Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

I mean, I didn’t want to blow my own trumpet up too much because most of the positions were in place, the quality funds, which more defensive and less leveraged, and low allocation to — a relatively low allocation to equities, and then the hedge funds sort of long/short positions that benefited in the financial crisis.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

You know, people are comfortable, leverage builds. So the idea being, you know, that we could analyze, dissect companies anywhere from, you know, senior securities, secured down to distressed. So I think there are 4,800 equities, different securities globally. You know, the leverage in the system builds.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

But like a glacier, Lehman was only the visible part of a system marked by high leverage and the churn that takes place with derivatives trading, asset-backed securities sliced and diced into pools – and, of course, a housing market that required little to no proof that borrowers could actually pay their mortgages.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

But like a glacier, Lehman was only the visible part of a system marked by high leverage and the churn that takes place with derivatives trading, asset-backed securities sliced and diced into pools – and, of course, a housing market that required little to no proof that borrowers could actually pay their mortgages.

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OCTOBER 1, 2018

Yet, what’s amazing to me is that we are still, as an industry, talking about it — bitcoin, now crypto, blockchain — as if its potential to revolutionize our global financial system, and the way money moves between parties around the world, is just around the corner. But as the salvation of our global financial system, not even close.

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APRIL 11, 2019

It should be noted that the Wednesday (April 10) testimony, en masse, represented the largest gathering of banking heads since the financial crisis itself. Disparate lines of questioning took discussion, from the state of the financial system to guns, and from cryptos to executive compensation.

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MARCH 18, 2020

Whenever a seismic event comes on the scene, and threatens to swamp the financial system and the U.S. That sentiment was echoed, at least in part, Wednesday (March 18) in an op-ed that ran in the Financial Times , penned by Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen, former heads of the U.S. This time is different, as the saying goes.

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APRIL 11, 2019

It should be noted that the Wednesday (April 10) testimony, en masse, represented the largest gathering of banking heads since the financial crisis itself. Disparate lines of questioning took discussion, from the state of the financial system to guns, and from cryptos to executive compensation.

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JULY 23, 2018

Economics, of course, is an internal event, as well as an external one, that crosses borders via trade. The move, Reuters noted, is one that seeks to offset some of the impact of the aforementioned trade war, which could include a slowdown of overall economic growth. China’s Lending Rates In Crosshairs.

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