Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

And I remember my first job was a summer job and I took over for my older sister, who was 21 at the time, and I was, I don’t know, 15 or 16, and he was paying her $5 an hour, and he was paying me $2.50 And I said to him, “Look, I think I’m a harder worker “and I think I should get $5 an hour.”

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 85

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 10, 2023

From Alfred Sloan at General Motors to Jack Welch at General Electric to Steve Jobs at Apple, there is a history of CEOs being tagged as superstars (and indispensable to the organizations that they head), in successful companies.

Valuation 113

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

When I was 5-years-old, they fought, she moved. And how is it that you, what’s this car that’s in the parking lot, it’s got plates on it and a tag and it’s brand new. He was only 5’7”. trillion consumer spending force, Barry. Oh, you just do work with mathematics and intellectual activities.

Economics 56

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Can I just tag along? He acquired 22 and a $5 billion in a flash. What’s interesting and is a book by me are the social consequences of all of a sudden there being $3 trillion of new wealth. The marketplace end of 2021 is a couple of two or $3 trillion. What could go wrong? And he did the deal. That’s right.

Math 60

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 20, 2022

And they would call Chase, and they would call Lehman, and it was just this roundabout and the market would drop 5 points or what have you. Today, if you take emerging market corporates as an example, there’s — go back 5 years, 10 years, emerging market corporates are 5 times larger today than they were back then.

Restructuring 60

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

Really there are a few people in the industry with a better perch on what’s going on, a better position to see the industry, which, depending on which survey you read, is anywhere between $38 trillion and $97 trillion. But my deal is I use one of these services where anything I find interesting, I just tag it as a “to watch.”

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 60

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

And if you’re, if a stock’s building a big base and say the analysts are 90% sell ratings, and a lot of volume is surged down, you know, when the stock first declined to save $5 from 20, right. We’re actually getting a really normal type of correction rather than something that lasts only, you know, three to 5%.

Marketing 60

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

I can either just give it away for free, which, you know, I started the cash tag dollar sign… RITHOLTZ: Right. RITHOLTZ: What are they up to Eight trillion. So at worst it was $5, but at best it was still negative because that person told five other people. RITHOLTZ: Pull off 5% trade away. Some days I’m like, wow.

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