CFO News Room

JANUARY 24, 2023

* * * Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” Skepticism and human reason” [ Crooked Timber ]. “[W]e But where it gets interesting is when we start looking not just at how humans give reasons, but how they evaluate reasons that have been given by others.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

As the world's attention is focused on the war in the Ukraine, it is the human toll, in death and injury, that should get our immediate attention, and you may find a focus on economics and markets to be callous. The first is that you have to decide whether you can buy them in good conscience, and that is your judgment to make, not mine.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 25, 2018

Depending on what part of the story and which group of Burners one looks at, they might either see a post-capitalist organization of people that makes up a sharing economy in the most literal possible sense, or a celebration of capitalism at its most comical and excessive. A Gift Economy …. In An Extremely Expensive Environment. Who’s right?

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 9, 2022

“But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” So many of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in fact a rational management of symbolic capital.” It was one of the greatest achievements in human history. At least they’re sticking with humans. My recommendation?”

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

They are highly sophisticated, well-capitalized crime rings that are recruiting Ivy League talent to think of new approaches to get around the rules most systems are using to screen for fraud. AML is more complicated, he noted, but AI’s proven strength is in noticing and tagging abnormal behavior, and making it apparent in real time.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 10, 2023

While that effect tends to fade as businesses get larger, the tumult at Open AI, where the board dismissed Sam Altman as CEO, and then faced with an enterprise-wide meltdown, as capital providers and employees threatened to quit, illustrates that even at larger entities, a person or a few people can make a value difference.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

And he starts talking about money and free enterprise and capitalism and ownership and balance sheets and all this stuff and I’m sitting there mesmerized. 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. RITHOLTZ: Right. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2019

While activities like walking upstairs, reaching into a cabinet, choosing one item from a collection of things or folding clothing or a towel are all simple, if tedious, activities for a human being, for a robot any one of them is a complicated engineering and programming puzzle.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Michael: Bless human beings. Bless human beings. Michael: So just literally, client’s got an expenditure from such and such restaurant, you tag that as, that’s a restaurants thing. I was thinking The Plan, capital T, capital P. Mindy: Yeah. We were all kind of like, really? Mindy: I know.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Can I just tag along? Not because he wants to buy a yacht, but because he wants to save humanity from existential risk. And his idea of starting it is to start it with a bunch of effective al altruists in Berkeley where there’s money from effective altruist to supply the capital. What could go wrong? And he did the deal.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

ADVERTISEMENT) RITHOLTZ: Prior to 2022, when rates were cheap, when rates were zero, when capital was plentiful, it seemed like the entire industry went through this wild merger frenzy. What shocked me more than the slowdown was the intoxication of capital, right? We literally sold the house to finance the business. RITHOLTZ: Wow.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

And we literally talk about during the show, I got a tag to present to the SEC, about their new single stock product. But he also has an incredible depth of knowledge about market structures, about what people get wrong about thinking about systems, about what we get wrong about humans, and capitalism and finance.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 2, 2023

And then within LVMH, I moved to Tag Heuer, which is a pure watch business — RITHOLTZ: Right. It was really kind of in the Tag Heuer timeline for me, career-wise, that I became aware of Ben and of Hodinkee. Then we raised our first venture capital. And Louis Vuitton has a watch business and division. Hand wound moon watch.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

You work at Capital Growth Financial and in former global markets before you join investing Giant Merrill Lynch in 2007, what was that transition like from smaller shops to a really, really big one? 01:15:30 [Speaker Changed] It, it’s human beings who created it. So, I mean, there is a human element touching all of that.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

We had some very good markets going on in the commodity space, and we were able to capitalize on those things in the early two thousands after I would say the.com bubble had burst, you know, I was asked to go over and run the equities business. And realized that, look, we had one of the most unbelievable capital markets syndicate shops.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 2, 2024

Whereas, or someone who lives off capital. Tag on top of that for healthcare. It has a drug epidemic almost as bad as humans. 01:11:29 [Speaker Changed] Well, let, let me take back to one of the very first questions you asked me, which is, I think about human wellbeing. And of course you get that in Britain too.

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