Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 27, 2023

And so that’s when I thought, you know, there might be a hole in the market. It can be even a change in regulation or in market, where suddenly volatility picks up and the interest of bondholders and shareholders are at odds. It’s just the bonds were trading horribly, just because liquidity was gone for the market.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 27, 2023

And then covering, not in the mayhem of that Monday, but pretty close to the bottom tick on Tuesday, really just a fascinating career, a unique perspective on markets. I found this to be a master class in a humble approach to markets and being aware of your own limitations in order to obtain the best possible results as a trader and investor.

Math 56

Math Risk Management Profit and Loss Marketing 56

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

So your doctoral thesis asserted that consistently beating market averages was attainable by exploiting both value and momentum. Because, you know, there’s this constant fight in academia, if you believe something works, does it work because markets are efficient in its compensation for risk, or for behavioral reasons?

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

This is the back when mortgages were sort of a backwater of the fixed income market. It takes quite a lot of, of research, quite a lot of modeling, quite a lot of data to actually keep up with the mortgage market. By the time you get to the early 2000s, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and me were losing market share.

Profit and Loss 56

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And I was a math nerd as a kid. So again, so it came back out to the market and it held on to all the pieces except Danaher. They announced a $640 million loss and ouch. What’s the most current data point that may not have filtered into the market? They’d say it’s a crap market. Many years ago.

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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.

Treasury 52

Treasury Economics Retail Entertainment 52

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 2, 2024

He is so knowledgeable about so many unusual areas in economics. You’re the author of 200 plus papers, six books, deaths of Despair, which you wrote with Anne Case who happens to be your wife, was a New York Times bestseller and your latest book, economics in America, an Immigrant Economist, explores the Land of inequality.

Healthcare 56

Healthcare Economics Math Education 56

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. Yeah, because it, the, the, the Hunt brothers, when they came into the Comex at the time, they were only buying one market. They were buying the, the Comex market. It was brand new.

Marketing 107

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 23, 2022

in Economics from Chicago and MBA from Stanford. He said, this is the number of shares outstanding of this one company that’s been privatized, and I said, what’s this number, he said the share price and multiply the two numbers together and that got you to a market cap of this company of $80 million. You have a B.A.

Investments 124

Investments Math Banking Profit and Loss 124

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 22, 2023

CASS SUNSTEIN, FOUNDER, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL’S PROGRAM ON BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS AND PUBLIC POLICY: Thank you, a great pleasure to be here. RITHOLTZ: There’s nobody in the world of economics or behavioral finance like Dick Thaler. I thought law and economics was extremely important and kind of on the right track.

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