Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And I did the math, and I think at that point in time, roughly speaking, assets in ETS were roughly just 10 percent, 12 percent of assets in mutual funds and I was pretty convinced that that number was to increase significantly. I mean, I do think there is a market for leverage and inverse ETFs out there.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 13, 2025

00:16:36 [Speaker Changed] Yeah, I’m, I’m not gonna check your math on that, but I’ll, I’ll buy Eric saying your, your estimate there on what we’ve saved investors over time. What’s keeping you entertained 00:38:42 [Speaker Changed] On the, what am I watching? 00:38:33 [Speaker Changed] Huh.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

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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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

And I did a lot of options math, which I thought was interesting. So I had some experience in Africa that was able to leverage for this role. Starting with what’s keeping you entertained these days? 00:07:26 And then I moved on to the equities team afterwards. And I just learned a tremendous amount.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

is about broadening access to knowledge, capital and well-being by leveraging existing networks and protocols, and building trusted brands. And you know, the only thing math works on recognition by peers, and there’s some prizes. There’s a whole bunch of infrastructure investments, infrastructures for building digital businesses.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2023

So I took it upon myself to go off and took a course in bond math, took another course in derivatives and realized the underlying fundamental concepts were barely, I mean, it wasn’t even high school math in most cases. But I would say generally, there’s less leverage in the system.

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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. Let me move on to my favorite questions that I asked all of my guests, starting with, what is keeping you entertained these days? RITHOLTZ: It was really fascinating. MIELLE: Yes. That really is funny.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

RITHOLTZ: Why is it not surprising that a math nerd is also a placekicker? And I met a woman who covered enterprise software at Goldman, and she gave me really great insight into how I could leverage the industry knowledge that I had developed at IBM. What’s been keeping you entertained post lockdown? RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 20, 2024

00:03:14 [Mike Greene] So that was actually an outgrowth from my experience coming out of Wharton and you mentioned the, the, you know, the transition of people who tended to be skilled at math or physics into finance. And so it is important that at least you’re able to entertain that. That’s amazing leverage.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 4, 2023

.” It’s really helpful to have had five other meetings with people who sit at analogous funds that had losses that were just as big, and in fact, they may have contributed to those losses more and be able to tell him, first off, your fund, just by my math, has a $250 million management fee. So it’s obvious.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

So that’s the math. There is still excess leverage in the system that I’m not sure how that’s gonna be resolved necessarily. Starting with tell us what you’re streaming, what, what’s keeping you entertained these days? We have like 8% growth built in for next year’s earnings growth.

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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. KLINSKY: Yeah. KLINSKY: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 21, 2024

I’m good at math and science and you know, I always had an idea what go into business, but I felt that electrical engineering would be a good foundation. You know, I, it always, I I see different numbers all the time, so it’s always kinda like, who’s math if you will? 00:02:16 [Speaker Changed] Me too.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 6, 2025

Sander Gerber : Well, actually I was good at math. Because if you don’t include every single data point, then in the matrix math you have a divide by zero issue. So it’s 10 to one, 20 to one, whatever the precisely the leverage they’re using. What, what’s keeping you entertained?

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 29, 2024

We wanna be sure that our communications tools leverage large language models so they can be highly personalized. In addition to cybersecurity, there’s also the third party rule, which is, which is RIAs and investment advisors that leverage third party providers to provide services to their clients.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

You know, people are comfortable, leverage builds. You know, the leverage in the system builds. How are we doing in literacy versus math versus science? And then all of a sudden, sometimes violently, it recalibrates. My sense is the Fed has gone far enough, doesn’t need to overtighten. Where are we?

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

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. We ask all of our guests starting with what have you been entertained with these days? So from a data perspective, think about it this way.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 8, 2025

00:31:40 [Speaker Changed] So there’s the emotions and then there’s the math, right? We’ve re levered the economy, if you will, where the leverage of the private sector, the household sector, the corporate sector that got us into the great financial crisis that’s been healed. In a very short period of time.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 15, 2024

I started out math and, and physics, and in high school I was a rock star in math and physics. It’s sort of goes from sort of worry about the leverage to, oh, we’re not worried about it. Tell us what’s keeping you entertained these days? And so I transferred to the business school after that.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 7, 2025

Leverage buyouts requires leverage. And when rates were so low, the leverage went, it was cheap and, and and easily accessible. Now we’re starting to come out of that now, but that math is still nowhere near where it needs to be. The institutional investor does not like that math. What does that even mean?

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 17, 2025

Wasn’t the Excel spreadsheet error, which changed their math. But that generally involves leverage, right? ’cause the economy wasn’t terrible, it was just over leveraged as we head in headed into the financial crisis. I mean that was, that was the problem. The problem is Japan is running two 50%.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

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. HOFFMAN: And he’s talking about, you know, the seat back entertainment should be a streaming platform, right? And that’s sort of the math. What’s keeping you entertained?

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Howard Lindzon, Social Leverage , is below. So with no further ado, my discussion with Social Leverage’s Howard Lindzon. HOWARD LINDZON, MANAGING PARTNER, SOCIAL LEVERAGE: Hello, Barry. The next step from there was that Social Leverage. This all is leverage from the network.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 8, 2024

I’d been ranked i i back in the seventies, if you can do the math. 00:31:28 [Speaker Changed] But you had no idea they were running a hundred to one leverage? Starting with what’s keeping you entertained these days? So at that point, I had a pretty big career. 00:52:12 [Speaker Changed] Unbelievable.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 20, 2023

Aren’t the big firms and the LBOs, the leveraged buyouts, very different than the middle market, smaller private equity firms that provide capital and equity to small companies. What’s keeping you entertained? So, let’s talk about a little bit of pushback. I’ve seen some criticisms and some stuff. RITHOLTZ: No.

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