CFO Share
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
Don’t get me wrong – employee satisfaction definitely affects profits. My finance team performed a rigorous cost benefit analysis of working from home and hybrid work versus our baseline of 100% working from office. Productivity is the net of all efficiency gains and losses. Slower delivery due to difficulty collaborating.
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
AUGUST 15, 2023
If you do assume that markets will price away this excess profit, you then have the basis for the models that are used to value options and other derivative assets. The most obvious reason is economic, where a crisis and collapse in government revenues, from taxes and other sources, causes a government to be unable meet its obligations.
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.
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. So what do our experiences, post-financial crisis, post-COVID, tell us about the need for balance between monetary and fiscal stimulus?
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