Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 21, 2024

I’m good at math and science and you know, I always had an idea what go into business, but I felt that electrical engineering would be a good foundation. You know, I, it always, I I see different numbers all the time, so it’s always kinda like, who’s math if you will? 00:02:16 [Speaker Changed] Me too.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

So I think that resiliency piece, never giving up, never giving in, redefining, Barry, success as going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm, I think that’s everything. And like every business, they want revenue and they’d like to have a surplus profit. BRYANT: So money, unlike math, money is highly emotional.

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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. So the actual source of profitability in that trade is not the level of the vix, but the shape of the vol surface.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

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. And they go on longer and longer and obviously more profitable for the states that run the lottery. And then I was looking for something more applied.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 18, 2024

But I was really buying, and what I wanted to do was the construction. And they had a belief at the time of driving growth profitably whereby you could organically acquire customers. 00:40:26 [Speaker Changed] They, they know, they know math, they know math. Was it a loss? That’s a great question.

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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. But 00:15:04 [Speaker Changed] It takes that long for the losses to get through to the securities.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 22, 2023

And it was a bonfire of thinking, in a constructive, bonfires destroy, Tribe didn’t destroy anything. It’s a power law, this is very slightly technical for yours truly, the English major, not technical for you, the math guy. Humans are rational profit-maximizers, we’re not. And I thought he was dazzling.

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