CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

As the world’s attention is focused on the war in the Ukraine, it is the human toll, in death and injury, that should get our immediate attention, and you may find a focus on economics and markets to be callous. Ukraine, a part of the Soviet Union, has had its shares of ups and downs, and its economic footprint is even smaller.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The promoters gave victims access to a supposed online AirBit Club portal that displayed false profits. We might see certain economies crashing and local currencies plummeting, which would make Bitcoin theft a lot more attractive,” the cybersecurity provider noted in its forecast. Dos Santos was arrested in Panama City on Aug.

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VCFO

DECEMBER 10, 2021

What does that do to your profitability? Many companies run with less than a 10% profit to start with. a currency) over time. When the percentage is moving up and to the right over time, that indicates that a unit of currency effectively buys less than it did in prior periods. Why Do Currencies Depreciate?

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Centage

AUGUST 29, 2022

The end result is improved forecasting when it comes to revenue, profitability, and cash flow. In today’s economic climate, sticking to your preconceptions can have disastrous results. In fact, companies often suffer financial losses as a result of poor project planning. Evaluating Business Assumptions. Narrow Down Scenarios.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 23, 2022

In October 2022, the International Monetary Fund warned that inflation — combined with central banks’ interest rate hikes designed to fight it — could threaten the entire global economy, a good reason to understand what causes inflation and how to manage this gradual loss of purchasing power. . What is inflation?

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

As the world's attention is focused on the war in the Ukraine, it is the human toll, in death and injury, that should get our immediate attention, and you may find a focus on economics and markets to be callous. Ukraine, a part of the Soviet Union, has had its shares of ups and downs, and its economic footprint is even smaller.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2016

But market conditions have also made it more difficult than ever to understand how much money a firm has, where it is, who it’s going to and what form of currency it’s in. Digital currencies, cybercrime and complexities of the accounts payable process combine into a mountain of challenges for corporate financial chiefs.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

The problem with large investments – the type that run into the billions of dollars – is that just as gains can be astronomical, the losses can be devastating. Promises to disrupt the way business has always been done are exciting, yes, but profits matter. Emily Dickinson once wrote that “hope is the thing with feathers.”

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Finvisage

JANUARY 2, 2020

The report further proceeds with Results and Findings column, confronting data on several key economic factors affecting TCI on a macro scale. Subsequently, the report touches upon the UK’s current economic environment and TCI’s recent market status. It does not aim to replace profits lost on the transaction.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2018

Canadian companies are less optimistic, however, about the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) between Canada and Europe), and Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) trade agreements. jobs data are all affecting the currency, but that strong economic performance in the country is a good sign.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

It wasn’t because it has the secret to running a profitable eCommerce site or success in monetizing memberships a la its CEO’s alma mater, Amazon. Jet.com is not profitable and has no clear path to profits, critics say. But what it has is the secret sauce for calculating prices in ways that maximize margin.

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

I was reminded of that paper a few weeks ago, when Fitch downgraded the US, from AAA to AA+, a relatively minor shift, but one with significant psychological consequences for investors in the largest economy in the world, whose currency still dominates global transactions.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

That said, it does mean that any broad conclusions (about profitability and revenues) that emerge from my data apply to public companies, and it may be dangerous to extrapolate to private businesses, especially in a year like 2020 where private businesses could have been affected more adversely by COVID shutdowns than public companies.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

It is true that economic activity has leveled off and housing prices have declined a little, relative to a year ago, but given the rise in rates in 2022, those changes are mild. The biggest winner, and this should come as no surprise, has been technology, with a return of 43% in 2023, and almost entirely recovering its losses in 2022.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

I had an economics lesson, I had a life lesson, I had an epiphany, I had a race relations lesson, I had a self-esteem and confidence lesson. Being broke is economic, but being poor is a disabling frame of mind, a depressed condition of your spirit. It’s home economics class, doesn’t exist anymore. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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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

OCTOBER 17, 2023

A degree in mathematics from Oxford, a doctorate in mathematical epidemiology and economics from Cambridge. And you do a lot of work with infinity [Barry Ritholtz] : 00:03:29 [Speaker Changed] And then economics, which is a little bit squishier. What made you add economics to your, to your graduate degree? What is that?

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

This essay is forthcoming in the Review of Keynesian Economics and is posted here with the permission of the editor. Originally published at the Institute for New Economic Thinking website 1. Johnson School of Public Affairs, and a Professorship in Government at The University of Texas at Austin. Contact: galbraith@mail.utexas.edu.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 13, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So a lot of companies that go public then have a valuable currency they can use for acquisitions. During COVID, rather than just a monetary response, we saw a massive fiscal response, which seemed to have really helped across the entire economic strata, especially the middle class. How did that play into the thinking?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Shortly after launching in April, the Keza app shut down , and this was on the heels of $357,000 in funding from Digital Currency Group and Jason Calacanis of HOF Capital. Let’s recap the summer for bitcoin prices and see what might befall the currency in the fall. The Keza app which allows bitcoin users to invest in mainstream U.S.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

If you’re all interested in macro investing, trend following, commodities, currencies, fixed income, various types of quantitative strategies, and most important of all, risk management, you’re going to find this conversation to be absolutely fascinating. But on a relative basis, it was easier. RITHOLTZ: Right. TROPIN: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

ASNESS: Some of the things like betting against beta, quality or profitability, carry strategies were additions over time. ASNESS: And we had a great almost a decade, because everything else we do work, profitability one; fundamental, momentum one; low risk one. Profitability, they tend to be fairly unprofitable. RITHOLTZ: Okay.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2016

Yes, the sobering reality of having to really make money has become an unwelcome wake-up call for those who masked the real value of their business with the never-ending piles of VC cash that just kept underwriting losses and kicked the revenue can way down the road. ARE WE SOLVING THE RIGHT PROBLEMS FOR THE RIGHT PEOPLE?

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 31, 2023

Neil Dutta has been doing economic analysis and research from a market-based perspective for over 20 years. I found this to be just an absolutely fascinating discussion about how to best contextualize the world of economic data around you, in a way that’s useful for you as an investor. With no further ado, RenMac’s Neil Dutta.

Economics 57

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Gary Cohn, Director of the National Economic Council, President of Goldman Sachs , is below. So we, we became, we went from fixed income and j Aaron to thick fixed income currency and commodities. You had a lot of currency forwards trading, which made se made sense. Made sense.

Marketing 108

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This, this is true with every pump and up scheme, every pyramid scheme, and it, it comes out in some of the court documents later that in, in some of the corporate Slack accounts, one, one of the people say they should be the director of Ponzi economics. They release their profits every quarter. Tell us what is Ponzi nos?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Other than perhaps the very largest players in the game, most loan lenders can’t soak that kind of volume loss, since payday lending (contrary to public opinion) is not a high-margin business to start with. That destruction is necessary, according to CFPB director Richard Cordray.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Other than perhaps the very largest players in the game, most loan lenders can’t soak that kind of volume loss, since payday lending (contrary to public opinion) is not a high-margin business to start with. That destruction is necessary, according to CFPB director Richard Cordray.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 23, 2022

in Economics from Chicago and MBA from Stanford. Like investing in this kind of stuff and I had total life saving for the time of $2,000 and I converted my total life savings of $2,000 into Polish zloty, their currency, went down with my translator to the post office and subscribed to the very first privatization in Poland.

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