Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 27, 2023

Was that where you plan to go? I wanted to see the world, and whether it was investment banking, or basket weaving really had absolutely no bearing on my decision. RITHOLTZ: You describe what we now call junk bonds, we used to call high yield, what we now call distressed investing, we used to call vulture investing.

Investments 110

Investments Restructuring Profit and Loss Finance 110

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

A launch date was planned. It’s a storyline with some very strong parallels to the cryptocurrency stories being told and the investments that they now garner. These early advocates have stimulated a vast amount of investment into this vision; $1.7 Their beta version was a suit they were making just for him.

Currencies 71

Currencies Concentration Financial Systems Investments 71

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

Sean Dobson has really had a fascinating career as a real estate investor, starting pretty much at the bottom and working his way up to becoming a investor in a variety of mortgage backed securities, individual homes, commercial real estate, really all aspects of the finding, buying and investing in, in real estate. Was impeccable, right?

Profit and Loss 57

Profit and Loss Investments Marketing Securities 57

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

You fell in love with investing as an 8-year-old. And I was a math nerd as a kid. But in the New York Times, there was an advertisement that the value line investment survey needed analysts. They announced a $640 million loss and ouch. And the division that I was in was below plan. Tell us about that. Real money.

Benchmarking 103

Benchmarking Concentration Investments Profit and Loss 103

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

Was the plan always to cover finance? At that point, I’d been covering, as you mentioned, investment banking, Goldman Sachs for a couple years. And so the key components of any investment are like thesis, expression, and timing, right? Ends up turning about $27 million of swap premiums into 2 billion plus in profit.

Treasury 52

Treasury Economics Retail Entertainment 52

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

How fundamental was that to your learning about investing, trading risk management, starting with futures? 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.

Marketing 108

Marketing Treasury Banking Profit and Loss 108

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 23, 2022

Like investing in this kind of stuff and I had total life saving for the time of $2,000 and I converted my total life savings of $2,000 into Polish zloty, their currency, went down with my translator to the post office and subscribed to the very first privatization in Poland. I want to be investing in this privatization in Eastern Europe.

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. So if you get a group of people who tend to think, you know, we ought to invest in X, take your pick.

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