Robert C. Merton's Birth Card: The 10 of Hearts

In the record

Robert Cox Merton (born July 31, 1944) is an American economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureate, and professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. The birth-card coordinate for July 31 is the 10 of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1997 Economic Sciences prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1997 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — for a new method to determine the value of derivatives

The 10 of Hearts coordinate

Robert C. Merton's birthday maps to the 10 of Hearts (The Community Heart). 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 Robert C. Merton. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You make room for a lot of people and still keep a self inside the room.

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Robert C. Merton in the public record

He is best known for his pioneering contributions to continuous-time finance, particularly the first continuous-time option pricing model, the Black–Scholes–Merton model. In 1997, Merton and Myron Scholes were jointly awarded the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for developing a method to determine the value of derivative securities. Merton was on the board of directors of Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM), a highly leveraged hedge fund that collapsed in 1998, wiping out most of the value paid in by the investors, and requiring a $3.6 billion bailout from a group of 14 banks, in a deal brokered and put together by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Merton's current research focus is on the topics of lifecycle investing and retirement funding, measuring and monitoring systemic risks in macrofinance, and financial innovation coupled with changing dynamics in financial institutions.

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

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Ability to inspire intellectual breakthroughs

Robert Cox Merton (born July 31, 1944) is an American economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureate, and professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: professor.

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What is Robert C. Merton's birth card?

The 10 of Hearts. July 31 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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