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What Walmart’s Resurgence Means For Retail And The “Pays”

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He didn’t think much of math and science — rather unusual given his choice of a profession that uses complicated math formulas to communicate. His economic principles were what inspired President Lyndon B. For instance, economics, he once said , is a useful form of employment for economists.

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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

Barry Ritholtz

And Tom has helped with the introduction of GMO’s first retail product, the quality ETF stock symbol Q-L-T-Y-G-M-O has been institutional since they launched in 1977. This is the first time they’re putting out a product for retail. GMO has released last quarter their first retail product an ETFI love the symbol QLTY.

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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

Barry Ritholtz

Few people are in a position to see what’s going on in the world of investing, whether it’s institutional or retail, better than Vanguard CIO. So a variety of risk meetings, a variety of economic meetings. DAVIS: Yes, we try not to be in the short-term forecasting game. And Greg Davis just does an amazing job.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

Barry Ritholtz

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. And so, with this gave me exposure to everything from investment banking to retail, looking at like checking account campaigns, like how do you get more assets in the door to credit risk.

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Transcript: Rick Rieder

Barry Ritholtz

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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Transcript: Liz Hoffman

Barry Ritholtz

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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Transcript: Sean Dobson, Amherst Holdings

Barry Ritholtz

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.