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

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

JANUARY 16, 2024

I was always good at math, but I really, I just didn’t relate to things that were more esoteric bonds options. What better investment outcomes could we have by leveraging our data? So we have lots of data that we can leverage. And I, I think that I kind of triangulated on it. I have no family history.

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

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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 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

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

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

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

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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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

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

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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