PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2016

Now if we only knew the denominator and could do the math to see what those numbers really look like. When Walmart Pay released their numbers, they talked only of percentages. Next time, guys? SMB Working Capital. Invoices are paid by the business via Amex within two business days.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2016

He’d teach them about a variety of things going on in the world – science, math, archaeology, literature. His disdain isn’t because money is germ-laden paper passed from who-knows-who doing who-knows-what with it, but because he says it’s the currency of criminals. Samantha and Nick would boot up “Jack” every couple of days.

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

Its creator, the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto, gave it all of the qualities of cash, but in a digital format: peer-to-peer transfer of a currency in the absence of any intermediary that is pretty much anonymous — only wallet IDs are shared. Speaking of math, doing it helps explain that big billion dollar-plus number.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

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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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Take, for example, how the Fed views statistics, such as employment numbers, when it’s thinking about inflation or raising rates so quickly, which is really constraining to people on an actual budget facing other inflationary pressures, and, by the way, not actually doing anything about inflation. So those numbers are disparate.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

Number one, a school district is a business. And number two, and I think that they were like, I’m sure there’s a note coming after this with a congressional allocation, and it never came. BRYANT: Number two, money is emotional. BRYANT: So money, unlike math, money is highly emotional. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

It’s like being asked to figure out the solution to one of those unsolved math problems that mathematicians work on for years before they go insane. A number of car companies are going with Apple or Google platforms. WhatsApp did it, why can’t I? Once they get it into it, they realize that figuring out the solution is really hard.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I wasn’t that typical person that did a number of, you know, internships during the summer, had that …. I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. They understand currencies. BITTERLY MICHELL: … was — no, no.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

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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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2016

Foot traffic was down, the number of in-store transactions were down – at Macy’s that dip was 7 percent and far worse, they said, than last year, which was also down. It’s all about the math. We’ve done a number of studies to better understand how consumers decide where to start their shopping journey online.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 16, 2024

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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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

and I don’t know if this is from the book or or my research, Forbes settled on that number. They said at that moment they were selling crypto as it’s gonna replace fiat currency. And they put some Bitcoin on my phone and we walked into Palo Alto to the one coffee shop that accepted Bitcoin as currency. Right, right.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

The other $185 million is all fine, $100 million for the CFPB and $85 million for the Comptroller of the Currency. All in, falsifiying those accounts to inflate their numbers cost $5 million. In this case, Wells has already paid back most of the money consumers were wrongly charged — the payback part of the order is only $5 million.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

You can use this in a number of ways. And that’s a pretty good number. RITHOLTZ: So like the 40 percent number, what are the odds of this happening? Stocks usually make 10 percent a year, and don’t hold me to any of these numbers. What you’re going to earn on that money is an important number.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2017

“For Alipay, remittances are core to this business, and whether that becomes remittances that get integrated into mobile and into wallet, or whether they remain cash, they want to make sure they have that reach around the world in a number of different ways.”. Not to mention the 2.4 But in the U.S.,

Math 57

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

You’re doing a lot of math in your head on the Fly. I’m doing, I’m doing an awful lot of math in my head on the fly. If you look at the, if you look at the filing and you look at the size of the company and the revenue, the entire yearly revenue numbers would be a bad quarter right? That’s unbelievable.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It’s sold ungodly numbers of copies, and is on everybody’s best finance books of all-time list. When a professor says, “Come in, we’ll talk about the assignment,” and you come in and say, “I’ve already crunched the number. SCHWARTZ: And whose currency is up on the year? Here’s the data.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 23, 2022

And I was kind of intrigued and so I said, can we discuss it, and he laid it out on a conference table and I said, what’s this number? And then I said, what’s this number down here, and he said, this is last year’s earnings. And that number was $160 million. So, I did the math, 20 million times a hundred.

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