The Finance Weekly

MARCH 25, 2024

She led Oracle's transition to cloud computing which skyrocketed the company's industry status and has successfully guided Oracle through challenging economic periods. With over two decades of experience in media and entertainment, Ianniello was among the key persons behind one of the world's largest media companies.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

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. And it’s always going to expect to lose some of those profits when the trend reverses, but still end up capturing the meat of the trend.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Michael: So, it sounds like part of the challenge was, you live in a large company environment where, as is common for a lot of them, they organized study groups of top advisors, of top producers, of those that are doing well and growing well, and driving the business profitably. In fact, we probably would have been much more profitable.

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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

DECEMBER 5, 2023

So, so let’s talk a little bit about your, your background ba in economics from Dartmouth. We hope that we can invest behind and see stability so that there won’t be a loss of capital 00:28:00 [Speaker Changed] And, and above average GDP 00:28:02 [Speaker Changed] Growth. For diversity is profitable for investors.

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Simply Treasury

MARCH 25, 2020

This health crisis will have serious economic consequences. The companies more exposed, such as air transport, travel, hotels and restaurants, bars, entertainment, cinemas, theatres, trade fairs, etc. A business can be profitable, generate returns and fall due to lack of liquidities. They're going to run out of cash.

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Simply Treasury

MARCH 25, 2020

This health crisis will have serious economic consequences. The companies more exposed, such as air transport, travel, hotels and restaurants, bars, entertainment, cinemas, theatres, trade fairs, etc. A business can be profitable, generate returns and fall due to lack of liquidities. They're going to run out of cash.

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Treasury Profit and Loss Entertainment Transportation 130

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

We’ll get to where you work at JP Morgan, but economics bachelor’s from Columbia MBA from Harvard. So I decided to become an economics major and a psychology minor. So the intersection of psychology and economics became really interesting. Christine Philpots. 00:01:37 [Speaker Changed] Thank you for having me.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 10, 2023

We will end with a discussion of how enterprises try, with mixed effects, to build protections against the loss of key personnel. In sports and entertainment, for instance, business can gain value from having a celebrity representing them in a paid or unpaid capacity. Who is a key person?

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 27, 2023

It’s a matter of making better decisions and being more profitable. since the ‘80s regarding economic mobility, that there used to be a huge ability to move up, or at least be in a better situation than your parents were. Tell us about how you saw this lack of diversity and the lack of economic mobility. RITHOLTZ: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 2, 2024

That wasnt especially profitable. You guys are in business looking for an economic outcome. Eva Shang : So Christian was studying economics and computer science. But it was our very first loss and it meant a lot to us because it threw into question our entire business model. What’s the win-loss rate?

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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. in 2016 to 1.8%

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 28, 2022

ELLIS: Well, it starts with one very simple proposition, nobody is making a profit. Every other investment organization got a problem that somebody is taking money out of the pot every day, every month, every year as a profit. I start a business to make a profit. I’ll get bigger, I’ll make more profits.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Stanford Bachelor’s in Economics and Sociology and a Master’s in Public Policy. I, my dad’s a economics professor and so economics seemed like a good undergraduate plan, but frankly at the time my real plan was to go play professional baseball. Then you use the profits from that to buy a second boat.

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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

JUNE 27, 2023

.” RITHOLTZ: So people also should realize, for those of you who’ve never traded futures, it’s not like options where essentially you could put up your losses in advance and all they could do is go to zero. RITHOLTZ: Put up your losses in advance. Options, you’re on the hook no matter where it goes.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The Law in Spirit and Letter In the latter part of the nineteenth century, as the United States was transitioning from an emerging market to a global economic power, its growth was powered by three industries - steel, railroads and oil - all requiring large investments in infrastructure. In short, while Ms.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 20, 2024

And so it is important that at least you’re able to entertain that. So the actual source of profitability in that trade is not the level of the vix, but the shape of the vol surface. I don’t know what you’re allowed to talk about, but it’s safe to say this was a big eight or nine figure profit, right?

