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The news follows big next-day delivery announcements from both Walmart and Amazon — in a week where both retailers had a lot of news about repositioning themselves in the market and reporting some pretty major changes. retail sales. It is a complicated question — and one greatly dependent on how exactly one lays out the math.
million securities on the fixed income opaque side of the market, using a lot of great systems, a lot of great mathematical mouth, and also couple hundred humans. MARTIN: I mean, it was incredibly interesting to watch the new retail interest in certain stocks and why they had picked certain stocks. RITHOLTZ: That’s interesting.
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And definitely, their retail market participation is significantly lower than you can see in the U.S. And I did the math, and I think at that point in time, roughly speaking, assets in ETS were roughly just 10 percent, 12 percent of assets in mutual funds and I was pretty convinced that that number was to increase significantly.
He didn’t think much of math and science — rather unusual given his choice of a profession that uses complicated math formulas to communicate. Amazon not only coined the term one-click checkout , but filed a patent for it in 1997 and secured it in 1999. His economic principles were what inspired President Lyndon B.
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Few people are in a position to see what’s going on in the world of investing, whether it’s institutional or retail, better than Vanguard CIO. I did an internship in the summer at Citibank Securities in fixed income sales and trading. And Greg Davis just does an amazing job. I think you will also. And you’re right.
We have institutional clients, we have retail clients, we have, you know, pension funds, we have endowments. Or we do, we, we do these regular touch points and that regular communication, whether it’s to the institutional community, to the retail community, to our endowment community, whatever that might be.
Because then I knew what the wholesale rate was and the retail rate. Import, export, finance, marketing, wholesale, retail, customer service, security, territory, logistics. BRYANT: So money, unlike math, money is highly emotional. BRYANT: Social Security is 65. “Yes, I want to do the stocking.” RITHOLTZ: Right.
Kount’s latest report “Calculating The 9 Deadly Costs Of Fraud,” does the math – and emphasizes how not managing fraud digs heavily into profits. Although adopted by relatively few retailers, the “buy online, pickup in-store” process already accounts for 25 percent of lost and stolen merchandise for brick-and-mortar shops.
And I was a math nerd as a kid. If you’ve got a undifferentiated, crappy retailer and you’re saying it’s going to have $5 of free cash flow in five years, and you’ve got Visa, MasterCard, most of the magnificent seven, and you say that’s $5, they’re not the same. You have so much more certainty.
But unfortunately, just as the product came to market, the whole Atari game market blew up, and retailers didn’t want any new products. The math never seems to work out. And it was basically updating the rules of securities laws that are in place since 1933. So that — but that’s why I moved to the area.
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.
So the idea being, you know, that we could analyze, dissect companies anywhere from, you know, senior securities, secured down to distressed. So I think there are 4,800 equities, different securities globally. And so whenever we build a portfolio, we think about every security has a tail to it. Was that the basis?
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?
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I don’t, I don’t know what else to say other than there are a few people in the world that understand running a fixed income portfolio on behalf of institutional or retail clients, a as well as Matt Egan does. I started out math and, and physics, and in high school I was a rock star in math and physics. Matt Eagan.
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I was hired to cover, I think, securities litigation or insurance regulation, something like truly technical and awful. RITHOLTZ: Retail just is nothing at all. hey, there’s no retail, order online. Wait, you’re selling video games in retail shops in malls? ” And trying to see retail reassert themselves.
Amazon in retail… Especially when it’s consumer facing and depends on traffic. He has now pledged an additional 40 percent to secure the new loans to buy Twitter. We’ve learned that online one company dominates in every sphere. So, do people on the left need to be on Twitter? Not everything is equal folks.
The remittance business is massive and massively important to the individuals and the countries that receive them, but in the face of other retail payments innovation, they keep a relatively low profile. There is a lot going on right now with President Trump, and he’s in his own way to secure the border. to Mexico each year.
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