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Beyond the numbers: What teaching shortages look like in practice

CFO News Room

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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What Is The Most Important Number In The Universe?

The CFO Centre

Numbers matter. Our mathematical universe is constructed of numbers. From the speed of light to the parabolic curve of a free-kick in soccer, maths underpins the laws of the universe. We can also deconstruct our entire lives in numbers. The post What Is The Most Important Number In The Universe? Some we can see.

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What Is The Most Important Number In The Universe? Our Fractional CFOs Can Help You Figure It Out

The CFO Centre

Numbers matter. Our mathematical universe is constructed of numbers. From the speed of light to the parabolic curve of a free-kick in soccer, maths underpins the laws of the universe. We can also deconstruct our entire lives in numbers. Some we can see. Most we can’t.

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Why Hasn’t the California Globe Retracted Its Story?

Barry Ritholtz

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

Barry Ritholtz

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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MiB: Jeffrey Sherman, DoubleLine Deputy CIO

Barry Ritholtz

We discuss how he began as a math major but didn’t want to go into physics, engineering or academia, so finance was the next logical career option. Prior to joining DoubleLine in 2009, Sherman was a senior vice president at TCW Group Inc. He is host of the podcast The Sherman Show and a CFA charter holder.

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (June 22-23)

Nerd's Eye View

Also in industry news this week: A recent survey indicates that financial advisors continue to move towards ETFs and away from mutual funds when it comes to client portfolio recommendations, though a majority of advisors continue to see a role for active management in the investment management process A former employee has filed a lawsuit alleging (..)

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