Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 16, 2024

I was always good at math, but I really, I just didn’t relate to things that were more esoteric bonds options. Because the idea of syndication is that you make a giant purchase and then you sell it off in smaller units to really more of a retail investor. Even retail assets are doing pretty well right now.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And so, with this gave me exposure to everything from investment banking to retail, looking at like checking account campaigns, like how do you get more assets in the door to credit risk. I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

They provide physical or virtual platforms (like a shopping mall) for multiple groups (like retailers and shoppers) to get together. Put yourselves in the shoes of the Revolution Money team back in 2007, pitching its platform to retailers and consumers. Platforms’ Critical Success Factor: Crossing the Critical Mass Frontier.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2016

Now if we only knew the denominator and could do the math to see what those numbers really look like. Knowing those two data points – retail price and what that consumer paid — is like a little reward to that consumer that they saved $25. When Walmart Pay released their numbers, they talked only of percentages. Next time, guys?

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

Because then I knew what the wholesale rate was and the retail rate. Import, export, finance, marketing, wholesale, retail, customer service, security, territory, logistics. BRYANT: So money, unlike math, money is highly emotional. Actually, as in the color of US currency, Barry, it’s always been green, is my point.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

The ability to use an anonymous single currency to power a decentralized, permissionless distributed ledger operating over the public internet where miners compete to solve the math problems that enable the processing of transactions is a remarkable innovation. The Crypto Has No Clothes. In concept. The Need for a Balanced View.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

and what cross currency basis, et cetera, takes a while to assimilate at all. 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. The dollar is the reserve currency in the world.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

They said at that moment they were selling crypto as it’s gonna replace fiat currency. And they put some Bitcoin on my phone and we walked into Palo Alto to the one coffee shop that accepted Bitcoin as currency. Because he was all sure he was a totally isolated math. So, so he’s brilliant at math. Oh, really?

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

And I, and I really like the application of math and statistics and computer science to markets. You learn the math that can help you with, with market making operations. It’s just not smart on a math basis to do that. 01:02:36 All the math tells us we should not buy high dividend yield stocks.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2017

The remittance business is massive and massively important to the individuals and the countries that receive them, but in the face of other retail payments innovation, they keep a relatively low profile. It’s a big deal, but it is mostly an area of financial services that goes wholly unnoticed except by the population that use and rely on it.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

You’re doing a lot of math in your head on the Fly. I’m doing, I’m doing an awful lot of math in my head on the fly. It had gone from a fairly, fairly heavy retail business to a very institutional business. So we, we became, we went from fixed income and j Aaron to thick fixed income currency and commodities.

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