Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And I was a math nerd as a kid. He developed the Ginnie Mae contract, which at one time was a big thing in treasury bond contract. What’s kept you entertained these days? It was the kind who thought it’s cool that 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 times eight is roughly 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 27, 2023

Not only did he serve on the Brady Commission looking at the ’87 crash, but his history of investing and trading and public service, both at the Fed and the Chicago Board of Trade and Treasury Department, really unparalleled, as well as just a pretty amazing track record as an investor and trader. What did you find? RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

And I literally just started putting adjectives and nouns on piece of paper, trying to figure out like how do I describe the work that I think I should be doing, and that hopefully, people find at least entertaining, if not valuable? NADIG: Well, I mean, there’s like TLT, with the big Treasury funds, LQD and HYG. NADIG: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 3, 2024

Jeffrey Sherman : Well, what it was was, so I, as I said, with applications, there’s many applications of math, and the usually obvious one is physics. Barry Ritholtz : It seems that some people are math people and some people are not. The, the math came easier. And I really hated physics, really. It’s so true.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 8, 2024

I’d been ranked i i back in the seventies, if you can do the math. When you look at the, well-known economists who came of age during the inflationary 1970s, I’m thinking of like Larry Summers former treasury secretary, they see inflation as structural. Starting with what’s keeping you entertained these days?

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

They don’t let the reporters into the fun stuff, but it’s a bunch of CEOs with Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury Secretary, and they’re all yakking about this, the big theme that year, as it often has been since then, was environment, ESG, and they’re all talking about the kind of corporate babble that you hear at these things.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

We participated in that with treasury and FHFA and the regulators, the White House. We ask all of our guests starting with what have you been entertained with these days? So I’ve seen all of the, the pre the, you know, the, the prequels and so forth under, on the entertainment side. 01:03:39 [Speaker Changed] Oh, wow.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 20, 2023

In fact, I think Secretary of the Treasury at the time said the market will work out these things and they will not become a problem. What’s keeping you entertained? And there really was a sense during the late ’80s, especially after the crash of 1987, that we really don’t want to meddle with this. RITHOLTZ: No.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 15, 2024

I started out math and, and physics, and in high school I was a rock star in math and physics. And it covers the spectrum of fixed income from treasuries here to high yield there, and everything in between. I’m like, ah, we get six and a half, seven on the treasury. But those guys are great, right?

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

So this is the math that I applied. So think about this, do the math. LINDZON: But that math, if you really put it in a calculator … RITHOLTZ: Becomes a problem. I never thought I’d be, I never had owned a bond or a treasury. What’s been keeping you entertained over the past couple of years?

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