Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

So I think that resiliency piece, never giving up, never giving in, redefining, Barry, success as going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm, I think that’s everything. Poverty, sustenance poverty is a roof over your head, food on your table, reasonable healthcare, it’s a sustenance, the ability to sustain yourself.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

I was hired to cover, I think, securities litigation or insurance regulation, something like truly technical and awful. 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.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 2, 2024

Healthcare minimum wage. So when I was at this very fancy private school that I was at as a kid, I did math because it gave me a huge amount of free time to do the things I really cared about. But when I got to Cambridge, you know, the math was sort of serious there. So, you know, I took my math into statistics and things.

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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 that’s how we created the securities division. We now had the securities business.

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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.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 22, 2023

And whether they were producing new ideas about the economic analysis of law or new ideas about what freedom means or new ideas about the securities law, it was like, it was electric. SUNSTEIN: In Chicago, and it was about social security law and anti-poverty law. It was like Paris. And that was one of my courses. RITHOLTZ: In Chicago.

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