Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 21, 2025

He also worked as director of financial Education at, at Citigroup. And even before I went to Cambridge, I actually spent eight months working for a little suburban newspaper outside of Washington DC and in many ways it was the most fun and the most educational experience I had in journalism. He wrote over a thousand columns.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

There are an endless variety of business models and seeing how people operate that, it’s really an education, one that I think a lot of people coming out of school don’t think about, because you think about the sexy things. DAVIS: Where international equities, because of valuations, probably 7% to 7.5%. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 18, 2024

I got the sense that, so Churnin takes 51% for a fairly modest valuation, 10 or $15 million. That, that gives Barstool a half a billion dollar valuation. 00:40:26 [Speaker Changed] They, they know, they know math, they know math. It, it’s education that you get paid for, which is awesome, huh.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

CASE: Well, actually when we started in 1985, it was — the Internet was restricted to government agencies and educational institutions. But thankfully, the next decade, things really accelerated in terms of the growth of the company and growth in the valuation, things like that. The math never seems to work out.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Now, we’re shifting to more international places like China, Europe, et cetera, that are really growing, and that valuations are cheaper. Healthcare, education, not hugely cyclical, not interest rate sensitive. All of them, once you talk about health care, education, leisure, hospitality, hotel, et cetera.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

Barry Ritholtz : So, so let’s talk a little bit about your career in real estate, but before we get to that, I just gotta ask on your LinkedIn under education, it says, didn’t graduate, none working for a living. And I was always good at math and, and I had been writing code since I was in the sixth grade.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 21, 2024

I’m kind of in intrigued by the idea of philosophy and math. So I found myself getting kind of bored with my math problem sets, and then I could shift to philosophy and then go back and forth. And so I went to business school, I decided to go to business school, get that formal education. What was the career plan?

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 8, 2025

00:31:40 [Speaker Changed] So there’s the emotions and then there’s the math, right? I, you know, I, I do do the math when I, when I do some of my, my chats with the younger folks on the, on the team and I say, okay, real growth inflation term premium, you see this thing, it’s been zero or negative for the last 15 years.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 7, 2025

Barry Ritholtz : We always pay attention to regions where there is a pool of capital, a world class educational institution and a, a private sector that can combine all three. The interlinkages between women, our education policy, labor force, productivity, and again, ultimately the growth of the economy. Fascinating.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 1, 2024

My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • There’s a real math problem with MicroStrategy’s obscene valuation premium : MicroStrategy is worth around 3x as much as its bitcoin holdings. Avert your eyes! Let’s talk about the implications of that. Let’s talk about the implications of that.

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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. Let me see if I can go to grad school, continue this education. 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. And I just caught the bug.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 3, 2024

And so I, and I don’t mean attending class for your own education, but I meant if you want to teach, you have to go to the local schools, Jeffrey Sherman : Order a course, watch a teacher, do what you’re studying to do and say, Hey, is this for me? The, the math came easier. And I really hated physics, really.

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