Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The recent troubles in entertainment, though, reflect a longer term disruption that has occurred in the business, with the rise of streaming as an alternative to the traditional platforms for movies and television shows. That said, the movie business remained concentrated, with the biggest players dominating each segment of the business.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

There’s also quantitative metrics that we look at Those have evolved, but always within that capa, that cluster of high returns on investment stability across the economic cycle are consistent and strong balance sheets. I think right now, just in a market cap sense, market concentration, there are a lot more growth stocks.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

India seems to be like a perennial next economic powerhouse after China and it just always seems to be not catching that next bid. JOHNSON: It became a much riskier investment by investing the S&P 500 based on volatility and concentration. RITHOLTZ: So I don’t want to talk about politics. We’re recording this.

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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

AUGUST 16, 2022

TROPIN: I mean, you know, there were equity hedge funds that were pretty levered, that had pretty highly concentrated, you know, growth bets, and a lot of technology companies and so on. Well, I’m not forecasting another 20% down, but I do think we could go down 5% or 10%. And a lot of those equities went down a lot.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

The economic dislocation, the health risks, just the mayhem that took place, but from the perspective of a number of corporate CEOs, Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital, the hedge fund that had a couple of amazing trades based on this. HOFFMAN: So obviously, I’ve — you know, economically minded from the jump.

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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 so that can cause the impulse of the economic news to be filtered into financial conditions much more, more quickly. But those forecasts are, you know, not particularly reliable.

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