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America’s Enormous Math Mistake’s Mistake

Barry Ritholtz

Call it ” ‘ America’s Enormous Math Mistake’s Mistake. Since 2008, the Census Bureau has included government transfers in its Supplemental Poverty Measure. seconds to find 253,000,000 results on Google showing exactly how the government measures this. ” Was this ignorance? Wiifull misrepresentation? Sheer stupidity?

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10 Biggest Ideas in “How NOT to Invest”

Barry Ritholtz

Economic Innumeracy : Some individuals experience math anxiety, but it only takes a bit of insight to navigate the many ways numbers can mislead us. We evolved in an arithmetic world, so we are unprepared for the exponential math of finance. Investing is simple but hard, and therein lies our challenge. Bad Numbers : 4.

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Do The Math: COVID Shows How Easily The Healthcare System Is Overwhelmed

PYMNTS

Rigorous Math Vs. Calendar Gazing. So the math to match supply and demand has to be very, very rigorous. Each asset had its supply-demand math done perfectly. “Coming out of this, I would imagine that health systems will become much more analytical and rigorous about how they think through capacity,” he predicted.

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CFO Corner With Thryv Holdings’ Paul Rouse

Global Finance

And dont think its all about math; its more about strategy. GF: What advice do you have for aspiring CFOs? Rouse: Its not for the faint of heart! You need to have the stomach for it. Its very stressful, but also highly rewarding. I havent done a spreadsheet in 20 years.

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Confessions of an FP&A-holic: 7 Lessons I Wish I Knew Earlier

Fpanda Club

Moreover, according to various studies, the better we are at crunching numbers and math, the more we fail at analyzing patterns that contradict our views. However, when it comes to our own knowledge and opinions, we rarely do this. Indeed, FP&A guys are good candidates to fall into this trap.

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Deriving Options

Corporate Finance

And while the video does a good job of explaining option basics, it also discusses some of the beauty behind the math. A really interesting Veritasium video walks through a brief history of options and the mathematics behind the Black-Scholes model.

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New Math: Walmart+ Doesn’t Equal Amazon Prime

PYMNTS

Walmart watchers are out in force today with the launch of subscription service Walmart+. While it has been widely touted as a hedge against Amazon Prime’s runaway growth, when the two programs are stacked side by side, something doesn’t add up.

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