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At The Money: Behavior Beats Intelligence

The Big Picture

Morgan Housel Finance types tend to focus on attributes like intelligence, math skills and computer programming. I think one analogy here would be think about health and medicine. You want to say, look, I hope to retire in about 20 years and maybe I’ll be in a position to sell part of my portfolio. None of it matters.

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Transcript: Linda Gibson, CEO PGIM Quantitative Solutions

The Big Picture

She has a really fascinating background, very eclectic, a combination of math and law. You, you get a, a BS in Mathematics and a JD from Boston University Math and Law. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child. I didn’t get an advanced degree in math. Not the usual combination. What happened?

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$30 an Hour Is How Much a Year?

Good Financial Cents

Calculation Breakdown Let’s break down the math to find out how much you could earn annually with a $30 hourly wage: Consider an average workweek of 40 hours and an average year consisting of 52 weeks. Let’s do math again! Retirement/Savings $832.00 Nuclear medicine technologists $32.91 Utilities $300.00

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Transcript: Marcus Shaw

The Big Picture

My dad was a naval officer who retired shortly before I was born. What did your dad retire from doing? He retired and went to work at the Library of Congress as personnel. RITHOLTZ: Why is it not surprising that a math nerd is also a placekicker? Tell us about those experiences. So my dad is actually from Mississippi.

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Transcript: Ilana Weinstein

The Big Picture

.” It’s really helpful to have had five other meetings with people who sit at analogous funds that had losses that were just as big, and in fact, they may have contributed to those losses more and be able to tell him, first off, your fund, just by my math, has a $250 million management fee. RITHOLTZ: People will figure out.

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Two Years Without Health Insurance (and What I’m Doing Now)

Mr. Money Mustache

So I decided to take some action, by doing the math for myself using a spreadsheet. As a customer, you pay for a monthly subscription (somewhere around $100), and in exchange you get unlimited access to super elite, personalized medicine for the vast majority of your medical needs. It’s simpler, cheaper and more flexible. Conclusion.

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Transcript: Gretchen Morgenson

The Big Picture

But the doctors that I have spoken to in emergency medicine say that’s absolutely not the case. MORGENSON: This is a $64 trillion question, Barry, and I would love for you to ask every State Attorney General, for instance, why haven’t you gone after for-profit medicine? We’re going to help you make more money.

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