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New Data: What COVID-19 Is Doing To Main Street SMBs

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The construction and manufacturing sectors were the most bullish, as consumers bought new houses and invested in improving the ones in which they were living. Those numbers are so stark that they are worth repeating. Doing The Math. In just 21 days. . One in four businesses doubt they will make it. It may not be so clear-cut.

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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

Barry Ritholtz

And it worked out and had multiple job offers coming out of school from a number of different insurance companies. I had a number of relationships that I built up and had another job lined up in New York City. We help them in terms of identifying and creating the parameters around how that index should be constructed.

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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

Barry Ritholtz

So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. Graham Foster] : 00:02:54 That was a number, that was number theory, pure number theory. It gets further and further away the D P U go.

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Transcript: Cathy Marcus, PGIM Real Estate

Barry Ritholtz

She has had a number of different positions within PIM, including managing their flagship core real estate fund. She has lived and invested through not just the great financial crisis, but the SNL crisis and a number of other fascinating experiences in real estate. If there was an error in a report or a number, I went ballistic.

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Transcript: Rick Rieder

Barry Ritholtz

And like I say, that’s part of why it’s translated to a number of people coming to BlackRock and be with me today. RIEDER: So I had known Larry Fink and Rob Caputo, our CEO and president, for a number of years. And you know, it’s been an honor to have a number of awards to it. So yeah, man, that was the idea.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

Or at least the top, pick a number, 30, 40%. I don’t remember the number. ” 29, 87, 74, just pick any 50 plus percent number and certainly 2000 and ’08, ’09, a major index gets cut in half. So you’re talking about an average of a large number. Less, 20, 30%? And — RITHOLTZ: What?

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Transcript: Sean Dobson, Amherst Holdings

Barry Ritholtz

So we could construct trades that had very, very low premiums to sell this volatility to, to basically join the consumer on their side of the trade, which is in essence buying insurance on, on the bonds that were exposed to these great risk. We participated in that with treasury and FHFA and the regulators, the White House.