Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

So I was a mile deep on a subject matter of bond indexing, but now I had the opportunity to lead an equity indexing group, the entire fixed income team, our investment strategy team that does research for our clients around portfolio construction, those types of things. So a variety of risk meetings, a variety of economic meetings.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 20, 2024

00:03:14 [Mike Greene] So that was actually an outgrowth from my experience coming out of Wharton and you mentioned the, the, you know, the transition of people who tended to be skilled at math or physics into finance. Things like leading economic indicators, et cetera, are all consistent with historical recessions.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

A degree in mathematics from Oxford, a doctorate in mathematical epidemiology and economics from Cambridge. So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. What is that? The second is excess returns.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 4, 2023

.” It’s really helpful to have had five other meetings with people who sit at analogous funds that had losses that were just as big, and in fact, they may have contributed to those losses more and be able to tell him, first off, your fund, just by my math, has a $250 million management fee. RITHOLTZ: Is it just inertia?

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

RIEDER: And all of a sudden, you change the economic paradigm so darn fast. You know, part of why I read inventory numbers at retailers, you know, you talked about semis earlier, I think you have to think about the whole construct of what’s driving topline revenue for companies. RIEDER: Yeah. RITHOLTZ: Right. Where are we?

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

It’s much more about security selection and a relatively static portfolio construction. SEIDES: Yeah, I wouldn’t measure it in terms of economic returns. RITHOLTZ: So hold the duration risk aside with those two, but just for an investor in treasuries, I know you’ve done the math before. How would you have done?

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 29, 2024

00:10:47 [Speaker Changed] So in the additive services that Orion offers now are financial planning, compliance, CRM services, risk and analysis portfolio construction and advisor portal and investor portal. Also the, the underlying philosophy of that just seems fundamentally wrong from an an economic standpoint.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 17, 2023

Can’t Build a High-Rise, but It Can Speed Up the Job : Developers are embracing artificial intelligence tools like drones, cameras, apps and robots, which can reduce the timelines and waste that have made construction increasingly costly. (

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

So we could construct trades that had very, very low premiums to sell this volatility to, to basically join the consumer on their side of the trade, which is in essence buying insurance on, on the bonds that were exposed to these great risk. Do you, do you still have any? Sean Dobson : I have one in my office now. That’s awesome.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

You need to be more constructive because Dow 57% is a fantastic reset.” So as much as I’m personally still a pretty strong skeptic of active management, I mean, I understand the math, and the odds are not in your favor. I read all those academic papers, I understand where the math comes from. It’s how math works.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 9, 2023

But with mutating RNA viruses, ‘herd immunity’ is an extinct construct. However, they also show performance of DIY units can vary considerably depending upon their design, construction, and positioning, and users should be mindful of these limitations.” • This is a NIOSH study, therefore not the CDC study above. (So

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 22, 2023

CASS SUNSTEIN, FOUNDER, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL’S PROGRAM ON BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS AND PUBLIC POLICY: Thank you, a great pleasure to be here. RITHOLTZ: There’s nobody in the world of economics or behavioral finance like Dick Thaler. I thought law and economics was extremely important and kind of on the right track.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

The United States may start losing talented H1-B visa holders to Canada Economic Times. Leaked documents: British spies constructing secret terror army in Ukraine Grayzone (Kevin W). Can Elon Musk Make the Math Work on Owning Twitter? A History of Economic Whac-A-Mole Brad DeLong Project Syndicate (David L). It’s Dicey.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Barry Ritholtz : This week on the podcast, another extra special guest, Peter Goodman, is the award-winning investigative reporter and economics correspondent for the New York Times, his latest book, how the World Ran Out Of Everything Inside The Global Supply Chain. And I was ostensibly the economic writer. I do the math.

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