Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Even a cursory examination of the the Nifty Fifty , the stocks that drove US equities upwards in the early 1970s, reveals companies like Coca Cola and Gilette, where brand name was a significant contributor to value, as well as pharmaceutical companies like Bristol-Myers and Pfizer, which derived a large portion of their value from patents.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

I was thinking any number of things and mostly that I didn’t really know what I wanted to be when I grew up, but I was not kind of at all informed by, you know, gender norms that people asked me a lot about now, in particular how do you know a woman, how did you think about ending up in this thing? MCCARTHY: Yeah, absolutely.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

And before you knew it, she was the number one salesperson for selling to professional salons in the whole country. They just didn’t do that in big numbers back then. You could probably build a better communications strategy. You have a concentrated securities position, right? So, I learned a lot from these ladies.

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