The Finance Weekly

OCTOBER 29, 2024

If the income statement shows a profit, it boosts the equity on the balance sheet. A loss decreases equity. Example Imagine you manage a conglomerate called TPD Corporation, which has three main divisions: healthcare, entertainment, and logistics. Now, consider any debts or liabilities.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The company isn’t profitable yet, and probably won’t be for a while. Since PDD went public, it has been hit with net losses of $981.4 Q4 revenue jumped 697 percent year-on-year to $491 million, although the operating losses increased as well. The social component is especially popular with women. million in Q2 and $159.9

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

Uber Eats, facing losses and stiffening competition from both Grubhub and DoorDash, is changing its leadership and reorienting its efforts around profitability. That will now be replaced by category-focused product teams — focusing on areas like apparel, entertainment, food and consumables. trillion (with a “T”) last Tuesday. “We

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The Finance Weekly

MARCH 25, 2024

She led Oracle's transition to cloud computing which skyrocketed the company's industry status and has successfully guided Oracle through challenging economic periods. With over two decades of experience in media and entertainment, Ianniello was among the key persons behind one of the world's largest media companies.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2020

Disney also suspended its quarterly dividend and slashed $700 million in expansion spending at domestic theme parks as it sought to offset some of the massive net quarterly loss, which came in $4.72 Disney announced that its streaming empire – Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ — has grown to about 100 million subscribers worldwide.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The motivations for the practice vary, and the payoff from CVC is debatable, but it is undeniable that CVC is growing as a segment of venture capital, and that it is not only affecting the pricing of the young companies that are targeted, but also altering the economics of venture capital, in the aggregate.

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Finvisage

JANUARY 2, 2020

The report further proceeds with Results and Findings column, confronting data on several key economic factors affecting TCI on a macro scale. Subsequently, the report touches upon the UK’s current economic environment and TCI’s recent market status. It does not aim to replace profits lost on the transaction. in 2016 to 1.8%

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The Law in Spirit and Letter In the latter part of the nineteenth century, as the United States was transitioning from an emerging market to a global economic power, its growth was powered by three industries - steel, railroads and oil - all requiring large investments in infrastructure. In short, while Ms.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

I had an economics lesson, I had a life lesson, I had an epiphany, I had a race relations lesson, I had a self-esteem and confidence lesson. Being broke is economic, but being poor is a disabling frame of mind, a depressed condition of your spirit. It’s home economics class, doesn’t exist anymore. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Michael: So, it sounds like part of the challenge was, you live in a large company environment where, as is common for a lot of them, they organized study groups of top advisors, of top producers, of those that are doing well and growing well, and driving the business profitably. In fact, we probably would have been much more profitable.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 2, 2024

That wasnt especially profitable. You guys are in business looking for an economic outcome. Eva Shang : So Christian was studying economics and computer science. But it was our very first loss and it meant a lot to us because it threw into question our entire business model. What’s the win-loss rate?

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Let’s just jump right into this undergraduate Vienna University of Economics and Business. 00:01:40 [Speaker Changed] So yeah, I was born and raised in Vienna and went to the Vienna University of Economics, but actually raced in junior formulas at the time and wanted to be a race driver. How do you cope with that loss of talent?

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Colin Camerer : And then economics, which I really only took a little bit of, a lot fewer than my peers I later competed with in grad school, was kind of in between like the three little bears, you know, it was, there was, I love that. How does that relate to economics and decision making and investing?

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And so, coming out of school, I studied Economics and Spanish Literature, and I applied to a — a program that actually targeted Liberal Arts majors. You have a background, undergraduate, your economics degree from Notre Dame, but you were dual-major Spanish language and Literature degree, how useful was that in Latin America?

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 24, 2023

10 years ago you had the top economics, economists, investors in America writing a letter to the Fed in 2010 saying, “Hey, stop QE. And again, now that it’s become a global economic and political priority, it’s become a solution for spending as opposed to a risk. What’s entertaining the family?

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 20, 2024

And so it is important that at least you’re able to entertain that. So the actual source of profitability in that trade is not the level of the vix, but the shape of the vol surface. I don’t know what you’re allowed to talk about, but it’s safe to say this was a big eight or nine figure profit, right?

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2022

And in order to graduate from Cook you had to have at least a minor that was related, and I thought — I took an econ class and I kind of liked it, so I minored in environmental economics. I — because obviously, I’m like journalism, economics, I’m in Rutgers. I run it at a loss. RITHOLTZ: Interesting. BALCHUNAS: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 28, 2022

ELLIS: Well, it starts with one very simple proposition, nobody is making a profit. Every other investment organization got a problem that somebody is taking money out of the pot every day, every month, every year as a profit. I start a business to make a profit. I’ll get bigger, I’ll make more profits.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 5, 2023

So, so let’s talk a little bit about your, your background ba in economics from Dartmouth. We hope that we can invest behind and see stability so that there won’t be a loss of capital 00:28:00 [Speaker Changed] And, and above average GDP 00:28:02 [Speaker Changed] Growth. For diversity is profitable for investors.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

A degree in mathematics from Oxford, a doctorate in mathematical epidemiology and economics from Cambridge. And you do a lot of work with infinity [Barry Ritholtz] : 00:03:29 [Speaker Changed] And then economics, which is a little bit squishier. What made you add economics to your, to your graduate degree? What is that?

