Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

But as a private equity owner, again, first of all, you do invest heavily of your own money in the transactions, plus you have additional ownership through, you know, the carried interest, the profits interests. September 13, 1981, I think the 10-year Treasury was 15.84 You got 60 percent of losses ahead of you. RITHOLTZ: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

RITHOLTZ: And those were Treasuries. 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. RITHOLTZ: Like, very different universe, right? TROPIN: Right. TROPIN: Yeah. No, no, no.

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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?

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

We participated in that with treasury and FHFA and the regulators, the White House. 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. The homes are here.

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

So, for example, the treasury was thinking about moving to direct deposit, but they wanted to know how much it was gonna cost them because direct deposit, they, they, they, they, the money clears, you know, sorry, almost instantly, right? So they wanna know how many days does it take a, a treasury check to get back to us.

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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. Well, if you only care about yield, just go buy treasuries. And even treasuries.

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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. That’s right.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Profiteering fraud. It just, the, the, the profiteering really was utterly insane. That the focus on profits, on pleasing shareholders and on profits that can be sustainable means that, that, that the response in a pandemic isn’t going to be what you think. Absolute disaster. And that was it.

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