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Normalized earnings are, more or less, the average of what you typically earn. Picture a bell curve. Zoom in on the middle of it. There you go.

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Finance allah shmoop what are normalized earnings All right this

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is norm or it's supposed to be We just couldn't

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get the licensing rights from him So this is our

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public domain version of norm from cheers Sorry And this's

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normal that's a bell curve Yeah you're in the ebola

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abatement business Each year the government spends a few bucks

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on you Just keep you alive Is a business in

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case Well you know a few hundred million peoples faces

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start melting off like you know that scene in indiana

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jones you know the good ones so your earnings are

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usually here and here and here and here a buck

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a buck twelve twenty three twenty four years I'm like

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that But then one year after miss malaria's high school

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biology class takes a field trip to study monkeys bats

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and beetle crap in caves in central ghana Well your

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business picks up So this year when the gove is

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having to spend a fortune on ebola abatement you were

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nine dollars and forty two cents a share And since

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world awareness has suddenly shot up the most popular yahoo

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search term index that thing well next year you'll still

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learn five seventeen to share even though most the ebola

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is pretty much gone now But then things quiet down

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in life goes back to normal where your earnings are

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you know normal and you could plot some kind of

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line through them And if someone asked you what normalized

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earnings are in your little ebola abatement company well you

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could say that your normalized earnings are in about a

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buck twenty Well fortunately making out with the nigerian fruit

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bat is not normal so you probably don't have to 00:01:40.539 --> [endTime] worry about contracting ebola Ooh

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