Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

Even the ratings agencies, normally slow to act, have been moving promptly, with Moody's lowering Russia's rating from Ba2 to B3 on March 3, from B3 to Ca on March 6 and from Ca to C on March 8, and Ukraine's rating from B3 to Caa2 on March 4. Other ratings agencies have also taken similar actions.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

He has a fascinating background in technology and software, and is interested in all sorts of interesting things, ranging from climate change to humanism, to the huge transitions that humans have gone through as a species and what it means to society, investing, scarcity and just the quality of life that we will enjoy as a species.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

The interesting thing is, even with a so-called curse and a disappointing ending to every season since 1908, the Cubs’ loyal fan base has continued to make the team one of the most profitable in all of baseball. Users can then expect their championship gear to be delivered in minutes.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

There were advances, a few interesting upgrades, a plethora of inspirational videos about the historical implications of the forthcoming class of Apple products and a lot of enthusiasm on the part of the Apple team. It also comes in a wider array of colors and has a much lower starting price tag than the XS: $749. The New Watch .

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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.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

There is no crystal ball, of course, but a lot of interesting pokers in the fire. But for all we don’t know, there is plenty we do, mostly because we spent much of 2019 talking to some of the more interesting and forward-thinking retailers out there about how they go where they are today and where they hope to be going tomorrow.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

JOHNSON: Yes, except that we do have a fiduciary trust, which is a high net worth business. And it’s always nice to have a lending arm when you have a high net worth business. Not that Robinhood is how they should be necessarily investing, but hey, it gets them interested in finance, it gets them thinking about money.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

I was fascinated by your firm when I’d first come across it a little ways back, that you’ve got, to me, just a really interesting, wonderfully transparent fee structure in what you do. Michael: So, I’m trying to visualize overall, 400 engagements, planning fees down to $1,800, as high as $3,200.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As has been widely reported, Libra went into its Monday meeting in Geneva, some high profile backers, well, backed out. Sounds a bit to us like tag teams: One partner switches out but tags in another teammate who is game to go — and Libra tokens, of course, stay in the pot. But the uphill climb remains steep.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2018

Does a Nielsen rating actually matter if consumers DVR past commercials? Said simply, Reedeux is interested in taking on entertainment media en masse. “Hollywood is in trouble,” Federico Pacquing, Reedeux’s founder and CEO, noted. Over the last decade, the way consumers consume media has changed dramatically. How It Works: Part 1.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

But, as often happens in a week when a lot of high-profile new ideas take the stage, it becomes easy to miss the things that are taking their final bow and exiting, stage left. billion tagged for this year and significant focus on Chase mobile and digital efforts. SoFi wasn’t alone last week in high-profile departures.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

You tell a story in one of your books of a banker who shows up at your elementary school class and that kick-started your interest in finance? 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. You have a high school graduation rate of over 90%.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

And because we know you’re on the go, we have your quick rap on the most interesting adventures that happened last week in payments and commerce land. 1 spot – had a 61 percent use rate. Although Walmart accepts Chase Pay, it is understandably more interested in pursuing its own mobile wallet effort in Walmart Pay.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

So, Brian is not a stranger to me, and we have some shared financial interests, but the reason I wanted to bring him in here is there are few people in the industry who have a better perch by which to look at the world of registered investment advisors, broker-dealers, all of the changes that are taking place in the space. Has that closed?

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 20, 2022

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. And I got to get his feel for Wall Street politics, which I found out really weren’t for me and all the conflicts of interest that one finds in Wall Street.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

He has both A-A-C-M-T and a CFA looks at the world from a very interesting perspective. 00:02:21 [Speaker Changed] And, and, you know, quite frankly, it was a very interesting learning experience. It’s about a 50% fail rate, something like that. I rely on our analysts ratings at the firm. Maybe even more.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 2, 2024

He is just so fascinating, such an interesting person born in the uk, grows up in Scotland, is becomes a professor in the uk and then says, let’s go check out that place America and starts teaching at, at Princeton 40 years ago. So interesting, so fascinating. I’m interested in their wellbeing in a fairly broad sense.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

And so if it sounds like just two idiots talking about really interesting stuff in great detail, and me probably speaking more than I usually do during the podcast, well, that’s probably because it is. And we literally talk about during the show, I got a tag to present to the SEC, about their new single stock product.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Really a fascinating career, a really, really interesting person. If you’re at all interested in that, you’ll find this to be an absolutely masterclass in how legislation is assembled, how it’s shepherded through the house, through the senate, through all the competing interest groups.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

RITHOLTZ: If it’s interesting and cool and cutting edge, these guys are right on it. How did those two interests combine? RITHOLTZ: So that raises an interesting question. How does a kid from Arizona, from Phoenix, get interested in venture investing, not exactly known as a hotbed of early-stage tech companies.

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