PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

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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CFO News

JANUARY 8, 2023

CFOs must display agility, resilience, curiosity, imagination, people-centricity and a transformative mindset as well as heart, says the veteran finance honcho.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 29, 2023

Institutional Investor ) • Bringing the lofty ideas of pure math down to earth : There is no shortage of popular books and lectures on math—but they can only teach us so much. ( MIT Technology Review ) • How the World Is Spending $1.1

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 15, 2022

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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Numbers Math Education Budgeting 130

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 28, 2023

” My math is dropping from 9% to 3% is a decrease, but… How about right/wrong track? What about inflation, which peaked over a year ago and is now down to 3% on a year-over-year basis? 60% of respondents believe inflation is “continuing to increase.”

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Math Economics Forecasting Finance 98

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 11, 2023

Bloomberg ) • From Pepperoni Math to Nepo Babies, Summer Is for Interns : Your first experience at work is not often forgotten. ( Washington Post ) • Hamptons Partygoers Cast a Worried Eye on New York’s Future : Paulson, Catsimatidis among those at Southampton Hospital gala Party’s theme tied to Palm Beach, now home to many attending.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2016

The coming ascendence of augmented reality and virtual reality have long been article fodder for tech enthusiasts, gamers and retail watchers alike. And for good reason – the story of virtual and augmented reality makes for some great copy.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 25, 2023

Gaze, The Conversation, May 23, 2023 Math Professor Debunks the Dunning-Kruger Effect By Eric C. Griffiths Nature Human Behaviour, February 25 2021 See also : Debunking the Dunning-Kruger effect – the least skilled people know how much they don’t know, but everyone thinks they are better than average By Eric C.

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Math Finance Investments 128

Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 24, 2023

His philanthropy includes sitting on the board of directors of Paul Tudor Jones’ Robin Hood Foundation and Jim Simon’s Math for America. Borish also previously served as chief strategist for Quad Group LLC. He explains what the trading experience was like on Black Monday, 1987.

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Investments Math Risk Management Marketing 86

The CFO Centre

OCTOBER 13, 2021

From the speed of light to the parabolic curve of a free-kick in soccer, maths underpins the laws of the universe. Numbers matter. Our mathematical universe is constructed of numbers. Some we can see. Most we can’t. We can also deconstruct our entire lives in numbers. The average human lives for around 80 years – […].

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Numbers CFO Math Construction 59

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 19, 2023

How bad at math do you need to be to think that it’s only 5 stocks driving this market? Only 5 stocks driving markets?! Then why are Equal-weighted indices doing so well? Equal-weighted Nasdaq100 up 17% since the June lows for the market because “it’s only 5 stocks”? Recession is inevitable?

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Marketing Forecasting Math 115

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 16, 2023

Just a $20 Tip : The Brutal Math of Uber Eats and DoorDash Delivery drivers were hailed as pandemic heroes. Now it’s fighting back : The Netherlands’ most notorious conspiracy theorist is now in prison. ( Ars Technica ) • At FTX, Multimillion-Dollar Expenses Were Approved by Emoji : Report outlines control failures at the failed crypto firm.

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Math Investments Sales 111

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 1, 2023

But most of all, it was just simple maths according to Druck. The easy part is over. Barron’s ) • The Bear Market’s Survivors Share Their Biggest Lessons : With the S&P 500 in the longest bear market since 1973, individual investors maneuver differently from just months ago. The first was don’t lose money. I don’t like to lose.”

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Make sure you have the right math and language to explain results driven by direct and indirect marketing spend. As much as possible, CMOs must help their C-suite colleagues understand the math of marketing activities holistically and results throughout the full funnel. Build a tight relationship with your CEO and CFO.

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Nerd's Eye View

APRIL 12, 2023

When planning for retirement, it’s effectively impossible to precisely forecast the performance and timing of future investment returns, which in turn makes it challenging to accurately predict a plan’s success or failure.

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Forecasting Math Planning Economics 94

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Wall Street Journal ) • From Math Camp to Handcuffs: FTX’s Downfall Was an Arc of Brotherhood and Betrayal : Gary Wang and Sam Bankman-Fried are offering dueling accounts of the FTX fiasco and of who’s ultimately to blame. Most economic downturns hit lower-income Americans hardest, but this time is different. Here’s your investing playbook.

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The SaaS CFO

JUNE 4, 2019

Mix multi-year contracts, discounts, and churn into your internal pricing discussion, and you need a degree in math to determine the optimal pricing for you and your customer. SaaS Multi-year Pricing Discounts SaaS pricing can be a pretty complex subject.

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CFO Math 89

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Yet the fundamental math of bond returns bodes well for 2023, our columnist says. ( The bond market certainly DID NOT see the pandemic-induced inflation coming. ( A Wealth of Common Sense ) see also After a Terrible Year for Bonds, the Outlook Is Better : October capped their worst 12-month period ever, and the economy is under pressure.

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Math Economics Marketing Communication 122

Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 24, 2023

You need to understand how math, statistics and probabilities work. Pour yourself a mug of coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • The Evolution of Financial Advice. To be a successful investor you need to possess a number of different traits.

