PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

While consumers were being entertained, they were also shown “See Now Buy Now” fashion shows and prompted via interactive apps to download coupons, raffle tickets, gift certificates, etc. JD.com is really good at math,” Shuai noted. “If Jack Ma even made a surprise appearance as the “retail-tainment-in-chief.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

So, today, having suffered through another 12 weeks of entertaining children who’ve long since grown hot, bored and generally unruly, the most wonderful time of the year has come again for the nation’s moms and dads: It’s officially back-t0-school shopping time. While shopping, she explains why she is so, so happy to be doing so.

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PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2016

Thousands of Americans will take to the nation’s ballparks this weekend as Americans celebrating the nation’s independence will look to the nation’s national pastime for the entertainment, likely combined with a fireworks display of some kind. exist at all kinds of price points.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2016

Geography and basic math, it would appear. MLB stadiums have done that math and concluded that they can charge people pretty much whatever they please (within reason, although that concept gets a little more liberal every season) and the fans will still turn out.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I’d say management consulting is any of the other thing that least at that time was the other career trajectory, just my personality, more of a math oriented introvert. What’s been keeping you entertained either video or audio? Learn math, learn history. Finance was the natural fit for GMO. So I was at Harvard.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. What kept you entertained during the pandemic?

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

She has a really fascinating background, very eclectic, a combination of math and law. You, you get a, a BS in Mathematics and a JD from Boston University Math and Law. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child. I didn’t get an advanced degree in math. Not the usual combination. What happened?

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Let me jump to all my favorite questions we ask all of our guests, starting with what did you do to keep yourself entertained during the pandemic? I understood then that, effectively, fair value was determined by a variety of mathematical — a bunch of math, for lack of a better description. RITHOLTZ: That’s interesting.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 9, 2024

So like a component of it was like the standard derivatives math, right? And so like, you know, I got there and I learned derivatives math, right? It was derivatives math, it was like working with the traders on like risk management. What’s keeping you entertained? Starting with what are you streaming these days?

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And you know, the only thing math works on recognition by peers, and there’s some prizes. And yet, the amount of math that’s been produced over the last, you know, few decades is just mind-blowing extraordinary. There’s like the famous Fields Medal, and there’s some other prizes.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2020

But to understand how that thinking and those behaviors will influence the direction of the connected economy over the next decade, we need to start with a little math. Something very different can happen, though — something that math geeks (and I am not one of them) call a jump discontinuity. The line is chugging along.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So it’s different math then I need 100x winner versus 99? Tell us what you were watching during the lockdown, what kept you entertained? We’ve never had a business — again, go out of business or not paying interest payment. And the question is, you know, how high we can build? KLINSKY: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

RITHOLTZ: Why is it not surprising that a math nerd is also a placekicker? What’s been keeping you entertained post lockdown? I love what those guys are doing in terms of sports and entertainment. But really, even that experience was about building great friends that I played football with. RITHOLTZ: Right. SHAW: Yeah.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 1, 2022

As a starting point, it’s important to recognize that while conversations in the financial services industry over the last decade have entertained the idea that technology (e.g., robo-advisors) might someday replace human advisors, there are still many elements of financial planning that benefit from engagement with a human advisor.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

BRYANT: So money, unlike math, money is highly emotional. I mean, there’s 50,000 kids in the Atlanta public school system, so you can do the math there. I believe I love math because it doesn’t have an opinion, that’s a Melody Hobson quote. RITHOLTZ: Right. BRYANT: Number two, money is emotional. RITHOLTZ: Yes.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. Some people look at a casino as entertainment and hey, we’re gonna spend X dollars, pick a number, 500, 2000, whatever it is.

