Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KLINSKY: In 1979, it was the first leveraged buyout of a public company. We had sold the family business, maybe buy another family business one day through a leveraged buyout. RITHOLTZ: That’s pretty safe.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 103

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Leverage Numbers 103

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. BITTERLY MICHELL: Not in leveraged, no, not at all, give more …. It’s late in the summer in 2022, markets sold off 22, 24 percent, recovered about half of those losses ….

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Investments Marketing Profit and Loss Banking 116

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

Ends up turning about $27 million of swap premiums into 2 billion plus in profit. 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. And that’s sort of the math. They’d come into the pandemic incredibly leveraged, huge amounts of debt.

Treasury 52

Treasury Economics Retail Entertainment 52

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It’s, it’s no different But, but inherently in futures, a whole lot more leverage, a whole lot more risk. You’re doing a lot of math in your head on the Fly. I’m doing, I’m doing an awful lot of math in my head on the fly. And occasionally people are gonna argue about, Hey, who has this loss?

Marketing 108

Marketing Treasury Banking Profit and Loss 108