Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. Two reasons. How ridiculous is that?

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2017

JG: Paintzen is very math-based — and so we collect a number of variables and put them into our system to produce a match. KW: Do you put a cap on the number of painters allowed into the system? JG: It’s hard to say — we paint anything from bathrooms to large retailers. We don’t put a cap on it.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

STEVEN KLINSKY, FOUNDER, CEO AND MANAGING DIRECTOR, NEW MOUNTAIN CAPITAL: I come from the Detroit area of Michigan as a public school kid, went to University of Michigan and studied both economics and philosophy. I mean, those were the — that’s what got people all excited and — RITHOLTZ: That’s venture capital numbers.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

Consumers always have their debit card handy and and can provide that number to a sender – knowing that if something goes wrong they are protected. Senders don’t have to ask receivers for the ABA and routing number of the bank account they’d like the money deposited to either – and then when the 99.9

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

I had an economics lesson, I had a life lesson, I had an epiphany, I had a race relations lesson, I had a self-esteem and confidence lesson. Being broke is economic, but being poor is a disabling frame of mind, a depressed condition of your spirit. It’s home economics class, doesn’t exist anymore. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

Well, it is “an innovative new payment platform created to transform the payments industry by drastically altering the economics through Internet-based technology, generating significant consumer benefits.” They provide physical or virtual platforms (like a shopping mall) for multiple groups (like retailers and shoppers) to get together.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 20, 2024

As it turns out, there are ways you can use data to your advantage, even if you’re not a math wizard. And everyone answers for, except for the person they hire, whose answer was, what number did you have in mind? the number of periods over one, three, five, and 10 years where it beats its benchmark is extremely high.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

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. And it worked out and had multiple job offers coming out of school from a number of different insurance companies. So a variety of risk meetings, a variety of economic meetings.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 16, 2024

She has had a number of different positions within PIM, including managing their flagship core real estate fund. She has lived and invested through not just the great financial crisis, but the SNL crisis and a number of other fascinating experiences in real estate. If there was an error in a report or a number, I went ballistic.

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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. 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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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And like I say, that’s part of why it’s translated to a number of people coming to BlackRock and be with me today. RIEDER: So I had known Larry Fink and Rob Caputo, our CEO and president, for a number of years. And you know, it’s been an honor to have a number of awards to it. So yeah, man, that was the idea.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

In just one year, we saw an increase of 167 percent in the number of bridge millennials who shop during the week for groceries, and 33 percent more consumers now buy on weekdays than on weekends using digital and digital-first methods, compared to 29 percent more consumers buying on weekdays than on weekends in 2019.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 27, 2023

By ’08 and ’09, look, there were bankruptcies everywhere in every industry from retail to telecom. RITHOLTZ: There’s safety in numbers. since the ‘80s regarding economic mobility, that there used to be a huge ability to move up, or at least be in a better situation than your parents were. The numbers are correct.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2017

Dear Retailer: As tradition has it, the outgoing president of the United States, Barack Obama, will leave a note for the incoming president, Donald Trump, in the drawer of the president’s desk in the Oval Office. The parallels to physical retail, you have to admit, are pretty similar. RETAIL’S BIG SHOW. THE CENSUS DATA BOO-BOO.

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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

MARCH 12, 2024

So a lot of the headline names, you see a lot of the stories you see about, about the financial crisis, a significant number of, of those investors we were helping in security selection, modeling, and analytics. I’m assuming it’s primarily institutional and not retail. You’re actually crunching a lot of numbers.

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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. Barry Ritholtz: You know, the last time you were here, that number was something like 35 times. Before we get into the details of your career and and your work, how on earth is anyone ranked number one for 43 consecutive times?

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And I was a math nerd as a kid. And because my mother and grandmother were looking at these trying to figure out what was going on, I was curious about the sea of numbers. ’cause bad things can happen to undifferentiated retailers. It’s what the much maligned retail investor was doing. People are buying junk.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 20, 2023

That’s a shocking number. We looked at everything from retail to nursing homes to hospitals to insurance companies to manufacturers. I think there’s a number we have in the book, maybe $70 million or something in fees to take care of. It’s really attracting a lot of retail dollars.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 2, 2024

Really, the work he’s done on inequality came after the Nobel Prize based on a book him and his wife put out, and a number of papers. He is so knowledgeable about so many unusual areas in economics. But when I got to Cambridge, you know, the math was sort of serious there. He wrote, what, what can I say?

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 2, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So wait, you’re, I’m trying to do the math, if you were 24 in ‘08, so you got this watch in 2000, 99? FOWLER: Yes, I was at LVMH for a number of years, mostly with Louis Vuitton for the first few years. And then he proceeded to say, “Hodinkee is the greatest watch retailer on the planet. Here’s why.”

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

We’re in the business of sitting in between asset owners, financial advisors, institutions, retail and asset managers, right, the BlackRock, State Street, PIMCO’s of the world, and helping them understand each other. I have lots of different ways I can get that number to go up. It’s still a fairly small number.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

He was instrumental in getting a number of very positive policy actions passed over the past decade. I’ve interviewed a number of people from Revolution. But unfortunately, just as the product came to market, the whole Atari game market blew up, and retailers didn’t want any new products.

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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. Starting at the beginning of the administration in 2017.

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