Merton H. Miller's Birth Card: The 3 of Diamonds

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Merton Howard Miller (May 16, 1923 – June 3, 2000) was an American economist, and the co-author of the Modigliani–Miller theorem (1958), which proposed the irrelevance of debt-equity structure. The birth-card coordinate for May 16 is the 3 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1990 Economic Sciences prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1990 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — for their pioneering work in the theory of financial economics

The 3 of Diamonds coordinate

Merton H. Miller's birthday maps to the 3 of Diamonds (The Success Communicator). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Merton H. Miller. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You keep more than one path alive without letting any of them stay imaginary.

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Merton H. Miller in the public record

He shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1990, along with Harry Markowitz and William F. Sharpe. Miller spent most of his academic career at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. Miller was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Jewish parents Sylvia and Joel Miller, a housewife and attorney. He attended Harvard University as an undergraduate student. He worked during World War II as an economist in the division of tax research of the Treasury Department, and received a Ph.D. in economics from Johns Hopkins University, 1952. His first academic appointment after receiving his doctorate was Visiting Assistant Lecturer at the London School of Economics. In 1958, at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), he collaborated with his colleague Franco Modigliani on the paper The Cost of Capital, Corporate Finance and the Theory of Investment.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Merton Miller (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

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You care for people without disappearing. You're wired for harmony and devotion—attuned to others' needs and moved to meet them. You create peace and care in your relationships, and people feel tended to in your presence. Love, for you, is something you actively give.

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Also on the record

1. This paper urged a fundamental objection to the traditional view of corporate finance, according to which a corporation can reduce its cost of capital by finding the right debt-to-equity ratio.
2. According to the Modigliani–Miller theorem, on the other hand, there is no right ratio, so corporate managers should seek to minimize tax liability and maximize corporate net wealth, letting the debt ratio chips fall where they will.
3. The way in which they arrived at this conclusion made use of the "no arbitrage" argument, i.e. the premise that any state of affairs that will allow traders of any market instrument to create a riskless money machine will almost immediately disappear.
4. They set the pattern for many arguments based on that premise in subsequent years.

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