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Transcript: Lynn Martin

Barry Ritholtz

I don’t know if those challenges would have been as extreme as was forecasted or not, but I’m really glad we didn’t find out. They may want to expand their business through leveraging a community that the listings market, particularly the NYSE brings to the table. RITHOLTZ: Yeah. To say the very least.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

Barry Ritholtz

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 …. What did you do to entertain them? RITHOLTZ: Applied Mathematics, Quants, those guys, yeah. I love statistics.

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Transcript: Rick Rieder

Barry Ritholtz

You know, people are comfortable, leverage builds. You know, the leverage in the system builds. You don’t know where, and you know, their forecast — RITHOLTZ: That goes back to your sense that you need the ability to surprise when necessary. How are we doing in literacy versus math versus science?

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Transcript: Sean Dobson, Amherst Holdings

Barry Ritholtz

It’s that the, so that’s the core competency and it’s just leveraged into, if it’s a loan, if it’s a security backed by a loan, if it’s the actual estate itself. Now it’s dangerous to forecast that far in the future because behavior can change. And we’re seeing it in that castle data.

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Transcript: Liz Hoffman

Barry Ritholtz

I mean, you’re talking about, I don’t, I could do the math, it’s like a 10,000% return in like three weeks. And it was just such a good reminder that like, there was no ability to forecast this. HOFFMAN: And he’s talking about, you know, the seat back entertainment should be a streaming platform, right?

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Transcript: Ed Hyman

Barry Ritholtz

He is one of those people who focuses on figuring out what’s happening here and now, and is less concerned about making forecasts about the future. I’d been ranked i i back in the seventies, if you can do the math. So, so let’s talk a little bit about forecasts. Ed is a fascinating guy. His clients adore him.

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Transcript: Dave Nadig

Barry Ritholtz

And I literally just started putting adjectives and nouns on piece of paper, trying to figure out like how do I describe the work that I think I should be doing, and that hopefully, people find at least entertaining, if not valuable? I read all those academic papers, I understand where the math comes from. It’s how math works.

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