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Let’s just jump right into this undergraduate Vienna University of Economics and Business. 00:01:40 [Speaker Changed] So yeah, I was born and raised in Vienna and went to the Vienna University of Economics, but actually raced in junior formulas at the time and wanted to be a race driver. How do you cope with that loss of talent?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2020

Disney also suspended its quarterly dividend and slashed $700 million in expansion spending at domestic theme parks as it sought to offset some of the massive net quarterly loss, which came in $4.72 Disney announced that its streaming empire – Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ — has grown to about 100 million subscribers worldwide.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2022

And in order to graduate from Cook you had to have at least a minor that was related, and I thought — I took an econ class and I kind of liked it, so I minored in environmental economics. I — because obviously, I’m like journalism, economics, I’m in Rutgers. I run it at a loss. RITHOLTZ: Interesting. BALCHUNAS: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 24, 2023

10 years ago you had the top economics, economists, investors in America writing a letter to the Fed in 2010 saying, “Hey, stop QE. And again, now that it’s become a global economic and political priority, it’s become a solution for spending as opposed to a risk. What’s entertaining the family?

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 18, 2023

And four nights a week, we were out to dinner, entertaining customers, getting to know them, talking about the markets, and that was an incredible education for me. And it was the most profitable day of trading I’d ever had. I was like talking through with him how the fund economics worked and what the upside was.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 6, 2025

And I kept roughly half the profits and there was no training. Oh my God profit. Not, not for me, $500 trading profit. Not, not for me, $500 trading profit. So vol of o of the op, an option has premium, and that premium is the extra amount you pay for the right to have limited loss and unlimited gain.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 13, 2023

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. We’re investing in profitable mid-market companies making 20 million, 25 million, 50 million EBITDA and needed capital in. A real company.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 8, 2024

You don’t go for a doctorate in economics. I mean, you know, realistically those contracts were really only worth the profit they generate in near term and putting a multiple on them didn’t make sense because there’s no annuity value, it’s not 00:30:24 [Speaker Changed] The pandemic.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

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. The visibility on earnings they grew but they stayed profitable as, as they grew. So big loss. A 99% loss on 1.1% So I took that. That was real money. Real money.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

STEVEN KLINSKY, FOUNDER, CEO AND MANAGING DIRECTOR, NEW MOUNTAIN CAPITAL: I come from the Detroit area of Michigan as a public school kid, went to University of Michigan and studied both economics and philosophy. You got 60 percent of losses ahead of you. Tell us what you were watching during the lockdown, what kept you entertained?

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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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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

MCCARTHY: I’d back up actually a little bit further in thinking about how did I get there, because I don’t think it was very obvious actually that I would come out of Yale with an ethics, politics and economics degree — RITHOLTZ: Perfect really, right? MCCARTHY: — and end up in M&A on Wall Street. RITHOLTZ: Is that true?

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

I found the book to be really entertaining and, and amusing and a little bit horrifying. It really is just a, a, a very entertaining book and I thought this conversation was, was absolutely fascinating. He sunk all the profits into Bitcoin, he’s levered up and borrowed money and bought Bitcoin. Tell us what is Ponzi nos?

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

And so, so we sort of felt pretty stupid for a while because we did a lot of losing trades in 2006 that were the, you know, that obviously didn’t come to fruition until the actual people could see the losses. So in mortgages, the borrower can stop paying maybe a year to two years before the lenders actually book a loss.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 11, 2023

They had the access to loss and excel really. And I think that’s a loss. And the second was, of course, the Warren Buffett story that came out the same week, where he essentially called people who post buybacks, you know, economically illiterate. It’s the entertainment value. That’s fascinating.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The motivations for the practice vary, and the payoff from CVC is debatable, but it is undeniable that CVC is growing as a segment of venture capital, and that it is not only affecting the pricing of the young companies that are targeted, but also altering the economics of venture capital, in the aggregate.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 8, 2025

But let’s start with your background in your career, applied mathematics and economics from Brown and then a Harvard MBA. And, you know, therein began, I think the unraveling and, and a little bit of the, the loss of that, you know, cultural juice that had kind of historically made that firm special. Lisa Shalett : Not at all.

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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

JANUARY 14, 2025

You graduate with a bachelor’s in economics. And if they make sure that there’s not gonna be massive losses at different tables on the same night, same weekend, same month, over time, they will just, just statistically accrue profits in a, in a more consistent manner. What’s keeping you entertained?

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