Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 28, 2022

ELLIS: Well, it starts with one very simple proposition, nobody is making a profit. Every other investment organization got a problem that somebody is taking money out of the pot every day, every month, every year as a profit. I start a business to make a profit. I’ll get bigger, I’ll make more profits.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

But as a private equity owner, again, first of all, you do invest heavily of your own money in the transactions, plus you have additional ownership through, you know, the carried interest, the profits interests. September 13, 1981, I think the 10-year Treasury was 15.84 There was XO Communication and McLeod. RITHOLTZ: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Some people look at a casino as entertainment and hey, we’re gonna spend X dollars, pick a number, 500, 2000, whatever it is. And they go on longer and longer and obviously more profitable for the states that run the lottery. But it makes a big, big difference to your long-term outcomes if you can just avoid those big losses.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

We participated in that with treasury and FHFA and the regulators, the White House. And so, so we sort of felt pretty stupid for a while because we did a lot of losing trades in 2006 that were the, you know, that obviously didn’t come to fruition until the actual people could see the losses. The homes are here.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

They don’t let the reporters into the fun stuff, but it’s a bunch of CEOs with Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury Secretary, and they’re all yakking about this, the big theme that year, as it often has been since then, was environment, ESG, and they’re all talking about the kind of corporate babble that you hear at these things.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

So, for example, the treasury was thinking about moving to direct deposit, but they wanted to know how much it was gonna cost them because direct deposit, they, they, they, they, the money clears, you know, sorry, almost instantly, right? So they wanna know how many days does it take a, a treasury check to get back to us.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 24, 2023

It seems like the whole US National Institute of Health is designed for this information to bubble up to the top for a little command and control and communication. Profiteering fraud. It just, the, the, the profiteering really was utterly insane. Why the delay? That didn’t seem to happen. 00:14:45 [Speaker Changed] No.

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