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

AUGUST 17, 2023

Americans still have jobs and are continuing to spend — on plastic surgery, motorcycles and cruises — leading many to revise their doom-and-gloom forecasts. This summer’s economy is defying the odds. Washington Post ) • The Anti-California: How Montana performed a housing miracle : Montana had a supply crisis.

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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 21, 2023

RITHOLTZ: Right, ASNESS: Compared to any forecast or trailing version of inflation and doing that consistently through time, bonds were about tied with giving you the least they’ve ever given you. But we don’t trade on a 10-year forecast. But imagine you have a forecast. This is a 5 to 10-year view. 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

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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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

So as much as I’m personally still a pretty strong skeptic of active management, I mean, I understand the math, and the odds are not in your favor. I read all those academic papers, I understand where the math comes from. It’s how math works. There’s no economic incentive for anybody to change any of that.

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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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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 30, 2022

points hit in November and compared to market forecasts of 40. How did they do it?” • For math mavens! “The Chicago PMI in the United States increased to 44.9 points in December of 2022 recovering slightly from a 30-month low of 37.20 Happy New Year! * * *.

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