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 13, 2023

During COVID, rather than just a monetary response, we saw a massive fiscal response, which seemed to have really helped across the entire economic strata, especially the middle class. We’re investing in profitable mid-market companies making 20 million, 25 million, 50 million EBITDA and needed capital in. A real company.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 27, 2023

It’s a matter of making better decisions and being more profitable. since the ‘80s regarding economic mobility, that there used to be a huge ability to move up, or at least be in a better situation than your parents were. Tell us about how you saw this lack of diversity and the lack of economic mobility. RITHOLTZ: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

They announced a $640 million loss and ouch. But if, if it has a history of not being profitable, you you really want to exclude that. The visibility on earnings they grew but they stayed profitable as, as they grew. So big loss. A 99% loss on 1.1% So I took that. That was real money. Real money.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 18, 2023

And four nights a week, we were out to dinner, entertaining customers, getting to know them, talking about the markets, and that was an incredible education for me. And it was the most profitable day of trading I’d ever had. I was like talking through with him how the fund economics worked and what the upside was.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

STEVEN KLINSKY, FOUNDER, CEO AND MANAGING DIRECTOR, NEW MOUNTAIN CAPITAL: I come from the Detroit area of Michigan as a public school kid, went to University of Michigan and studied both economics and philosophy. You got 60 percent of losses ahead of you. Tell us what you were watching during the lockdown, what kept you entertained?

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

And so, you know, it was relatively, I wouldn’t say straightforward because I don’t think generating consistent profits has ever been something that’s so straightforward or so easy. And it’s always going to expect to lose some of those profits when the trend reverses, but still end up capturing the meat of the trend.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 27, 2023

.” RITHOLTZ: So people also should realize, for those of you who’ve never traded futures, it’s not like options where essentially you could put up your losses in advance and all they could do is go to zero. RITHOLTZ: Put up your losses in advance. Options, you’re on the hook no matter where it goes.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 8, 2024

You don’t go for a doctorate in economics. I mean, you know, realistically those contracts were really only worth the profit they generate in near term and putting a multiple on them didn’t make sense because there’s no annuity value, it’s not 00:30:24 [Speaker Changed] The pandemic.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

And so, so we sort of felt pretty stupid for a while because we did a lot of losing trades in 2006 that were the, you know, that obviously didn’t come to fruition until the actual people could see the losses. So in mortgages, the borrower can stop paying maybe a year to two years before the lenders actually book a loss.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

MCCARTHY: I’d back up actually a little bit further in thinking about how did I get there, because I don’t think it was very obvious actually that I would come out of Yale with an ethics, politics and economics degree — RITHOLTZ: Perfect really, right? MCCARTHY: — and end up in M&A on Wall Street. RITHOLTZ: Is that true?

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

The economic dislocation, the health risks, just the mayhem that took place, but from the perspective of a number of corporate CEOs, Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital, the hedge fund that had a couple of amazing trades based on this. HOFFMAN: So obviously, I’ve — you know, economically minded from the jump.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

You get an economics PhD from California, Berkeley in 82, and around the same time you become an economist at the Federal Reserve Board from 81 to 83. And so you had a situation where you could take big positions in the euro dollar market, affect the price and the cash market and actually make a profit. You have a big repo market.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 3, 2024

Now you have to assume some losses. Barry Ritholtz : And these bonds are still profitable Jeffrey Sherman : And they don’t break, like they, they don’t, they don’t, they don’t lose money, especially at 50 cents on dollar. He, he’s really telling you trickle down economics, right?

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 2, 2024

He is so knowledgeable about so many unusual areas in economics. You’re the author of 200 plus papers, six books, deaths of Despair, which you wrote with Anne Case who happens to be your wife, was a New York Times bestseller and your latest book, economics in America, an Immigrant Economist, explores the Land of inequality.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 11, 2023

They had the access to loss and excel really. And I think that’s a loss. And the second was, of course, the Warren Buffett story that came out the same week, where he essentially called people who post buybacks, you know, economically illiterate. It’s the entertainment value. That’s fascinating.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 13, 2024

You come to the US where you get your PhD in economics from Columbia University. So I’ll, I’ll, I’ll pick economics. So I studied economics and statistics and then finance for an MBA. So your academic background, you get a Bachelor of Arts and an MBA from Hebrew University of Jerusalem. And, and I did.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

I found the book to be really entertaining and, and amusing and a little bit horrifying. It really is just a, a, a very entertaining book and I thought this conversation was, was absolutely fascinating. He sunk all the profits into Bitcoin, he’s levered up and borrowed money and bought Bitcoin. Tell us what is Ponzi nos?

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