CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

If you’re a chief marketing officer (CMO), the current economic uncertainty undoubtedly creates anxiety for you, your team, and your agencies. The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) has demonstrated the tight correlation between advertising spend and economic indicators like GDP growth by looking at historical data.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

We may be catching a glimpse of economic life beyond the pandemic. The Congressional Budget Office said on Monday (Feb. Morgan management said in its commentary that debit was being used for “everyday spend,” while credit sales have been negatively impacted by slumps in travel and entertainment-related activity.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. Two reasons. And it’s a critical need.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

I had an economics lesson, I had a life lesson, I had an epiphany, I had a race relations lesson, I had a self-esteem and confidence lesson. Being broke is economic, but being poor is a disabling frame of mind, a depressed condition of your spirit. It’s home economics class, doesn’t exist anymore. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 6, 2023

You know, a rich life, most people expect a money book to start with a chapter on budgets. We’re going to get a budget. Everybody hates the word budget. Everybody hates the word budget. I hate budgets myself. RITHOLTZ: Dining, entertainment, things like that. It’s much deeper than math.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

I think the industry likes to tell a story that one of the big drivers from insurance and brokerage firms to RIAs is essentially the economics of it. And you start doing the math of the staff, and you’re like, “I can hire people for less than this.” And the economics, they ultimately worked out long term.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

SEIDES: Yeah, I wouldn’t measure it in terms of economic returns. And what’s their budget like a fraction of it, right? 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. It’s just entertainment. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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