PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

They are the very businesses that make America’s cities, towns and urban centers lively and vibrant and interesting — and make our communities culturally, socially and economically strong. Most businesses, SMBs included, plan for rainy days, and have access to capital of some kind to smooth over those lumpy cash flow crunches.

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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. So you have all of this very pragmatic experience as opposed to getting a PhD in economics, which tends to be a little more abstract and academic. And he had this game plan. That’s just unprecedented. On the ball, right.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

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. What, what was the career plan? Just really, really interesting. So I was at Harvard.

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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. Was the plan always to cover finance? RITHOLTZ: Retail just is nothing at all.

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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?

Investments 57

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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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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

JANUARY 16, 2024

Cathy Marcus : 00:01:56 [Cathy Marcus] And I’m very fortunate that it worked out because there’s no plan B there. I was always good at math, but I really, I just didn’t relate to things that were more esoteric bonds options. I like the idea of kind of urban planning. You can see I did not study anything else.

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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

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And I was a math nerd as a kid. And the division that I was in was below plan. ’cause bad things can happen to undifferentiated retailers. It’s what the much maligned retail investor was doing. And the value line has all these statistical patterns. They announced a $640 million loss and ouch. Real money.

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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. There’s definitely demand from retail and there’s plenty of supply in the asset management business side.

Finance 108

Finance Investments Math Marketing 108

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 27, 2023

Was that where you plan to go? By ’08 and ’09, look, there were bankruptcies everywhere in every industry from retail to telecom. 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. But let’s roll back a little bit.

Investments 110

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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. RITHOLTZ: So it’s different math then I need 100x winner versus 99? It’s the big Canadian asset plans.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 103

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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. So a variety of risk meetings, a variety of economic meetings. And Greg Davis just does an amazing job. I thought this was a really fascinating conversation. I think you will also.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

But unfortunately, just as the product came to market, the whole Atari game market blew up, and retailers didn’t want any new products. The math never seems to work out. CASE: Well, when we decided to do a road trip, we planned this for more than six months in advance. Is that way fair way to start? RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Was that something you were planning on doing or — RIEDER: No. RIEDER: And all of a sudden, you change the economic paradigm so darn fast. You know, when you see retailers, the Targets, Walmarts, you know, they’re changing in terms of dropping price. How are we doing in literacy versus math versus science?

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