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Math Investments Advertising Securities 107

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

KCP Group ). • Your Career Is Just One-Eighth of Your Life : Five pieces of career advice, shaped by economics, psychology, and a little bit of existential math. ( Here are some of the most interesting things I found. ( The Atlantic ). •

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

It’s All Math, All The Way Down. It’s all mathematics, and very high-level probability and statistics — math used in a different way than it ever has been. This is similarly new mathematical ground, which means it needs to be thoughtfully explored — and math, at base, makes a lot people nervous.

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Math Technology Construction Numbers 68

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 20, 2023

But just do the math: Would you prefer to give up 67 basis points (RWM’s dollar-weighted average fee is ~0.67%) or would you prefer to give up 30% of your gains PLUS pay an annual 0.79% fee for the TJUL ETF? Giving up permanent gains to avoid impermanent drops seems like an awful exchange.

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Math Retail Planning Investments 74

PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2021

On each side of the equation, the math is simple. A surge in eCommerce returns driven by COVID-19-related policy changes is hurting retailers but helping logistics companies, the Financial Times reports.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

Gox bitcoin drama got a little more dramatic this week. As a quick refresher, Mt. Gox is the now-defunct bitcoin exchange that shuttered in February 2014 after a mysterious “glitch” caused $500 million worth of bitcoin to go missing. Those bitcoin – or at least most of them — have remained missing ever since.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Math, as it turns out, is doing more than making millions of teenagers unhappy over hard homework right now — it’s also making the world less democratic and egalitarian. In the wrong hands, mathematics can become a “WMD” — a weapon of math destruction. Cathy O’Neil does not hate math. I think that’s total bull—-.”.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 18, 2023

But, as a matter of math , if your preference for diversity and inclusion supersedes that of compositional merit or worthiness, you will necessarily get a repertoire that is lower in quality.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Cryptocurrencies — like bitcoin — are “produced by solving complex maths puzzles and governed by disparate online communities instead of a centralized body,” reports said. “The aim of the project is to show how an e-krona could be used by the general public,” Riksbank said.

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Currencies Banking Math Economics 105

Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 17, 2023

The joy of sets : Why won’t our artistic-literary establishment recognise that there’s mystery, beauty and humanity in maths? (up from 3.2% Wall Street Journal ) see also 5 unintended consequences of the EV revolution : EVs are going to change our cars — and how we drive. ( Prospect ). Longreads ) see also An Analysis of Deaths in U.S.

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Adam Kae

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Want to see the math yourself? While putting the finishing button-nose sprinkle on my snowman cookie, I started to compare the make vs buy differences in my head. So, I threw together this little comparison! Check out this Google Sheet: [link]. Want to make this cookie recipe? Here's what we used: , [link].

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2020

For us to bring our level of efficiency close to our peers, the math would tell you, we need to eliminate over $10 billion of expenses.” To repeat, there is nothing structurally different about Wells Fargo that should prevent us from being as efficient as our large peers, but we are far from it.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

It launched a brand new unit, called Training Trackers, to teach core science and math concepts with its middle school solution, LEGO® Education SPIKE ?Prime. The new unit will support in-person, virtual, and hybrid learning with a focus on core subjects to complete the science, art and math curriculum designed by the company.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2020

We take a similar attitude when it comes basic math and science — but when it comes to financial literacy, only 21 states require financial education, Dr. Annamaria Lusardi recently told Karen Webster. Money is also typically an issue. Often we hear: ‘We don’t have the money to buy the textbooks,’” Lusardi said.

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Education Math Economics Technology 103

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 15, 2023

My back-to-work morning train WFH reads: • Ken Griffin’s Hand-Picked Math Prodigy Runs Market-Making Empire : Citadel Securities CEO Peng Zhao left for college at age 14, caught Griffin’s eye early in his career and built systems now mopping up market share.

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Math Concentration Leverage Construction 59

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 31, 2023

Bloomberg ) • Elusive ‘Einstein’ Solves a Longstanding Math Problem : And it all began with a hobbyist “messing about and experimenting with shapes.” ( New York Times ) Be sure to check out our Masters in Business interview this weekend with Ken Kencel , founder and CEO of Churchill Asset Management.

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Banking Math Economics Securities 64

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Business Insider ) • Stop treating unemployment as a necessary evil to curb inflation : An economist explains why it’s time to rethink popular assumptions about layoffs. ( Vox ) see also If You Have to Have a Recession, Make It a Rolling One Mild slumps that ripple through the economy can slow inflation without putting too many people out of work.

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Math Investments Manufacturing Technology 69

Nerd's Eye View

MARCH 21, 2023

And be certain to listen to the end, where Brenda shares how she always thought she wasn’t good with numbers but found she enjoys financial planning because she can combine her intuitive math skills with her love of working with people, educating, and having deep conversations that can impact the future of clients’ lives, how Brenda is (..)

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Michigan CFO

JULY 13, 2021

Regardless of how complex or sophisticated the business is, math is math. Finding a way to be profitable at less-than-record-sales levels is critical. Sometimes I’m told “My business is different”. In the long run, Income must exceed Outgo. and allocate some of those profits to debt reduction or the ever-elusive “rainy day fund”.

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