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10 Biggest Ideas in “How NOT to Invest”

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The challenge in writing How NOT to Invest was organizing a large number of ideas, many of which were only loosely connected, into something coherent, understandable, and, most importantly, readable. What does the endless stream of news, social media, TikToks, Tweets, magazines, and television do to our ability to make good decisions?

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

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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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10 Weekend Reads

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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

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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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Transcript: Jonathan Clements

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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. Let, let’s get a little background for you.

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Transcript: Brian Higgins, King Street

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I’m good at math and science and you know, I always had an idea what go into business, but I felt that electrical engineering would be a good foundation. And so there was a number of less liquid markets that made for quite wide spreads. And you know, I think ultimately there was a number of opportunities that came out.

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

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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. New York is number one. Two reasons.

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