directorblue.blogspot.com - 22 days ago
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Chrissie sent this one in.This math test can predict your all time most watched film, mine was Saving Private Ryan. Try it without looking at the answers. It works!Pick a number from 1 to 9.Multiply by 3.Add 3, then multiply by 3 again.You will get your answer by adding the two digits together ...
Can Obama do math?
hotair.com 9/15/2009 — I’m not asking this to be snarky, or at least not entirely. Barack Obama twice this week made an argument that he can squeeze $4 trillion in deficit reduction “over the long term” from an industry that generates a total of $2.3 ...
FACT CHECK: GOP Math Suspect In Stimulus Debate
huffingtonpost.com 25 days ago — WASHINGTON — Beware the math. Some Republican lawmakers critical of President Barack Obama's stimulus package are using grade-school arithmetic to size up costs and consequences of all that spending. The math is satisfyingly simple but highly ...
Does Anyone Do Math Anymore?
bluecrabboulevard.com 10/8/2009 — Much is being made on the left (and fear is surfacing on the right) about the fact that the (actually nonexistent) Baucus bill would decrease the deficit by some $81 billion over ten years.
The same CBO that scored that concept – not a bill ...
Basic Math for the Math Challenged
econbrowser.com 8/21/2009 — Since Richard Posner has decided to exhibit his math skills again, I thought it useful to work through some math to see how one can obtain back-of-the-envelope estimates for the stimulus package. I'll use Mr. Posner's numbers to illustrate.
The (near) impossible math for Hoffman
politico.com 15 days ago — The Watertown Daily Times has the most up-to-date numbers from last week's New York 23 special election, which shows that Hoffman faces near-impossible odds of overcoming a 3,176-vote deficit.
About 10,200 absentee and military ballots were sent ...
Warming Fact Quiz
freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com 10/23/2009 — By the time you finish this blog post, you will understand why we differ from our critics in our conclusions. As we write in SuperFreakonomics , there are many misconceptions about the facts surrounding global warming. Take the following true/false ...
Can Someone Explain This Math?
themoderatevoice.com 10/25/2009 — Goldman Sachs bonus pool estimated at $725,000 per employee
This week, business reporters told us that Goldman Sachs 2009 third quarter profits swelled, compared with 2008, to an estimated $3.19 billion. The bonus pool stands at $16.7 billion, and, by the end of the year, it could hit $23 ...
Bad Math | The New Republic
tnr.com 10/13/2009 — Harold Pollack is a professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration and Special Correspondent for The Treatment. I m piling on the AHIP party. As three Jonathans have already pointed out today, PricewaterhouseCoopers s ...
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