Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 17, 2025

They’ve made forecasts, they’ve made predictions about what will and won’t happen, and none of it’s come true. And he’s this old British guy who was, you know, quite famous in England as a policy advisor and an economic forecaster. Wasn’t the Excel spreadsheet error, which changed their math.

Budgeting

The Big Picture

JUNE 16, 2025

Yeah, you have to, you know, the conceit of finance is that basically the math is all there is to it. So you mentioned half math, half Shakespeare. Let’s talk about the math side. Ivanka said, oh no, you don’t have to be able to do math to do real estate 00:20:13 [Speaker Changed] Or investing for that math.

Math

Adam Kae

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Models, Forecasts, Calculations, Oh My! You'll need to do some math to understand: where your breakeven is. Then, it's best to do some modeling and forecast the different acceptable scenarios based on your negotiations. It's more than a big smile and a "salesman" technique or two. Your Negotiation Strategy.

Math

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. And big consumer and healthcare. GMO is kind of famous for doing seven year forecasts, right? Learn math, learn history. So I was at Harvard.

Valuation

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. And I — I — I don’t like to ask people for predictions and forecasts, but you’re looking at the flows and you get client questions all the time. I was econ and kind of geeky.

Investments

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Healthcare, education, not hugely cyclical, not interest rate sensitive. You don’t know where, and you know, their forecast — RITHOLTZ: That goes back to your sense that you need the ability to surprise when necessary. How are we doing in literacy versus math versus science? RITHOLTZ: Right. RIEDER: Totally.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 21, 2024

I’m kind of in intrigued by the idea of philosophy and math. So I found myself getting kind of bored with my math problem sets, and then I could shift to philosophy and then go back and forth. When all the experts and forecasts agree, something else is gonna happen. What was the career plan? That’s right.

Finance