Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

While the universe of companies is diverse, with approximately half of all firms from emerging markets, it is more concentrated in market capitalization, with the US accounting for 40% of global market capitalization at the start of the year. If there is a hole in my sample, it is the absence of privately owned businesses.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

His latest book could not be more timely, “The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest,” it’s all about the history of interest rates, money lending, investing speculation, funded by banks and loans and credit. And Jeremy said, “Well, at least there’s enough structural redundancy in the banking system.”

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Musings on Markets

JULY 25, 2023

There are many services, including the World Bank and the Economist, who offer comprehensive country risk scores, and the map below includes composite country risk scores from Political Risk Services in June 2023: The pluses and minuses of comprehensive risk scores are visible in this table. the riskfree rate in Egyptian pounds is 14.38%.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Accounting was very difficult. It’s about a 50% fail rate, something like that. You, you mentioned the fed raising rates. What do you see in, in treasuries and the fixed income half of the portfolio? And there, people were warning that that was about to happen in the spring when Silicon Valley Bank, right.

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