Economics Forecasting Healthcare Math 
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. And big consumer and healthcare. GMO is kind of famous for doing seven year forecasts, right? Finance was the natural fit for GMO. So I was at Harvard.
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
Healthcare, education, not hugely cyclical, not interest rate sensitive. 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. RIEDER: Yeah.
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.
Barry Ritholtz
OCTOBER 3, 2023
 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Gary Cohn, Director of the National Economic Council, President of Goldman Sachs , is below. 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. Your chief economic advisor to the president.
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