Turns out they got a few things wrong. Their formulas were based on only a few years of actual data. Or they failed to take into account the possibility that housing prices would fall. Or that the ...

Beware of geeks bearing formulas. That’s the lesson most of us have learned from the financial crisis. The “quants” who devised the risk models that induced so many financial institutions to buy ...

Formula investing promises investors a systematic, rules-based approach to outperforming the market. In their December 2024 paper, Marcel Schwartz and Matthias Hanauer evaluated four of the most ...

Google's latest doodle in India celebrates the quadratic equation, ax² + bx + c = 0, showcasing its real-world applications ...

Your fundamental point in the Sept. 8 Extra Credit is valid and important: SAT scores tell us how much money and education the parents have, on average, and say little about how hard the school is ...