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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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How Xiaomi Does (Payments) Business In India

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The first is the assortment of the product options that are available online, and the second is the number of platforms. If I was to include the mobile site as well, those numbers would increase by another 10 percent. I think that will have a really strong impact in terms of driving the number of users to the platform.

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Transcript: Rick Rieder

Barry Ritholtz

And like I say, that’s part of why it’s translated to a number of people coming to BlackRock and be with me today. RIEDER: So I had known Larry Fink and Rob Caputo, our CEO and president, for a number of years. And you know, it’s been an honor to have a number of awards to it. So yeah, man, that was the idea.

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2:00PM Water Cooler 12/16/2022 | naked capitalism

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On a number of concessions McCarthy has made or is considering making to his conservative critics, he risks touching off a revolt from other ideological camps — especially moderate and Biden-district Republicans. If this fails, it can only be because you did not increase the number of infections enough! —

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