Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. Two reasons. How ridiculous is that?

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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. KLINSKY: Yeah. KLINSKY: Yeah.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2016

It’s not exactly the sort of inspiring narrative that one might like to hear from a CFO – especially when framed in the context of five straight quarters of disappointing and precipitous declines and the retail giant’s worst performance in eight years. . First, overall, the government reported that retail sales were up – and by a lot.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 16, 2024

Cathy Marcus : 00:01:56 [Cathy Marcus] And I’m very fortunate that it worked out because there’s no plan B there. I was always good at math, but I really, I just didn’t relate to things that were more esoteric bonds options. I like the idea of kind of urban planning. You can see I did not study anything else.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And before that, Morgan Stanley, doing technology and operations planning for the wealth and asset management group. It has to be such a different set, the retirement planning is different, the safety net is different. And definitely, their retail market participation is significantly lower than you can see in the U.S.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And so, with this gave me exposure to everything from investment banking to retail, looking at like checking account campaigns, like how do you get more assets in the door to credit risk. I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

You know, people are comfortable, leverage builds. Was that something you were planning on doing or — RIEDER: No. You know, the leverage in the system builds. You know, when you see retailers, the Targets, Walmarts, you know, they’re changing in terms of dropping price. You said BlackRock absorbed R3.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 56

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 27, 2023

Was that where you plan to go? By ’08 and ’09, look, there were bankruptcies everywhere in every industry from retail to telecom. And these were real bankruptcies, led by a supply-demand imbalance, too much leverage and not enough demand for the products. But let’s roll back a little bit. You get an MBA at Stanford.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

A launch date was planned. The ability to use an anonymous single currency to power a decentralized, permissionless distributed ledger operating over the public internet where miners compete to solve the math problems that enable the processing of transactions is a remarkable innovation. Crowds had assembled for the launch. In concept.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

Was the plan always to cover finance? RITHOLTZ: Retail just is nothing at all. hey, there’s no retail, order online. 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. Wait, you’re selling video games in retail shops in malls?

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

I’m assuming it’s primarily institutional and not retail. Imagine setting up a platform with, you know, in 32 markets that has to buy each individual home and execute a CapEx plan on a 30, $40,000 CapEx plan on a home. That grocery store, that grocery store anchored retail. Fascinating. That’s right.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 8, 2024

And he had this game plan. How did that affect your plans going forward? Tell us a little bit about the plan for launching an independent economics research 00:09:15 [Speaker Changed] Shop. I’d been ranked i i back in the seventies, if you can do the math. Don’t write it down, but they surveyed retailers.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Howard Lindzon, Social Leverage , is below. So with no further ado, my discussion with Social Leverage’s Howard Lindzon. HOWARD LINDZON, MANAGING PARTNER, SOCIAL LEVERAGE: Hello, Barry. And I’m like, dad, I found I need 25 grand to get going and my dad said send me a business plan.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

We’re in the business of sitting in between asset owners, financial advisors, institutions, retail and asset managers, right, the BlackRock, State Street, PIMCO’s of the world, and helping them understand each other. There’s definitely demand from retail and there’s plenty of supply in the asset management business side.

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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. We started on that plan in December of 16. Yeah, exactly.

Marketing 107

Marketing Treasury Banking Profit and Loss 107

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

“ Elon Musk says he would reverse Twitter’s Trump ban “ Don’t buy a new gasoline car unless you’re planning to get rid of it in just a few years, which is kind of dumb, because then you’re eating the depreciation. Amazon in retail… Especially when it’s consumer facing and depends on traffic.

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