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A Cost Benefit Analysis of Work from Home

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Don’t get me wrong – employee satisfaction definitely affects profits. My finance team performed a rigorous cost benefit analysis of working from home and hybrid work versus our baseline of 100% working from office. Productivity is the net of all efficiency gains and losses. There is more to work than profits.

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In Search of Safe Havens: The Trust Deficit and Risk-free Investments!

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If you do assume that markets will price away this excess profit, you then have the basis for the models that are used to value options and other derivative assets. Not only was this an indication of how dollar-centric much of finance education used to be, but also of how much faith there was that the US treasury was default-free.

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Transcript: Charlie Ellis

Barry Ritholtz

ELLIS: Well, it starts with one very simple proposition, nobody is making a profit. Every other investment organization got a problem that somebody is taking money out of the pot every day, every month, every year as a profit. RITHOLTZ: I’ve been educated with this book, so it’s deep in my thought process.

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Transcript: Mathieu Chabran

Barry Ritholtz

And so today, I think that part of the IG fixed rate corporate bond market, obviously part of the real estate, and we’ve been talking at length about that, we have to suffer some of the pain or losses in some way shape or form. If you hit certain targets, certain goals, extra financial goals, then you will improve your cost of funding.