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10 Biggest Ideas in “How NOT to Invest”

The Big Picture

What does the endless stream of news, social media, TikToks, Tweets, magazines, and television do to our ability to make good decisions? Economic Innumeracy : Some individuals experience math anxiety, but it only takes a bit of insight to navigate the many ways numbers can mislead us. Why are we constantly prodded to take action now!

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

The Big Picture

” A bit of quick math: 726,600/0.987 = 736,170 (starting point). Journal (restaurant) reporter who inappropriately used non-seasonally adjusted numbers to make the following claim : “California had 726,600 people working in fast-food and other limited-service eateries in January [2024], down 1.3% 726,600 – 736,170 = -9,570.

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10 Weekend Reads

The Big Picture

KCP Group ). • Your Career Is Just One-Eighth of Your Life : Five pieces of career advice, shaped by economics, psychology, and a little bit of existential math. ( When the brain encodes memories as positive or negative, one molecule determines which way they will go. ( Quanta Magazine ). • The Atlantic ). •

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10 Monday AM Reads

The Big Picture

But most of all, it was just simple maths according to Druck. Quanta Magazine ) • Why More Americans Are Using Fake License Plates and Getting Away : With It The old system of traffic control is breaking down. The easy part is over. The first was don’t lose money. I’m a sore loser,” he said. “I I don’t like to lose.”

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10 Monday AM Reads

The Big Picture

My back-to-work morning train WFH reads: • Ken Griffin’s Hand-Picked Math Prodigy Runs Market-Making Empire : Citadel Securities CEO Peng Zhao left for college at age 14, caught Griffin’s eye early in his career and built systems now mopping up market share. Is an alternative possible? (

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Transcript: Jonathan Clements

The Big Picture

You, you grow up in, in London, you graduate Cambridge and you start at Euro Money Magazine in, in London. And that’s when I decided to move to New York City and I joined Forbes Magazine as a glorified fact checker and immediately doubled my salary moving from London. I got a piece coming out in the a RP magazine.

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Worried about your future Social Security benefits? Fleshing out current concerns and common myths.

Yardley Wealth Management

I had the opportunity to share my thoughts on Social Security with Tracey Longo at Financial Advisor Magazine for her article Advisors Concerned As Covid Speeds Projected Social Security Shortfall. While there always seems to be a future funding shortfall for Social Security, it’s a political problem, not a math problem.