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Dollars Are For Spending & Investing, Not Saving

Barry Ritholtz

That comp gets deposited directly into my bank account, and that money is available for purchasing necessities (food, housing, clothing, medicine, transportation, etc.) Whether it’s a few decades or a century, the math works the same. I work 40-60 hours a week and get paid for my time and efforts. and paying taxes.

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

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It can also be safely transported and stored for 30 days at temperatures achievable with standard refrigerated shipping and commercial freezer storage. 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.

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206: Zebediah Marewangepo

CFO Talks

When I was studying towards my qualifications for university, I had to choose subjects which were in line with medicine, which was maths, biology and chemistry, but somewhere along the line I ended up doing accountancy and I then finished college in 1994.

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

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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 The overall effect in the very specific use cases of transport? trillion minutes spent on the grind before the daily grind.

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SmartTag Startup Jiobit Sees $3M Seed Round

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Just recently, Jiobit closed a $3 million seed funding round with investors including Lior Ron, the cofounder of Otto (now owned by Uber); MATH Venture Partners; and Inflection Equity. The next wave of innovation, whether it’s in transportation, health or at home, will come from great teams at the intersection of both.

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Amazon Tracker: By Land, Air, Sea

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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. The company is pulling out all the stops to up the convenience factor. from Chinese merchants.

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Wealth Inequality Might Be Hurting Families’ Retail Budgets

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Housing costs now consume 50 percent more of these families’ annual budgets (compared to 1996), and transportation also eats up 7 percent more of their wallets (up to 15.7 The picture is even more dire for families on the lower end of the income spectrum. percent in 2014 from just 8.8 percent in 2009).