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What Walmart’s Resurgence Means For Retail And The “Pays”

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He didn’t think much of math and science — rather unusual given his choice of a profession that uses complicated math formulas to communicate. And that the only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. His economic principles were what inspired President Lyndon B.

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Transcript: Lynn Martin

Barry Ritholtz

I don’t know if those challenges would have been as extreme as was forecasted or not, but I’m really glad we didn’t find out. So I tend to view computer coding not that dissimilar to communicating in a foreign language. So 2000 could have been 1900, and that could have caused challenges. RITHOLTZ: Yeah.

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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

Barry Ritholtz

Few people are in a position to see what’s going on in the world of investing, whether it’s institutional or retail, better than Vanguard CIO. And if, again, based on our forecast for US equity markets, they’re somewhat muted because valuations are stretched in our view relative to our fair value model.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

Barry Ritholtz

And so, with this gave me exposure to everything from investment banking to retail, looking at like checking account campaigns, like how do you get more assets in the door to credit risk. I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature.

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Transcript: Rick Rieder

Barry Ritholtz

RIEDER: It’s funny you said that because, listen, I think we’ve gotten to the place where there actually is too much communication. B, I think when they get to this place or where they are today, I don’t think they have to communicate every single step of the way. RITHOLTZ: A lot, right? It is too much. RIEDER: Yeah.

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Transcript: Sean Dobson, Amherst Holdings

Barry Ritholtz

I’m assuming it’s primarily institutional and not retail. So that was the, that was the sort of the thing that we built that people hadn’t thought through is how do you stochastically forecast a range of outcomes for the asset price? Huh, 00:20:35 [Speaker Changed] Absolutely. Fascinating.

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Transcript: Liz Hoffman

Barry Ritholtz

RITHOLTZ: Retail just is nothing at all. hey, there’s no retail, order online. I mean, you’re talking about, I don’t, I could do the math, it’s like a 10,000% return in like three weeks. Wait, you’re selling video games in retail shops in malls? And we threw one or two overboard.