Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

It’s a town of about 4,000 people, so exposure to markets or investment banking or any of the careers in finance was not something that you really envisioned. It was at Bank One, at the time. I mean, when you look at that pre, it was, you know, the thought counterparty risk of a bank was solid, right, like that was something.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 27, 2023

I wanted to see the world, and whether it was investment banking, or basket weaving really had absolutely no bearing on my decision. What about what happened with a lot of banks during the financial crisis? What accounts for the difference between the two in your experience working on the trading desk? MIELLE: Lots of cursing.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Because he was all sure he was a totally isolated math. So, so he’s brilliant at math. He goes to m i t to study, study physics and math. So brilliant enough so that sure, he goes to math camp in the summer and find, kind of finds his tribe. But in math camp, he’s not the best. And the Undoing project.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

The ability to use an anonymous single currency to power a decentralized, permissionless distributed ledger operating over the public internet where miners compete to solve the math problems that enable the processing of transactions is a remarkable innovation. They buy tokens at a discount and resell them for big profits almost immediately.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 27, 2023

And I was very fortunate to get a job at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. ” RITHOLTZ: So people also should realize, for those of you who’ve never traded futures, it’s not like options where essentially you could put up your losses in advance and all they could do is go to zero. RITHOLTZ: Doing what?

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Joel Tillinghast : Well, okay, G, when he was six, my grandfather, who was a bookkeeper accountant at a textile mill died and my grandmother was a second string violin at the Providence Symphony Orchestra, which didn’t pay well then, and I suspect didn’t pay well now. And I was a math nerd as a kid. Tell us about that.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

And we said, let’s just take a little detour here and make sure we understand the credit risk of these things before we sort of travel, start making markets and banking and, and, and really making these a core part of our business. There’s 00:14:11 [Speaker Changed] No money in that bank.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 3, 2024

Jeffrey Sherman : Well, what it was was, so I, as I said, with applications, there’s many applications of math, and the usually obvious one is physics. Barry Ritholtz : It seems that some people are math people and some people are not. The, the math came easier. And I really hated physics, really. It’s so true.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

At that point, I’d been covering, as you mentioned, investment banking, Goldman Sachs for a couple years. You talk about hotels, Airbnb, and then the banks were having people draw down their line of credit weeks and weeks before things really got bad. And again, I’m probably pretty lucky. So that’s the question.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 2, 2024

“After a brief and undistinguished career at the Bank of England” You return to academia as a professor of econometrics at the University of Bristol Who puts that in their CV? But when I got to Cambridge, you know, the math was sort of serious there. So, you know, I took my math into statistics and things.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

And so after a week there, I, I said to the guys on desk, Hey, can I open an account and do this? Yeah, you’re, you’re, you’re allowed to open an account. So I opened an account and I sat there and I traded the, the New York Chicago Gold arbitrage for the next sort of close to month. Gary Cohn ] 00:05:28 Be?

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 23, 2022

So, I did the math, 20 million times a hundred. So, let me just repeat the math. And so, again, I went through this simple math. BROWDER: And I’ll just point out that this was back in the days when $100 million profit is real money. How many do you have in your fleet? It is $2 billion on the ship. RITHOLTZ: Wow.

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