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Transcript: Matt Levine

Barry Ritholtz

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, like the, you know, like the accounting standards. Like I was, I was not expecting that.

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Most Platforms Can’t Scale, Will Fail

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They provide physical or virtual platforms (like a shopping mall) for multiple groups (like retailers and shoppers) to get together. Put yourselves in the shoes of the Revolution Money team back in 2007, pitching its platform to retailers and consumers. Platforms’ Critical Success Factor: Crossing the Critical Mass Frontier.

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You’re Living in a World Wrought by Central Banks. Notice Anything Wrong?

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NP: If you’re participating in a market that’s going up, obviously the more you’re participating, whether as the head of a company that has options for stocks, or as an investor, or as the retail person who is placing just the little bit they have on it, then you’re going to benefit from that proportion of upside because you’re in it.

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Transcript: Rick Rieder

Barry Ritholtz

You know, part of why I read inventory numbers at retailers, you know, you talked about semis earlier, I think you have to think about the whole construct of what’s driving topline revenue for companies. You know, when you see retailers, the Targets, Walmarts, you know, they’re changing in terms of dropping price.

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Transcript: Michael Lewis on SBF & FTX

Barry Ritholtz

Because he was all sure he was a totally isolated math. So, so he’s brilliant at math. He goes to m i t to study, study physics and math. So brilliant enough so that sure, he goes to math camp in the summer and find, kind of finds his tribe. But in math camp, he’s not the best. And the Undoing project.

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Why It’s Time To Shut Down Cryptocurrencies

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The ability to use an anonymous single currency to power a decentralized, permissionless distributed ledger operating over the public internet where miners compete to solve the math problems that enable the processing of transactions is a remarkable innovation. In concept. At least I hope so.

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Transcript: Ed Hyman

Barry Ritholtz

I’d been ranked i i back in the seventies, if you can do the math. Don’t write it down, but they surveyed retailers. Like re like retail for example, or autos, trucking companies, you name it. How do you measure GDP two weeks or three weeks after the quarter ends or retail sales eight days after the month ends.