Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I’d say management consulting is any of the other thing that least at that time was the other career trajectory, just my personality, more of a math oriented introvert. People might overreact to an interest rate move in our opinion, but we’re not gonna try to forecast it or pick stocks based on that. So I was at Harvard.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

So a variety of risk meetings, a variety of economic meetings. And if, again, based on our forecast for US equity markets, they’re somewhat muted because valuations are stretched in our view relative to our fair value model. DAVIS: Yes, we try not to be in the short-term forecasting game. And it runs a scale.

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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. I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. It was at Bank One, at the time.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

RIEDER: And all of a sudden, you change the economic paradigm so darn fast. You don’t know where, and you know, their forecast — RITHOLTZ: That goes back to your sense that you need the ability to surprise when necessary. How are we doing in literacy versus math versus science? RIEDER: Yeah. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

So in this, in this context of, of a mortgage now being clear to everyone that this default risk is present, it’s real, and it’s hard to price because following the borrower’s economic profile, there, there are defaults that are related to just life events, but there’s also defaults related to a macroeconomic event.

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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

APRIL 8, 2024

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Ed Hyman on Using Economic Data Opportunistically , is below. He is one of those people who focuses on figuring out what’s happening here and now, and is less concerned about making forecasts about the future. That’s just unprecedented. Ed is a fascinating guy. His clients adore him.

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