Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 27, 2023

.” RITHOLTZ: So people also should realize, for those of you who’ve never traded futures, it’s not like options where essentially you could put up your losses in advance and all they could do is go to zero. RITHOLTZ: Put up your losses in advance. And again, really kudos to Paul for his leadership in doing that.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 28, 2024

00:11:35 [Speaker Changed] I mean, I couldn’t wish for better shareholding group because with AEOs we got a, a tremendous powerhouse behind us, a very financially profitable organization. How do you cope with that loss of talent? So do my colleagues on the, on the leadership level. What keeps you entertained?

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

So I think that resiliency piece, never giving up, never giving in, redefining, Barry, success as going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm, I think that’s everything. And like every business, they want revenue and they’d like to have a surplus profit. My dad thought that cash flow was profit.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 24, 2023

So you did not have policy or political leadership that was very inspiring. You’ve seen job losses in goods producing sectors, manufacturing, auto, construction. The AI boom is coming at the right time where you could see wages, profits rising simultaneously where inflation is relatively contained. RITHOLTZ: Yes.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 18, 2023

And four nights a week, we were out to dinner, entertaining customers, getting to know them, talking about the markets, and that was an incredible education for me. And it was the most profitable day of trading I’d ever had. And in real estate lending, that’s all about avoiding loss. in the evening.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 21, 2024

I had no money back in 87, but certainly, you know, some of the managing directors and other people that had some money, they, they made quite a, quite a bit of of profits on, on some of the left for dead Microsoft and others that were just, you know, sold to very low levels as 00:06:28 [Speaker Changed] Opposed.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

I found the book to be really entertaining and, and amusing and a little bit horrifying. It really is just a, a, a very entertaining book and I thought this conversation was, was absolutely fascinating. He sunk all the profits into Bitcoin, he’s levered up and borrowed money and bought Bitcoin. That’s right.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

Ends up turning about $27 million of swap premiums into 2 billion plus in profit. The next quarter Netflix announced it’s like first subscriber, either slowing growth or loss, I don’t remember, and sort of kicked off this now two year kind of slow bleed of peak streaming. What’s keeping you entertained?

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

And so you had a situation where you could take big positions in the euro dollar market, affect the price and the cash market and actually make a profit. I don’t remember if she did it as 00:31:41 [Speaker Changed] We’ve been very lucky in terms of the leadership of the Fed. You have a big repo market.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 24, 2023

So he, he followed the polarization in the country around the vaccines rather than necessarily driving it leadership. Barry Ritholtz: 00:07:43 [Speaker Changed] Leadership. Profiteering fraud. It just, the, the, the profiteering really was utterly insane. That’s that’s amazing. Absolute disaster.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 14, 2025

And if they make sure that there’s not gonna be massive losses at different tables on the same night, same weekend, same month, over time, they will just, just statistically accrue profits in a, in a more consistent manner. And the actual p and l that you can generate profit loss you can generate is small, valid for that effort.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 24, 2024

These are ethically compromised executives who are just hell bent on increasing profits by any means necessary. I kind of think since Bezos left, the people who are there are just focused on how do we max out profitability and the hell with the user experience, which wasn’t what it felt like under Bezos. Its culture, its tactics.

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