PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2016

Kount’s latest report “Calculating The 9 Deadly Costs Of Fraud,” does the math – and emphasizes how not managing fraud digs heavily into profits. In fact, fraud losses as an overall percentage of revenue nearly doubled in 2015 as a result of lost or stolen products, according to Kount.

Profit and Loss 52

Profit and Loss Math Auditing Sales 52

PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

Now why, you might ask, would the biggest retailer in the world buy an eCommerce site that was facing a mega cash crunch in December and had to raise a whopping $550M just to keep the lights on? It wasn’t because it has the secret to running a profitable eCommerce site or success in monetizing memberships a la its CEO’s alma mater, Amazon.

Profit and Loss 43

Profit and Loss Currencies Accounting Securities 43

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

Because then I knew what the wholesale rate was and the retail rate. 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. BRYANT: So money, unlike math, money is highly emotional. RITHOLTZ: Yes.

Economics 57

Economics Education Profit and Loss Banking 57

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 27, 2023

I invest less because I’m interested in what widgets a company does, and more in the capital structure and how to position yourself, what the other guy is going to do at the bond level or senior secured level, and how to position yourself to make money. It’s a matter of making better decisions and being more profitable.

Investments 110

Investments Restructuring Profit and Loss Finance 110

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

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. Bitcoin’s infrastructure is highly concentrated and not all that secure.

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. Anything else?

Profit and Loss 57

Profit and Loss Investments Marketing Securities 57

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And I was a math nerd as a kid. They announced a $640 million loss and ouch. ’cause bad things can happen to undifferentiated retailers. It’s what the much maligned retail investor was doing. But if, if it has a history of not being profitable, you you really want to exclude that. So I took that.

Benchmarking 103

Benchmarking Concentration Investments Profit and Loss 103