Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

But as a private equity owner, again, first of all, you do invest heavily of your own money in the transactions, plus you have additional ownership through, you know, the carried interest, the profits interests. You got 60 percent of losses ahead of you. RITHOLTZ: So it’s different math then I need 100x winner versus 99?

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 103

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

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

And so these were two stories, maybe three, before I’m 9-years-old of bad economics, bad culture, and a bad business plan. Different risk tolerance and different business plan. When you’re going to chill in the evening, I’m preparing my next business plan. They have a dumb business plan. RITHOLTZ: Right.

Economics 57

Economics Education Profit and Loss Banking 57

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 so, in Q2, we heard a lot that recession wasn’t the base case, but they’re — they’re planning. RITHOLTZ: Applied Mathematics, Quants, those guys, yeah. I love statistics.

Investments 116

Investments Marketing Profit and Loss Banking 116

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

Was the plan always to cover finance? 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. We’ll get into that in a minute.

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Treasury Economics Retail Entertainment 52

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

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. He knows how to manage risk, and he knows how to trade for a profit for a p and l. And occasionally people are gonna argue about, Hey, who has this loss? Or who has this profit?

Marketing 108

Marketing Treasury Banking Profit and Loss 108

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 23, 2022

So, I did the math, 20 million times a hundred. So, let me just repeat the math. And so, again, I went through this simple math. BROWDER: And I’ll just point out that this was back in the days when $100 million profit is real money. How many do you have in your fleet? It is $2 billion on the ship. RITHOLTZ: Wow.

Investments 126

Investments Math Banking Profit and Loss 126

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 22, 2023

So I thought, you know, I was in the Justice Department, I clerked for the Supreme Court, I had career plans, and the idea of just sitting in an office and thinking, what ideas do I have, that didn’t feel really like living. Humans are rational profit-maximizers, we’re not. SUNSTEIN: That’s what I was fearful of.

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