounts for inflation. Higher inflation leads to false growth.

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Gen Y Planning

AUGUST 1, 2022

A 2022 Houzz & Home survey uncovered that homeowners who plan on high-budget renos plan to spend $75,000 on their projects. That requires a little more math (or a HELOC calculator , whichever you prefer). While every job is different depending on your area and aspirations, here are some national figures to consider.

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Mr. Money Mustache

JANUARY 27, 2022

And since 2022 is becoming a year of interesting financial changes, it’s time to spark things up again, go back to our roots, and start covering some of the many subjects that are cropping up in this latest incarnation of our economic world. So I did the math on that too**. What would you do in the following situation?

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Abnormal Returns

DECEMBER 8, 2024

on.ft.com) What it took to rebuild Notre Dame (nytimes.com) Budgeting The math on any additional tax cuts is tough. prospect.org) Want to cut the federal budget deficit? donmoynihan.substack.com) Climate policy IS economic policy. nytimes.com) The economic schedule for the coming week.

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Clever Girl Finance

OCTOBER 30, 2023

But if you don’t mind the work, it’s one of the best work from home jobs for people who love math. You will need a bachelor’s and master’s degree in a field such as economics or computer science and excellent research, data analytics, roadmapping and prioritization skills. Fancy a job as a product manager to earn some decent money?

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

SEIDES: Yeah, I wouldn’t measure it in terms of economic returns. And what’s their budget like a fraction of it, right? RITHOLTZ: So hold the duration risk aside with those two, but just for an investor in treasuries, I know you’ve done the math before. So, it cost the firm $320,000, well worth every penny?

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Good Financial Cents

APRIL 19, 2023

Building multiple passive income streams has an additional benefit in the short term: it can make you more resilient and better able to weather economic shocks, such as what was experienced with the past housing crisis and global pandemic. Rental car agencies (Enterprise, Avis, Budget, etc.) This is your nest egg. Think about it.

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Mish Talk

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

For example, there were alleged budget surpluses in four consecutive years, 1998 through 2001. Yet debt only fell once, in the year 2000, by 113.875 billion vs a purported budget surplus of $236.241 billion. That amount is called off-budget. 2022 Math The 2021 year end debt was $29.621 trillion. Here's the long answer.

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Budgeting Math Economics Accounting 200

The Big Picture

MARCH 21, 2023

Everything was the same except, Chicago had in its budget to give me money for airfare to go visit. My mom was a math teacher so — RITHOLTZ: Okay. It’s probably the most important part of what we do in the macro side, with economic trends, not just price trends, being a relatively recent innovation and super important.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

That’s less than one 100th of 1% of the annual budget. So here’s the math, Barry. We’re all, I mean, it’s like a Bloomberg Stream, constantly sharing news analysis, politics, economics, company specific venture capital, because we care. So what we envision is, think of a four oh one K from birth.

Investing 246

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The Big Picture

JUNE 3, 2024

Jeffrey Sherman : Well, what it was was, so I, as I said, with applications, there’s many applications of math, and the usually obvious one is physics. Barry Ritholtz : It seems that some people are math people and some people are not. The, the math came easier. And I really hated physics, really. It’s so true.

Math 147

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 1, 2018

It doesn’t manage for quarter-to-quarter earnings, provide earnings guidance, or have budgets and strategic plans at the parent company, though some of the subsidiaries do. Buffett noted that the math of the buyback would get even better if Apple’s shares went down (but not its intrinsic value), something people often misunderstand.

Assets 52

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 1, 2018

It doesn’t manage for quarter-to-quarter earnings, provide earnings guidance, or have budgets and strategic plans at the parent company, though some of the subsidiaries do. Buffett noted that the math of the buyback would get even better if Apple’s shares went down (but not its intrinsic value), something people often misunderstand.

Assets 52

Assets Investing Investments Insurance 52

David Nelson

AUGUST 8, 2022

The Penn Wharton Budget Model Summary: Summary: PWBM and CBO find an almost identical impact of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (“IRA”) on the budget, with small differences stemming from the timing of the corporate minimum tax revenue. IBM Stock Buybacks since 2008 – Do the Math. Even Senator Sanders sees it.

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The Big Picture

MAY 2, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So wait, you’re, I’m trying to do the math, if you were 24 in ‘08, so you got this watch in 2000, 99? ANNOUNCER: Geopolitical risk, changing regulation, economic uncertainty, EY can help you identify the risks that matter. ANNOUNCER: Geopolitical risk, changing regulation, economic uncertainty.

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Aleph

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Now she’s leading a push to legalize gambling in Texas [link] Legal gambling leaves society as a whole worse off Feb 16, 2023 As the country emerges from a pandemic that left children zoning out over Zoom, parents are turning to the turbocharged “Russian math” method to give their kids an academic edge.

Banking 59

Banking Healthcare Government Budgeting 59

The Big Picture

OCTOBER 3, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Gary Cohn, Director of the National Economic Council, President of Goldman Sachs , is below. You’re doing a lot of math in your head on the Fly. I’m doing, I’m doing an awful lot of math in my head on the fly. Your chief economic advisor to the president.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 17, 2025

Professor Stephanie Kelton teaches Public Policy and Economics at SUNY Stony Brook. You get a bachelor’s, a BA and a BS in Economics and Business at California Sacramento, then University of Cambridge, master’s in Philosophy and Economics, then a PhD in economics at the New School. I happened to pick that one.

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