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

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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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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

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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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Divestment shortfall: Centre has math ready

CFO News

In the February budget, the central government marked down the disinvestment target to ₹50,000 crore from ₹65,000 crore budgeted initially. It has managed to raise ₹31,107 crore so far.

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Dollars Are For Spending & Investing, Not Saving

Barry Ritholtz

Whether it’s a few decades or a century, the math works the same. Hey, what a very different outcome than suggesting a loss of purchasing power — if you understand money and math, you have actually gained purchasing power. And over the past few centuries, those returns have greatly exceeded inflation.

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Beyond the numbers: What teaching shortages look like in practice

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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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