While doing some casual reading this evening I came across the following interesting statement.
“The cost of heart disease and stroke in the United States has been estimated at $432 billion for 2007, including health care expenditures and lost productivity.”
-The Blue Zone by Dan Buettner
This is a pretty shocking estimate and although the number could have [...]

Math, yes, the stereotypically nerdy, the unjustly named boring, and maybe not so wrongly named difficult.  It is, despite these truths and fictions, a matter of great concern especially for those who wish to further their knowledge of finance and economics. Readings of many graduate level or higher papers in these fields are littered with [...]