Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2022

And in order to graduate from Cook you had to have at least a minor that was related, and I thought — I took an econ class and I kind of liked it, so I minored in environmental economics. I — because obviously, I’m like journalism, economics, I’m in Rutgers. I run it at a loss. RITHOLTZ: Interesting. BALCHUNAS: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And so, coming out of school, I studied Economics and Spanish Literature, and I applied to a — a program that actually targeted Liberal Arts majors. You have a background, undergraduate, your economics degree from Notre Dame, but you were dual-major Spanish language and Literature degree, how useful was that in Latin America?

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

And they also have a unique approach to feeds when they’re generating alpha, when they’re outperforming their benchmark, they take a performance fee. A degree in mathematics from Oxford, a doctorate in mathematical epidemiology and economics from Cambridge. What made you add economics to your, to your graduate degree?

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 24, 2023

10 years ago you had the top economics, economists, investors in America writing a letter to the Fed in 2010 saying, “Hey, stop QE. In 2015, Bill Gurley at Benchmark was saying Silicon Valley is in a bubble. You’ve seen job losses in goods producing sectors, manufacturing, auto, construction. ” RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

He has absolutely crushed his benchmark over that period. He’s crushed the Russell 2000, whatever benchmark you want to talk about. They announced a $640 million loss and ouch. So it leads to the question, what’s the secret to this longstanding outperformance against all benchmarks and, and all passive measures?

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

And so, you know, it was relatively, I wouldn’t say straightforward because I don’t think generating consistent profits has ever been something that’s so straightforward or so easy. And it’s always going to expect to lose some of those profits when the trend reverses, but still end up capturing the meat of the trend.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

You get an economics PhD from California, Berkeley in 82, and around the same time you become an economist at the Federal Reserve Board from 81 to 83. And, and since then, you, you’ve gone on to do some work reforming L-I-B-O-R as the benchmark for rates. Let, let’s talk a little bit about your background.

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