Chris Lau - Seeking Alpha

Monday, August 03, 2009

Math Class: Exponential Growth

Below are 8 videos that will help investors correctly interpret news headlines, economic policy and goals. Total class time is about 1 hour.

As an aside, notice the dropoff in views from video 1 to video 2-8. HT (hat tip) to Tom Doser (kaChing).

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No Benefits, No Problem
CalculatedRisk reported that 1.5M unemployed will lose benefits by the end of 2009.

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2009/08/unemployment-15-million-workers-will.html

No problem.

The site reported that policies may change to extend benefits.

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2009/08/geithner-administration-looking-at.html