Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

He developed the Ginnie Mae contract, which at one time was a big thing in treasury bond contract. They announced a $640 million loss and ouch. But if, if it has a history of not being profitable, you you really want to exclude that. Low price stock has historically had some very large concentrated positions. So big loss.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

RITHOLTZ: And those were Treasuries. And so, you know, it was relatively, I wouldn’t say straightforward because I don’t think generating consistent profits has ever been something that’s so straightforward or so easy. RITHOLTZ: Like, very different universe, right? TROPIN: Right. TROPIN: Yeah. No, no, no.

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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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