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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Planning Communication Profit and Loss Education 130

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 …. It’s late in the summer in 2022, markets sold off 22, 24 percent, recovered about half of those losses ….

Investments 114

Investments Marketing Profit and Loss Banking 114

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.

Investments 109

Investments Restructuring Profit and Loss Finance 109

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

And so, so we sort of felt pretty stupid for a while because we did a lot of losing trades in 2006 that were the, you know, that obviously didn’t come to fruition until the actual people could see the losses. So in mortgages, the borrower can stop paying maybe a year to two years before the lenders actually book a loss.

Profit and Loss 56

Profit and Loss Investments Marketing Securities 56

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

Ends up turning about $27 million of swap premiums into 2 billion plus in profit. 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?

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Treasury Economics Retail Entertainment 52