Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KLINSKY: In 1979, it was the first leveraged buyout of a public company. We had sold the family business, maybe buy another family business one day through a leveraged buyout. RITHOLTZ: That’s pretty safe.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Michael: So, it sounds like part of the challenge was, you live in a large company environment where, as is common for a lot of them, they organized study groups of top advisors, of top producers, of those that are doing well and growing well, and driving the business profitably. In fact, we probably would have been much more profitable.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. BITTERLY MICHELL: Not in leveraged, no, not at all, give more …. And so, it’s a little bit of an educational process, but …. RITHOLTZ: Applied Mathematics, Quants, those guys, yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 27, 2023

And these were real bankruptcies, led by a supply-demand imbalance, too much leverage and not enough demand for the products. It’s a matter of making better decisions and being more profitable. That’s an amazing lesson in life, right, to take failure and losses as business as usual. MIELLE: Yes. MIELLE: It is money.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

Barry Ritholtz : So, so let’s talk a little bit about your career in real estate, but before we get to that, I just gotta ask on your LinkedIn under education, it says, didn’t graduate, none working for a living. So in mortgages, the borrower can stop paying maybe a year to two years before the lenders actually book a loss.

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Profit and Loss Investments Marketing Securities 56