Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I’d say management consulting is any of the other thing that least at that time was the other career trajectory, just my personality, more of a math oriented introvert. My mental image was that he worked in the bank of, back of a bank approving mortgage applications. Learn math, learn history. So I was at Harvard.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

So, yeah, I had a career in investment banking with Jefferies, and it was a really good professional experience because I do have the opportunity to work in M&A, equity and debt financing. I had the chance to be part of some very interesting transactions in the banking space. billion deal. BERRUGA: Yeah, speed. RITHOLTZ: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So hold the duration risk aside with those two, but just for an investor in treasuries, I know you’ve done the math before. If you’re giving up that 1% big fat yield in 2019, 2021, let’s say you give up three years of 1% and get zero, how does the math work over the subsequent couple of years?

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

Bitcoin uses math — and math equations that anyone can solve and see — to provide this cash-like feature. Speaking of math, doing it helps explain that big billion dollar-plus number. Big banks have started to deny crypto traders access, limiting their ability to withdraw funds. Back here in the U.S. —

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 4, 2023

Their mainstay financial services practice, which was banking and equities, fell off a cliff. We typically hire people out of the banks. I can’t remember if he sat at Bear or Lehman, but it was one of the banks that no longer exist. Banking getting much better. And at the same time, the dot com bubble collapsed.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Mike Wilson has been with Morgan Stanley since 1989, rising up through the ranks of institutional sales, trading, investing, banking to eventually becoming Chief Investment Officer and Chief US Equity Strategist. So I was really investment banking. So that’s the math. What was that experience like?

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And I was a math nerd as a kid. And Bank of America called me and said, would you like to be director of research and strategy? 00:24:08 [Speaker Changed] You, you want to do a preliminary sort and say, what would a good looking bank look like? Low price stock has historically had some very large concentrated positions.

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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. Bitcoin’s infrastructure is highly concentrated and not all that secure.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 15, 2024

I started out math and, and physics, and in high school I was a rock star in math and physics. So, so you, you start out credit analyst at Century back in Bank and Trust prior to getting an MBA, what was it like being a credit analyst in the 1980s? He, he was a president of a small bank enterprise bank up in Lowell.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 17, 2025

Wasn’t the Excel spreadsheet error, which changed their math. And I go, the answer is the Japanese central bank is, has interest rates set at 0.5%. How do you look at the relationship between a country’s central bank and its ability to manage its own debt? I mean that was, that was the problem.

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JUNE 16, 2025

Yeah, you have to, you know, the conceit of finance is that basically the math is all there is to it. So you mentioned half math, half Shakespeare. Let’s talk about the math side. Ivanka said, oh no, you don’t have to be able to do math to do real estate 00:20:13 [Speaker Changed] Or investing for that math.

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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

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Barry Ritholtz : I love the expression, the expression jingle mail people used to put their keys in an envelope and send it back to the bank. Or is the bank limited to just, they get the house and I get to walk away? I do the math. It was what it was the name of the place! And that’s jingle mail. I’m done with this.

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