Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 1, 2025

Or why we need less math in music theory. ( Tablet ) see also Welcome to the New Military-Industrial Complex. That would be absurd, no? Each sentence should have its own organic length, unconnected to what came before or goes after. So why doesnt our music do that? Morgan , where she is co-head of commercial banking.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 15, 2022

One seventh-grade math teacher at the school livestreams to the three other schools daily and travels to those schools for in-person instruction once a week. and Edgenuity Inc.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2020

We take a similar attitude when it comes basic math and science — but when it comes to financial literacy, only 21 states require financial education, Dr. Annamaria Lusardi recently told Karen Webster. But with 2020’s economic instability in full swing, no one is arguing against helping Americans run their financial lives better.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Most economic downturns hit lower-income Americans hardest, but this time is different. Wall Street Journal ) • From Math Camp to Handcuffs: FTX’s Downfall Was an Arc of Brotherhood and Betrayal : Gary Wang and Sam Bankman-Fried are offering dueling accounts of the FTX fiasco and of who’s ultimately to blame.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 1, 2023

But most of all, it was just simple maths according to Druck. The easy part is over. Barron’s ) • The Bear Market’s Survivors Share Their Biggest Lessons : With the S&P 500 in the longest bear market since 1973, individual investors maneuver differently from just months ago. The first was don’t lose money. I don’t like to lose.”

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Nerd's Eye View

APRIL 12, 2023

Notably, Historical and Regime-Based Monte Carlo models outperformed Traditional and Reduced-CMA models not only in general, but also throughout most of the individual time periods tested, as they had less error across many types of economic and market conditions.

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Global Finance

JUNE 4, 2024

The debate can be heated, but many impartial observers believe that it mostly comes down to this math: Governments fear the real or potential loss of tax revenue. It has been the target of lawsuits filed by groups running the gamut from truckers and Uber drivers to freelance journalists.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

It’s All Math, All The Way Down. It’s all mathematics, and very high-level probability and statistics — math used in a different way than it ever has been. This is similarly new mathematical ground, which means it needs to be thoughtfully explored — and math, at base, makes a lot people nervous. Data is not centered.

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CFO Talks

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

However, my commerce teacher noticed my aptitude for math and saw potential in me for a different path. My interest in finance began unexpectedly in high school. After finishing primary school, I initially chose needlework in my first year of high school.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The math implies that 87 million users were inactive. News came this week that the largest mobile operator in India, Reliance Jio , is seeing some headwinds in its active user base – a subset of the total user base of nearly 397 million individuals.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 3, 2023

They are far less concerned about how well students learn to read, write, and do math than with turning them into zealous advocates for their pet causes. A regular columnist for Forbes.com, Leef was book review editor of The Freeman, published by the Foundation for Economic Education, from 1996 to 2012.

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Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

This sentiment is echoed by AI Now, a research institute, which asserts that “AI is now firmly positioned as a critical strategic technology for the geopolitical and economic ambitions of nation-states.” These advancements have thrust AI into the heart of national security and geopolitical discussions.

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The Finance Weekly

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

A study by the University of Baltimore and Excel-based FP&A company, , DataRails , lays out the full economic costs of businesses sticking with manually prepared financial reports. Breaking down the Math. This number represents how much of an economic uplift could occur “if FP&A departments hit a conservative 0.1%

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 23, 2023

” That poor belief system has disadvantaged America — it has made us economically weaker, prevented the country from performing basic maintenance on its infrastructure, and generally made it a harsher place to live. Note that we undertook much of the work anyway (airports, electrical grid, roads, etc.),

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

“Those differences are the result of several factors, but two stand out: the shape of the retail landscape, including the maturity of the online channel in each country were paramount to be in a position to sell toys to consumers; and a combination of cultural and economic strength of each country.”.

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CFO Talks

JANUARY 29, 2025

My family wanted me to do medicine as i was good at both math’s and science, but finance was where my heart was. My ideal superpower will be instant financial foresight – the ability to accurately predict market trends and economic shifts. It was then that i new finance was my go-to carrier choice.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

We may be catching a glimpse of economic life beyond the pandemic. Added Michael Miebach , Mastercard CEO, current trends echo the past: “What we've seen in previous challenged periods in terms of economic outlook. The Congressional Budget Office said on Monday (Feb. in a downturn, debit is. generally preferred.”

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 24, 2024

Morgan Housel Finance types tend to focus on attributes like intelligence, math skills and computer programming. You can know everything about math and data and markets, but if you don’t control your sense of greed and fear and you’re managing uncertainty in your behavior, none of it matters. None of it matters.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

In an interview with Lynn Parramore of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Nomi Prins takes up and extends the argument that she has made over a series of books, that central bankers are ever-more administering policies that are good for the markets but very bad for the real economy and real people. economy and Wall Street.