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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. What’s been keeping you entertained? I didn’t know what any of these terms meant.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 6, 2023

RITHOLTZ: Dining, entertainment, things like that. So first, none of these people, they don’t track their spending, there’s no budget, there’s not even the mental buckets of, I’m going to spend this much on entertainment and this much on rent. It’s much deeper than math. SETHI: Fantastic.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

You don’t want to get on the scale, you don’t want to know how much money you spent on entertainment last month. So, got to project this, got to model this, let’s run the numbers, let’s see how this would work, what the math would boil out to for my situation. There’s this gap between the two. Well, yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So hold the duration risk aside with those two, but just for an investor in treasuries, I know you’ve done the math before. If you’re giving up that 1% big fat yield in 2019, 2021, let’s say you give up three years of 1% and get zero, how does the math work over the subsequent couple of years?

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

And you start doing the math of the staff, and you’re like, “I can hire people for less than this.” ” I’ve seen a lot of industry discussion that’s essentially, the math of it can be better on the RIA side because you just don’t have to pay for the things that you don’t need in your platform.

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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 think I mentioned earlier, I have like a four-and-a-half-year-old that keeps me really entertain.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

So what was challenging for me was like, actually, when we moved to the US when I was seven years old, I was always good with math, but my English was below average. Tell us a little bit about what you’ve been streaming, what’s been keeping you entertained these days. ” RITHOLTZ: (LAUGHTER) DAVIS: And it really was.

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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. What did you do to entertain them? And so, you know, at face value you think it’s an entertaining story, but there’s a lot of, you know, undercurrents in it. I love statistics.

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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. And I, I think that I kind of triangulated on it. I have no family history. I have no, I, you know, knew a real estate developer I thought was really great. I knew I wanted to do something in business.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

How are we doing in literacy versus math versus science? I know I only have you for a limited amount of time, so let me jump to my favorite questions that I asked all of our guests, starting with, tell us what you’ve been streaming these days, what’s been keeping you entertained? Where are we?

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 27, 2023

By the way, you show the math in the book very, very easily and understandable for those who may not be as mathy, which is basically a giant fund collecting 2 percent is much better than a smaller fund that’s killing it, but they’re not starting out with a lot of assets. RITHOLTZ: That’s hilarious. That really is funny.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 27, 2023

And so it’s one of these things that math works. Tell us about Math for America that seeks to improve math education in US public schools. BORISH: So Robinhood Foundation, Math for America, those are the two not-for-profit boards that I sit on. So we’ve done two things at Math for America.

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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. WEINSTEIN: Revenge traveling.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2017

Other options for live entertainment and other circus competitors had beaten them to that punch by devising experiences less dependent on animal acts to scintillate the crowds. in math or economics to see that this data is just plain wrong. So was reinventing itself, it seemed. Meaning, even more stores will close. THE EYES DON’T LIE.

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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

So the master plan community of the United States, other than maybe the Woodlands in Houston, very few of them are actually master plan for multiple product types where you have office, medical, civil, residential, entertainment, all kind of thought about together the way you would, the way European cities were developed.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2017

So, we entertain anything coming in that would be of value,” Holmes told Webster, noting that most other such conversations never got much past the “initial chat” because that bigger value wasn’t there. But in the U.S., Webster noted, Alipay is known — if it is known at all — as a Chinese brand.

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2017

“FanDuel decided to merge with DraftKings last November, because we believed that this deal would have increased investment in growth and product development, thereby benefiting consumers and the greater sports entertainment industry.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And I was a math nerd as a kid. What’s kept you entertained these days? So my grandmother realizing that this was her source of income, wanted to be sure she had the right stocks, and she got a trial subscription for 29 bucks for 13 weeks of the value line. And the value line has all these statistical patterns.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 20, 2023

So, it’s not one of these fuzzy math situations where you don’t really know what the value of the fund is because it’s got private companies in it that are being marked by individuals who have an ax to grind in the mark. What’s keeping you entertained? And so, you know where you stand. 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. Starting with what’s keeping you entertained these days? Tell us a little bit about the plan for launching an independent economics research 00:09:15 [Speaker Changed] Shop. So at that point, I had a pretty big career. Really, really interesting.

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