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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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Math Problems

The Better Letter

The maths are exactly the same. These sorts of math problems are the focus of this week’s TBL. Math Problems As this TBL goes live, just 16 games and one day of the NCAA Tournament are in the books, yet my bracket is a mess. We notice the unlikelihood of 100 in a row because of the pattern. Thanks for reading.

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Wednesday links: narrative fallacies

Abnormal Returns

Strategy On the strange math of stock returns. sherwood.news) The number of existing homes for sales keeps rising. fortunesandfrictions.com) Betting on smart beta has generally not worked out well for investors. morningstar.com) Companies Uber ($UBER) is making progress towards becoming a 'super-app.'

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Why Hasn’t the California Globe Retracted Its Story?

The Big Picture

The Globe, amazingly, cannot even sum a column of five small numbers. Newsom and his staff including Brandon, are picking numbers and months to serve Newsom’s own false narrative. It was the Journal, then Hoover, then CABIA, that did all of the cherry-picking, and used a bad set of numbers to do it. That’s not even math.

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Seattle Redux: Misunderstanding Seasonal Adjustments

The Big Picture

Barry has written extensively about denominator blindness, i.e. throwing out a number without any context whatsoever. Well, the number is actually very close to the latter (1.470 million): So, 10k on 1.470 million is less than 1 percent — 0.68% to be exact. certain that the Journal got the number from BLS. But whatever.

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Saturday links: communities coming together

Abnormal Returns

bakadesuyo.com) Numbers are persuasive up to a point. npr.org) The math on farmed fish doesn't work. (wired.com) What happens when a connected device is no longer supported. arstechnica.com) In praise of taking photos without the help of AI. newyorker.com) Behavior Four ways to get smarter including 'Use base rates.'

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Personal finance links: paying for the life you want

Abnormal Returns

financialducksinarow.com) Retirement The math behind savings rates and retiring early. dariusforoux.com) Society New car prices are out of the reach of an increasing number of Americans. (thisisthetop.substack.com) Charlie wants to be a neobank for seniors. techcrunch.com) Medicare Nothing about Medicare is simple.

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