Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

KLINSKY: You know, and what we were doing was basically advising Goldman clients how to take their own family businesses back off the stock market. September 13, 1981, I think the 10-year Treasury was 15.84 percent 10-year Treasuries, it is nowhere near kind of the situation. There was no junk debt available in the market.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. And they go on longer and longer and obviously more profitable for the states that run the lottery. And then I was looking for something more applied.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 27, 2023

And then covering, not in the mayhem of that Monday, but pretty close to the bottom tick on Tuesday, really just a fascinating career, a unique perspective on markets. I found this to be a master class in a humble approach to markets and being aware of your own limitations in order to obtain the best possible results as a trader and investor.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

This is the back when mortgages were sort of a backwater of the fixed income market. It takes quite a lot of, of research, quite a lot of modeling, quite a lot of data to actually keep up with the mortgage market. By the time you get to the early 2000s, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and me were losing market share.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And I was a math nerd as a kid. So again, so it came back out to the market and it held on to all the pieces except Danaher. He developed the Ginnie Mae contract, which at one time was a big thing in treasury bond contract. They announced a $640 million loss and ouch. They’d say it’s a crap market.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

And then, as it turns out, a switch flipped in the market in 2014 was a record, 2015 was a record. You know, that February, March market started to go, I mean, this started as a financial story, I guess, is how I got involved, which is that markets woke up to it very quickly, and things got hairy very fast.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

[ Gary Cohn ] 00:03:56 So two years earlier, and now we’re going back in time, the summer of 80, for those of you that remember the summer of 80, the Hunt brothers at that point were silver, were exactly, were trying to corner the gold and silver market. They were buying the, the Comex market. It was brand new.

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