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Members’ Profile: Rofhiwa Irene Singo

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However, my commerce teacher noticed my aptitude for math and saw potential in me for a different path. This early encouragement played a key role in shaping my future, as it introduced me to the world of business and numbers. After finishing primary school, I initially chose needlework in my first year of high school.

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

Barry Ritholtz

So number one on the New York Times list? 00:22:23 [Speaker Changed] Not number one, but it was in the top f whatever it made the list. Wasn’t the Excel spreadsheet error, which changed their math. Time, it, it seemed like a big number at the time, 787 billion. And he said, I wanna be the first to congratulate you.

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Transcript: Bill Bernstein on Navigating Uncertainty

The Big Picture

Yeah, you have to, you know, the conceit of finance is that basically the math is all there is to it. So you mentioned half math, half Shakespeare. Let’s talk about the math side. Some crazy number writing a monthly column for them. I I, I mean that’s how I do math in my head. You can’t execute.

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Commuting’s a Drag, But Contactless Can Ease the Misery

PYMNTS

That number, refreshed to reflect 2015, is up significantly from the 21 minutes seen in 1980, when the bureau began tracking that data. The math shakes out this way: 26 minutes, each way, five days a week, 50 weeks a year, and with 136 million workers slogging (OKnot all of them, but we are being general here) and The Washington Post noted 1.8

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Stakes Rising In The US-China AI Race

Global Finance

Arcesati notes, “The US has historically excelled at attracting top STEM [science, technology, engineering and math] talent from abroad, while China has struggled to do so. AI’s positive impact will be concentrated, initially, “in a limited number of sectors.”

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Amazon Tracker: By Land, Air, Sea

PYMNTS

PYMNTS will update with all the details and provide analysis once Amazon releases its numbers. All toys selected will in some way be related to science, technology, engineering and math. While it doesn’t own or operate the ships transporting the goods, it is acting as a forwarder of global freight and third-party logistics company.

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Transcript: Linda Gibson, CEO PGIM Quantitative Solutions

Barry Ritholtz

She has a really fascinating background, very eclectic, a combination of math and law. She has run a number of firms and a number of divisions at large firms and traced a career arc that’s just very unusual compared to the typical person in finance. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child.