Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Wall Street Journal ) • Comeback in Factory Jobs Appears to Be for Real : After decades of employment declines, manufacturing is looking like a growth sector — if it can find enough young people willing to work in it. Businessweek ) • The Super Bowl’s Most Reliable Stock Market Indicator? technology into its search engine. (

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The Finance Weekly

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Breaking down the Math. Other examples are Lego using real time data to drive , revenue over the past few years, and the FP&A team at manufacturing company Chemours improving margins for industrial plants. Based on the findings, FP&A teams spend at least 2 hours each week on manual processes. How the Study was Conducted.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2017

The first sets were originally patented by Alfred Carlton Gilbert and first sold by his company, the Mysto Manufacturing Company of New Haven, Connecticut in 1913. And counting: The math is actually still out on that one, according to a documentary on the subject.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

And, he noted, moving to a mix of part-time and full-time drivers doesn’t meaningfully change the math - they would still be cutting over 900,000 drivers and would only end up with about 280,000 jobs total. was largely an economy driven by manufacturing; nowadays, it's primarily a service economy.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

The construction and manufacturing sectors were the most bullish, as consumers bought new houses and invested in improving the ones in which they were living. Doing The Math. For most SMBs , 2019 was a banner year, and 2020 was expected to be nothing less than spectacular. In just 21 days. . It may not be so clear-cut.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2016

The New York Times published another story in a string of ones focused on breaking apart the nebulous concept of the manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP) or list price that online retailers like Amazon prominently display with strikethroughs to highlight just what a great deal the price they sell at really is.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2017

the financing arm of the vehicle manufacturer, announced Friday (Aug. Applying better math and more data to traditional underwriting illuminates the true credit risk and helps forward-looking companies like Ford Credit continue to grow their businesses while predictably managing their risk.”. ƒFord Motor Credit Co.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2020

But to understand how that thinking and those behaviors will influence the direction of the connected economy over the next decade, we need to start with a little math. Something very different can happen, though — something that math geeks (and I am not one of them) call a jump discontinuity. The line is chugging along.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 21, 2020

You can do the math and see that dozens and dozens of smaller firms could have benefitted from the help. Assuming they’d be able to get federal aid, these same firms — spanning retail, tech, manufacturing and, yes, restaurants — would be able to stay open 97 days. The burger and shake giant later returned the funds.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2020

He believes KiwiCo’s products are effective at developing science, engineering, art and math skills while also maintaining an element of fun. KiwiCo’s products are designed in California, but manufacturing takes place in Asia, mostly China.

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Michigan CFO

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Manufacturing. Or maybe you just rely on your bank account balance to do the math for you. Learn how our CFOs can help businesses in your industry: Engineering. SaaS Businesses. Your Money Management System is Convoluted. Maybe you’re using a spreadsheet to keep a running tally of your income and expenses.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

And, he noted, moving to a mix of part-time and full-time drivers doesn’t meaningfully change the math - they would still be cutting over 900,000 drivers and would only end up with about 280,000 jobs total. was largely an economy driven by manufacturing; nowadays, it's primarily a service economy.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2017

Vikram Singh , who heads the alliances/partnership team for smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi’s business in India , recently gave PYMNTS an inside look into how he sees the market unfolding. Capitalizing on those opportunities means understanding the complexities that await businesses who want to get in on the ground floor.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

That thru-line concerns this external body – the central banks – which can effectively manufacture money, and how this money, just by sheer mass momentum and the players involved, goes disproportionately to financial markets relative to the real economy. That’s just the math. Or the electrification of manufacturing plants?

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 24, 2022

This is a vital function all manufacturers and merchants need to perform. If you have expertise in any common subjects, such as math and science, and you have some extra time, you may have all you need to become a tutor. Skills Needed: General knowledge of products and services. Difficulty Level: Low. At its core, it’s test marketing.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2018

The engineering background, he said, enables him to speak the math- and jargon-heavy language employed by many of the company’s clients, and to make sure his own employees don’t try to pull one over on him. “It Such data can also help device and equipment manufacturers improve their products and offerings.

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PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2018

The engineering background, he said, enables him to speak the math- and jargon-heavy language employed by many of the company’s clients, and to make sure his own employees don’t try to pull one over on him. “It Such data can also help device and equipment manufacturers improve their products and offerings.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 27, 2022

A friend of a friend asked me to go to this manufacturing plant in Orange County, California, and there must’ve been 400, 500 people in this manufacturing plant that were all getting laid off. Michael: Because his view was, “Manufacturing plant workers aren’t going to have enough money opportunity for you?”

