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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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

You can put those tags in there but still take a professionally managed strategy… RITHOLTZ: Right. JOHNSON: It’s going to matter the demographics of a country, the growth, the policies, the regulation, all those that go into the factors. If they get their policies right, it’s going to be amazing growth.

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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. That self-esteem applied with a skill in the marketplace. Bush, to make financial literacy the policy of the US federal government. You don’t do any dirty work. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

They need to set up their policies and procedures. And so, my job is to redirect your skills to be able to do that. But my deal is I use one of these services where anything I find interesting, I just tag it as a “to watch.” RITHOLTZ: But I need better time management skills in order to finish it. HAMBURGER: Yes.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 2, 2024

Health, happiness, development, poverty, wellbeing, inequality, and the best ways to collect and interpret evidence for public policy that is quite an eclectic broad set of interests. 00:19:30 [Speaker Changed] You better have some skills. EPI is also the Economic Policy Institute. Tag on top of that for healthcare.

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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. FOWLER: Yes, I was at LVMH for a number of years, mostly with Louis Vuitton for the first few years. Hand wound moon watch.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

00:40:23 [Speaker Changed] So a lot of those skills are very transferable. And, and then we would go into our more, you know, day to day agenda depending on what we were working on from a policy standpoint. And the n e C job is really interesting because it touches the broadest spectrum of economic policy.

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