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The Charity CFO

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Doing some simple math (25% x 12 months = 3 months), we can safely say that you should start with a goal of at least 3 months of expenses as your operating reserve. What’s the economic health of your community? . Once you reach that goal, keep saving and increase that reserve to 6 months of operating expenses.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2017

There’s another rate hike in the offing this year, said Fed watchers (and the Fed itself), with the caveat, as always, of economic growth. additional annual charge on every $1,000 in borrowings, if you follow the simple math. It is showing resilience.”. Credit card debt becomes more expensive, with a $2.50

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CFO Thought Leader

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

In the mid-2000s, the world’s attention increasingly began to focus on Asia, attracted not just by the region’s rapid economic growth but also by the 2008 Beijing Olympics. It was within this atmosphere of excitement and potential that Joey Wong made a very pivotal career decision. Having grown up in Los Angeles after her family […]

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

My Two-for-Tuesday morning train WFH reads: • Stock Pickers Never Had a Chance Against Hard Math of the Market : In years like this one, when just a few big companies outperform, it’s hard to assemble a winning portfolio. The leading economic indicators show the U.S. The approach that works the best is also the one most people ignore.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 21, 2020

Especially when it comes to legislation, and when it comes to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) navigating a precarious economic landscape. You can do the math and see that dozens and dozens of smaller firms could have benefitted from the help. The burger and shake giant later returned the funds.

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The Charity CFO

JANUARY 17, 2022

You can grasp nonprofit accounting basics in just a few minutes, even if you’ve never taken an accounting course (and even if you hated math in high school). Revenue is inflows that increase economic wealth. Expenses are outflows of cash that decrease economic wealth. Donations of goods (food, clothing, supplies).

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PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2019

The Math Behind DoorDash’s Subscription Service. Building an economically viable subscription service presented a number of hurdles, however, and Ruth said it was tricky to make DashPass sustainable yet profitable. “We We wanted to make sure the economics did work, that we were profitable on every single delivery.

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Future CFO

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

I can vividly remember my first high school economics class, that was when I first realized that math wasn’t only theoretical. It provided an in-depth understanding of emerging markets including consumer needs across culture, languages, and economic landscape.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2017

Though the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico remains in a fiscal crisis — burdened with more than $70 billion of debt and a cut to corporate tax breaks — Puerto Rican officials are looking to technology and entrepreneurship as part of a new economic development plan, TechCrunch reported.

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The Charity CFO

MARCH 21, 2024

For example, over the last 10-12 years, the economic environment has been rather friendly. In essence, because the economic environment has been favorable, a non-profit can take time figuring out where the group wants to spend its time. Then it comes down to the math of the conversions.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

They are the very businesses that make America’s cities, towns and urban centers lively and vibrant and interesting — and make our communities culturally, socially and economically strong. Doing The Math. Most of the SMBs we asked aren’t new to the world. It may not be so clear-cut.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2016

“This is an attempt to make the economics attractive enough that the paid content brands — e.g., Hulu and HBO — allow users to manage their subscriptions through the app stores. The math will essentially be what is the potential lift in buyers versus the 15 percent cost,” Dengel said.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2016

More often than not, the discussions revolve around economic redistribution as some kind of zero-sum game between the haves and have-nots — the side with the most money is the side that wins. percent in 2014 from just 8.8 percent in 2009).

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

Evans, chief economist and founder at Global Economics Group, and a quartet of CEOs sat down to discuss how commerce has been wending its way speedily across borders. People like to believe algorithms are neutral — and purely rational mathematical deductions — when, in fact, they are man-made models codified by math.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2019

When it comes to objects from mythology – well, you can certainly do the math on that one. An analysis from the Foundation for Economic Education dug into that issue, finding the sword’s deeper value to be truly lacking. There is nothing about social organization that requires this to be true,” that analysis said.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2017

If these people were offered something more palatable, what kind of economic opportunity would that open for them? Maybe artificial intelligence will be the key to doing the math and extrapolating the data to make a specific offering to each potential customer. Where could they shop, what could they do? These are lost opportunities.”.

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VCFO

DECEMBER 10, 2021

You can do your own math on what this will mean to you. There is significant debate on the causes with two [mainstream] competing theories – Keynesian and Monetarist Economics. It won’t be in one line called inflation but will be spread out across your income statement in increased costs for labor, materials, and opex.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 20, 2024

As it turns out, there are ways you can use data to your advantage, even if you’re not a math wizard. Jim O’Shaugnessy : Momentum is really interesting because academics hate it because there is underlying economic reason why it should make sense – but it does. We are looking historically at ideas that make economic sense, right?

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