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Transcript: Christine Phillpotts, Ariel Investments

Barry Ritholtz

Was finance and investing always part of the plan? And essentially decided to pivot from that original plan because it became clear to me as I got older that to really make a living as a concert pianist, you need to be the top 1% in the world. And I did a lot of options math, which I thought was interesting.

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Transcript: Stephanie Kelton on US Fiscal Policy and the ‘Deficit Myth’

Barry Ritholtz

What, what was the original plan Stephanie Kelton : To be a dentist. Wasn’t the Excel spreadsheet error, which changed their math. So we all try shoving what money we do have into the goods pipeline and goods have to be manufactured and shipped. And your plan is to completely offset that spending with new revenue.

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Transcript: Tom Barkin, Richmond Federal Reserve President & CEO

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What was the original career plan? And when I went there I was gonna be a lawyer and I was gonna major in mathematics and I took my freshman year math and that all went great. And it turned out that half of that class had been the US National Math team and they had all competed internationally and they knew stuff I didn’t.

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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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Mastercard Tackles ‘Greening’ Plastic Cards

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To push that goal, Mastercard — in partnership with the world’s three largest card manufacturers, Gemalto , Giesecke & Devrient and IDEMIA — has officially launched the Greener Payments Partnership to establish environmental best practices and reduce first-use PVC plastic in card manufacturing.

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Car Subscriptions Hit Pause As BMW, Audi Suspend Programs

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The top-tier $3,700-a-month plan is almost three times the cost of leasing an M5 sedan in the Nashville area,” The Verge calculated, noting that a down payment of $5,700 was required for a lease. At the same time, other manufacturers are moving ahead with their programs, including Porsche and Nissan. percent to $39,259.

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This FP&A Factor will Cost US Businesses $7,800,000,000 in 2022

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Breaking down the Math. Other examples are Lego using real time data to drive , revenue over the past few years, and the FP&A team at manufacturing company Chemours improving margins for industrial plants. Based on the findings, FP&A teams spend at least 2 hours each week on manual processes. How the Study was Conducted.