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JANUARY 17, 2023

Finally, I looked at firms based upon price to book ratios as of January 1, 2022, as a rough proxy for growth/maturity, and at net debt to EBITDA multiples, as a measure of indebtedness: In this crisis, the conventional wisdom has held, at least so far, with mature companies holding their values better than growth companies. Source link.

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

She’s often in credit card debt. We should have access to the things that make us look and feel great without getting into debt,” DiNunzio noted in an interview. “I Social media, particularly Instagram, has emerged of late as a new rival alternative for the shopper looking to buy or sell secondhand couture. She’s got perfection issues.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The generation that entered adulthood attempting to simultaneously clear the dual hurdles of record levels of student loan debt and an entirely stalled economy, he said, is in some ways thinking very differently about commerce than even its older siblings in Generation X.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Because there is no reasonable way to build an extra quarter-day into the calendar, we instead built a slight time debt that every four years is neutralized with the addition of one extra day to the calendar to balance things out. It goes around the sun 365 and one-quarter times over the course of the year.

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JULY 25, 2017

At the upper edge of the spectrum, students can be looking at a ~$330,000 total price tag for an education at an elite private college. And with price tags that large, there is going to be a generation of students who are by necessity going to be seeking private student loans.

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DECEMBER 5, 2016

federal government is on track to provide $108 billion or more in debt forgiveness for student loans during the next few years. Those refunds come care of President Obama’s plan to help struggling student loan borrowers — and they have a price tag attached that is more expensive than previously thought.

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AUGUST 5, 2017

Plus, even if you don’t owe someone a formal debt, perhaps someone helped you move, or is having a bad day and could really use a pedicure — or an hour or two at the shooting range, depending on their interests. And we are not borrowing trivial sums of money from each other, either. million — enough to buy two Lamborghinis!

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

A less risky route would be to tag companies with significant exposure to Russia, such as Pepsi, McDonald's and Philip Morris, and evaluate whether the market is overreacting to that exposure. I have seen no evidence, so far, that this is the case, but that may change.

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MARCH 25, 2019

The deal values Worldpay at about $43 billion, including the assumption of Worldpay, debt that FIS said it plans to refinance. Checkout on Instagram, which will be available within posts and stories with shopping stickers and tags, enables Instagram users in the U.S.

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MARCH 13, 2019

Those fights were over retirement savings 18 percent of the time, having enough money to pay bills 14 percent of the time and how to pay off debt about 12 percent of the time. More than a third said they were mostly unaware of their partner’s debts. ” If you are concealing debt, it’s wise to come clean immediately. .”

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And Joshua added tags to that, and so you could browse things by tags. And it was kind of this idea that you would share your bookmarks with others, because bookmarks were kind of an indication of something that was actually interesting on the Internet. I had just finished another project I was been working on. RITHOLTZ: So 3.0

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AUGUST 2, 2018

The On The Edge look, well, a bit less on the edge and a bit more like “solid financial citizens” with college degrees – low debt, only a minority (43 percent) living paycheck-to-paycheck and a majority saving money (57 percent). Making Better Use of a Second Chance. Better Financial Education.

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MAY 24, 2016

Opponents of the practice note that, in its most vicious form, payday lending is an expensive predatory scourge on the class of borrowers it attracts, drawing them into a confusing and protracted cycle of debt. Over the course of that experience, they paid $520 on average, which is much more than the $55 price tag that gets quoted.”.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2017

1), was provided by Bridge Bank’s Technology Finance Group in the form of venture debt. The firms kept the price tag of the funding private , but LendingFront said it will use the backing to strengthen its solution, which uses continuous integrated monitoring of business lifecycles to mitigate borrower risk. Software-as-a-Service.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

JOHNSON: Yeah, and then we took on some debt. You can put those tags in there but still take a professionally managed strategy… RITHOLTZ: Right. RITHOLTZ: So let’s talk about some of those more recent acquisitions. 2020, you buy Legg Mason. I think it was an all-cash deal, $4.5 billion, is that about right? RITHOLTZ: Yep.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

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. BRYANT: We’re reducing debt by 3,500 bucks in a year. And I paid all of my debts off, dollar for dollar, under agreement. You don’t do any dirty work. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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AUGUST 14, 2018

Amend that a bit to state that when it comes to corporate events, cash may be … well, kind of king, right along with debt. A spate of headlines across Wall Street and venture capital these past several days shows a broad range of corporate actions that take into consideration, in varying degrees, cash/debt and valuation.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 20, 2022

His name is Robert Koenigsberger, and he has a fascinating career in emerging market, opportunistic and distressed debt investing. If you’re interested in what it’s like investing in emerging market debt, how that part of the investment firm has changed over the decades as the world itself has changed. RITHOLTZ: Sure.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

And in the middle, we decided, which made sense to put the emerging market debt business, all, all 00:20:12 [Speaker Changed] Related currency. And the credit fund had bought a debt security from one of the, their private equity’s own deals. He was reneging on the, the debt deal. Oh, 50 50 and a hundred year debt.

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MAY 18, 2020

Americans have been expended the money on things like rent, groceries, bills and debt reduction; with a not inconsiderable amount rolling into savings accounts. They justify the massive price tag by citing the coronavirus pandemic’s unprecedented scope and economic effects, arguing that combating them requires “bold action.”.

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