Starting a column saying that 2020 was a bad year for the economy is almost a guarantee that the reader (if there is one) will not move on from that sentence.

So it is better to turn it around.

For math genius

James Simons

, 2020 was a good year.

It earned 2.6 billion dollars, or 2.15 billion euros, according to

Institutional Investor

magazine

.

As

Benjamin Franklin

, one of the founders of the United States (and the inventor of the lightning rod), said: "The only thing more expensive than getting a good

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