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# Video: The most important number you won’t find in the Wall Street Journal

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August 11, 2015

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## Video: The most important number you won’t find in the Wall Street Journal

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The Wall Street Journal publishes 10,000 different numbers every day…but you won’t find the one that’ll help you decide how much to save or how to invest your savings. In this short talk – based on presentations given at MIT, UPenn, Columbia, the LSE and the JH Weds Lunch Club – we’ll show you an easy way to compute this number for yourself.

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