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

Valuation Profit and Loss Entertainment Investments 113

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 20, 2022

RITHOLTZ: Like state versus national or something? Bank of America decided they wanted to sell their branch in Lima, Peru, and the price tag was a million dollars. We can actually buy insurance, right? Now, it’s sovereign, quasi-sovereign U.S. dollar, local corporates, high yield, et cetera. KOENIGSBERGER: Sorry.

Restructuring 60

Restructuring Investments Marketing Banking 60

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

My father was an investment advisor, and he made his way to be an investment advisor from being a manager with a textile factory to selling insurance to find his way out of that business, went from insurance to financial planning, financial planning to the independent broker-dealer world, independent broker-dealer to hybrid IBD slash RIA.

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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. Put it in a drawer, a safety deposit box, cars, insurance, maintenance, parking. But I hadn’t met Ben yet.

Retail 64

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 2, 2024

What really makes people happy and how significant having or not having a, a college degree, you know, the United States has very much become a bifurcated nation. Also remember, if you’re in the UK and the government pays for everything, there’s no insurance industry, right? Healthcare minimum wage. Absolutely.

Healthcare 56

Healthcare Economics Math Education 56

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. Let me preface this by saying I’m not a big fan of Ticketmaster and Live Nation, which is now a monopoly. So you could see how the futures were trading, and marry that with portfolio insurance.

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Finance Investments Math Marketing 107

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Has Sam Brinton’s story always been too good to be true?” [ LGBTQ Nation ]. Video surveillance captured Brinton removing the suitcase from the carousel and putting the bag’s tag in their handbag before leaving ‘at a quick pace,’ the police complaint read. Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles. One theory.

Healthcare 130

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