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Transcript: Angus Deaton

Barry Ritholtz

Healthcare minimum wage. So when I was at this very fancy private school that I was at as a kid, I did math because it gave me a huge amount of free time to do the things I really cared about. But when I got to Cambridge, you know, the math was sort of serious there. So, you know, I took my math into statistics and things.

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Will 5G Be Secure Enough During Early Deployments?

PYMNTS

As retailers, payments providers and consumers prepare for the coming 5G world, there remain concerns about how well that mobile network technology will protect consumer privacy and security. And that’s why some researchers and mobile technology observers are sounding what amounts to preemptive alarm about 5G. 5G Security Holes?

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Moderna Solved The Supply Chain Problem, But Will Consumers Embrace A COVID-19 Vaccine?

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However, a highly effective vaccine that doesn’t require specialized transportation or storage might change the math on distributing the substance more widely and quickly. That’s either out of choice or due to a lack of technology to access other options. Consumers’ Complicated Relationship to a Vaccine .

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Negotiation for Physicians

Adam Kae

You'll need to do some math to understand: where your breakeven is. Invest more in new technology? Models, Forecasts, Calculations, Oh My! how many of your patients are in-network. how much your rate should increase to profit more for your practice. Think about what your practice's goals are. Do you want to grow more? Pay off debt?

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The Vicious Circle Of Physical Retail Meets The Virtuous Circle of Digital

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In May, I made the case that we were witnessing what math geeks call a jump discontinuity, a sharp and distinct break from the past and an irreversible shift — a quantum leap — to something new. As hard and as fast as pharma companies are working, it will take time for a vaccine to be approved and then distributed to healthcare providers.

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Best of IdeaCast 2022

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And here’s what he told us: THOMAS ZURBUCHEN: Every me, when I came in as a leader in my position, I basically asked that every mission has at least one technology that is new. What NASA does really blows my mind in part because I’m a words person, not a math and science person. ALISON BEARD: I really love that episode too.

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

Barry Ritholtz

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. Two reasons. And it’s a critical need.