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Aug 17, 2016

Why the Brits crushed the French at the Olympics. Compound interest.

The french are not happy. The Brits have won a huge pile of gold medals in cycling and the French papers are full of analysis and irritation at being stomped on by a country with a similar sized population and…

1% a day makes you 37 times better in a year

“If you start out with $100 at the beginning of the year and you were able to increase what you have by 1% every single day, at the end of the year, you would have $3,778.34 = $100 * (1 + 1%) ^ 365. That is 37.78x what you had at the beginning of the…