Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 21, 2024

I’m good at math and science and you know, I always had an idea what go into business, but I felt that electrical engineering would be a good foundation. You know, I, it always, I I see different numbers all the time, so it’s always kinda like, who’s math if you will? 00:02:16 [Speaker Changed] Me too.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

You know, people are comfortable, leverage builds. But since you mentioned getting return on the risk you take, how do you think about duration when the three-month Treasury is more or less the same or better than the 10-year? You know, the leverage in the system builds. And I think people underestimate U.S. RIEDER: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

We participated in that with treasury and FHFA and the regulators, the White House. It’s that the, so that’s the core competency and it’s just leveraged into, if it’s a loan, if it’s a security backed by a loan, if it’s the actual estate itself. So from a data perspective, think about it this way.

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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? We’ve re levered the economy, if you will, where the leverage of the private sector, the household sector, the corporate sector that got us into the great financial crisis that’s been healed. In a very short period of time.

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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

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. This is implicitly leverage. Leverage is a tool that accentuates both the good and the bad.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 17, 2025

Wasn’t the Excel spreadsheet error, which changed their math. I’m buying mortgage backed securities and treasuries and I’m hoping it does something. But that generally involves leverage, right? I mean that was, that was the problem. The problem is Japan is running two 50%. That’s what he said.

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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

MAY 16, 2023

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Howard Lindzon, Social Leverage , is below. So with no further ado, my discussion with Social Leverage’s Howard Lindzon. HOWARD LINDZON, MANAGING PARTNER, SOCIAL LEVERAGE: Hello, Barry. The next step from there was that Social Leverage. This all is leverage from the network.

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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. 00:31:28 [Speaker Changed] But you had no idea they were running a hundred to one leverage? Tell us a little bit about the plan for launching an independent economics research 00:09:15 [Speaker Changed] Shop. So at that point, I had a pretty big career.

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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. Aren’t the big firms and the LBOs, the leveraged buyouts, very different than the middle market, smaller private equity firms that provide capital and equity to small companies.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It’s, it’s no different But, but inherently in futures, a whole lot more leverage, a whole lot more risk. 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. Hank Paulson had left to go become treasury secretary. I said, sure.

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