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2016

Now if we only knew the denominator and could do the math to see what those numbers really look like. It’s true though, that device manufacturers of all stripes have their work cut out for them as consumers hang onto them longer – more than twice as long as they did just a few years back. Next time, guys? SMB Working Capital.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

But that means if you’re in a company that, at the end of the day, manufactures product, the people in those groups tend to be people that move a lot of the product because that’s the business of the company. And you start doing the math of the staff, and you’re like, “I can hire people for less than this.”

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

And I did a lot of options math, which I thought was interesting. Going to the malls, visiting real estate sites, going to the auto manufacturing plants, visiting battery plants really gives you a more concrete sense of what is occurring and to your point, what is beneath the headlines and what the market could be missing.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 16, 2024

I was always good at math, but I really, I just didn’t relate to things that were more esoteric bonds options. All kinds of residential, retail data centers, industrial manufactured housing, seniors, housing, you name it. And I, I think that I kind of triangulated on it. I have no family history. 00:17:46 [Speaker Changed] So.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Number one, manufacturing has been strong in the Southeast for a number of years. And so you see a lot of car manufacturers operating down there. And so when you think about, you know, the south and you think about industries that are moving, it continues to be manufacturing and logistics. SHAW: A lot of car companies.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And I did the math, and I think at that point in time, roughly speaking, assets in ETS were roughly just 10 percent, 12 percent of assets in mutual funds and I was pretty convinced that that number was to increase significantly. So I think many of these car manufacturers can see the writing on the wall.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Out the investor went, proudly showing the world the newest innovation in clothing design and manufacturing all his own. The investor’s team members ooh’ed and aah’ed about it before he stepped outside to show it off, remarking on the incredible innovation he was about to unveil. In concept.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Electricity would also give innovators their own superpower, an incentive to design and manufacture a whole range of electric-powered appliances – irons, refrigerators, dryers, ovens, stoves, vacuum cleaners, dishwashers – that would do more than save women time “doing chores.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2017

Lucy Crespo, CEO of the Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust, a public-private trust working to transform the island into a tech hub by 2020, noted that Puerto Rico graduates 22,000 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) students per year, of whom 60 to 70 percent leave the island.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2020

This mix of SMBs includes retailers, restaurants, professional and personal services firms, contractors, manufacturers, wholesalers and tech firms. With all of those considerations, here’s what the math looks like for Main Street USA. They range from operating in small towns to large cities.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

Yeah, it’s really, 00:49:06 [Speaker Changed] I think it’s something we’re spending time on because we’re with our vertical integration of manufacturing homes, building homes, real estate development, the ability to monetize a home either as a sell to a consumer or a rent and have into an investor.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2017

It would, therefore, take the notion of fuzzy math to a whole new level to think that 93 percent of sales still happen in a physical store at the same time large swaths of retailers are simply disappearing — or will — because, those retailers say, consumers aren’t visiting their storefronts any longer. Meaning, even more stores will close.

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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. Whereas in 1980, 70% of it was manufacturing asset intensive, et cetera. What was the career plan? It’s a changing animal.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 2, 2024

So when I was at this very fancy private school that I was at as a kid, I did math because it gave me a huge amount of free time to do the things I really cared about. But when I got to Cambridge, you know, the math was sort of serious there. So, you know, I took my math into statistics and things. Am I getting right?

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

My dad was first generation college, became an entrepreneur, started an auto parts manufacturing business. So here’s the math, Barry. I’m a big fan of the show, and you know, I grew up in rural Indiana. I’m 52 years old, so it was 19, you know, early eighties. He, he chose a, a challenging time. You all have phones.

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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

JULY 31, 2023

RITHOLTZ: Manufacturing, Ford as an example, sure. I mean, you’re talking about, I don’t, I could do the math, it’s like a 10,000% return in like three weeks. And that’s sort of the math. Travel, obviously important, finance important, it was a little unclear then how that would it all shake out.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 20, 2023

We looked at everything from retail to nursing homes to hospitals to insurance companies to manufacturers. When you look at the history of the ’80s and even ’90s era LBOs, they seem to be a lot of lesser-known, not necessarily consumer-facing companies, transport and logistics and manufacturing.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The math never seems to work out. CASE: The crowdfunding really started with some platforms like Kickstarter, exactly what you’re saying that if you — if people to offer a particular product, usually before it’d even be manufactured and get some preorders that will allow them to have the capital to then go build out the product.

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