Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

He developed the Ginnie Mae contract, which at one time was a big thing in treasury bond contract. They announced a $640 million loss and ouch. But if, if it has a history of not being profitable, you you really want to exclude that. The visibility on earnings they grew but they stayed profitable as, as they grew.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Some people look at a casino as entertainment and hey, we’re gonna spend X dollars, pick a number, 500, 2000, whatever it is. And they go on longer and longer and obviously more profitable for the states that run the lottery. But it makes a big, big difference to your long-term outcomes if you can just avoid those big losses.

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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

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

MARCH 12, 2024

We participated in that with treasury and FHFA and the regulators, the White House. 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. The homes are here.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 8, 2025

And, you know, therein began, I think the unraveling and, and a little bit of the, the loss of that, you know, cultural juice that had kind of historically made that firm special. And when we experience a loss, right, a 50% loss can happen right? I don’t wanna experience loss. In a very short period of time.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

They don’t let the reporters into the fun stuff, but it’s a bunch of CEOs with Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury Secretary, and they’re all yakking about this, the big theme that year, as it often has been since then, was environment, ESG, and they’re all talking about the kind of corporate babble that you hear at these things.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

So, for example, the treasury was thinking about moving to direct deposit, but they wanted to know how much it was gonna cost them because direct deposit, they, they, they, they, the money clears, you know, sorry, almost instantly, right? So they wanna know how many days does it take a, a treasury check to get back to us.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 3, 2024

Now you have to assume some losses. Barry Ritholtz : And these bonds are still profitable Jeffrey Sherman : And they don’t break, like they, they don’t, they don’t, they don’t lose money, especially at 50 cents on dollar. Well, if you only care about yield, just go buy treasuries. And even treasuries.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Profiteering fraud. It just, the, the, the profiteering really was utterly insane. That the focus on profits, on pleasing shareholders and on profits that can be sustainable means that, that, that the response in a pandemic isn’t going to be what you think. Absolute disaster. And that was it.

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