Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

And I did a lot of options math, which I thought was interesting. So during my time there, I was probably employee number four or five. ’cause these are companies and in some cases countries that were never really fully integrated into the global financial system. So we were strategy number four at aerial.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Take, for example, how the Fed views statistics, such as employment numbers, when it’s thinking about inflation or raising rates so quickly, which is really constraining to people on an actual budget facing other inflationary pressures, and, by the way, not actually doing anything about inflation. So those numbers are disparate.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

It’s like being asked to figure out the solution to one of those unsolved math problems that mathematicians work on for years before they go insane. A number of car companies are going with Apple or Google platforms. WhatsApp did it, why can’t I? Once they get it into it, they realize that figuring out the solution is really hard.

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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. Like that solves like a number of issues.

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

Bitcoin uses math — and math equations that anyone can solve and see — to provide this cash-like feature. Speaking of math, doing it helps explain that big billion dollar-plus number. Experts believe that number could double again in 2017. Back here in the U.S. —

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 6, 2022

So just most technology has been a little bit more either the pipes and infrastructure of how the financial system runs or something that lets people buy the products that they want to buy because they can just go online and buy it. And if you went through the math, it gave us hundreds of hours that a typical firm would spend.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And like I say, that’s part of why it’s translated to a number of people coming to BlackRock and be with me today. RIEDER: So I had known Larry Fink and Rob Caputo, our CEO and president, for a number of years. And you know, it’s been an honor to have a number of awards to it. So yeah, man, that was the idea.

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