Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 24, 2025

The more appropriate number — Gov’t Consumption Expenditures and Gross Investment — is $4.9893T ($4.9893/$29.1838 = 17.1%). ” “ Transfer Payments ,” for the uninitiated, include such things as Social Security benefits. Both the Wall St.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 1, 2025

The ultrarich are growing in numbers, and changing wealth as we know it. ( Imagine if every sentence in a story were expected to contain the same number of alphanumeric characters. Or why we need less math in music theory. ( Everyone else hasnt. WSJ ) In an Age of Right-Wing Populism, Why Are Denmarks Liberals Winning?

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Generation CFO

JANUARY 28, 2022

He suggests organisations need a safe space where the numbers will not be used as a stick to beat you with. “It However, when he didn’t secure a senior contract at Bradford City, he left that path behind and went on to study maths at University. Consequently, his original career ambition was in professional football.

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2020

The total number of layoffs hasn’t been finalized yet, according to WSJ, but they are expected to be in the tens of millions, although they won’t all happen at the same time. For us to bring our level of efficiency close to our peers, the math would tell you, we need to eliminate over $10 billion of expenses.”

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2016

PYMNTS sat down with Revel’s CTO Chris Ciabarra to get the inside skinny about the Pokémon Go retail’s effect -which has been undeniably profound by the numbers. If you want to put a number on that, it averages out to about $2,000 to weekly gross sales.”. By The Numbers.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

On average, our customers will see a 20 percent lift in approvals and a 30 percent reduction in charge-offs just by deploying better math,” de Vere said. Those are the kind of numbers that explain why Zest received a $15 million investment last week from software developer Insight Partners. 15M In New Funding .

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CFO Talks

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

However, my commerce teacher noticed my aptitude for math and saw potential in me for a different path. This early encouragement played a key role in shaping my future, as it introduced me to the world of business and numbers. My interest in finance began unexpectedly in high school.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2024

I doubt he’s run the real numbers of being invested in the stock market tax deferred with an additional company match. The Math Doesn’t Add Up ( Rolling Stone , January 24, 2024) How TikTok Is Wiring Gen Z’s Money Brain ( WSJ , May 4, 2024) _ 1.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Wall Street Journal ) • From Math Camp to Handcuffs: FTX’s Downfall Was an Arc of Brotherhood and Betrayal : Gary Wang and Sam Bankman-Fried are offering dueling accounts of the FTX fiasco and of who’s ultimately to blame. They have each other’s phone numbers. The stock market’s winners and losers will be different too.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 1, 2023

But most of all, it was just simple maths according to Druck. The easy part is over. Barron’s ) • The Bear Market’s Survivors Share Their Biggest Lessons : With the S&P 500 in the longest bear market since 1973, individual investors maneuver differently from just months ago. The first was don’t lose money. I don’t like to lose.”

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Nerd's Eye View

JUNE 21, 2024

Also in industry news this week: A recent survey indicates that financial advisors continue to move towards ETFs and away from mutual funds when it comes to client portfolio recommendations, though a majority of advisors continue to see a role for active management in the investment management process A former employee has filed a lawsuit alleging (..)

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The CFO Centre

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Numbers matter. Our mathematical universe is constructed of numbers. From the speed of light to the parabolic curve of a free-kick in soccer, maths underpins the laws of the universe. We can also deconstruct our entire lives in numbers. Some we can see. Most we can’t.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

It’s All Math, All The Way Down. Numbered patterns in the pixels are what the computer is programmed to spot, and it makes “decisions” about what those patterns represent, based on complex statistical analysis using every other data set it’s ever encountered as its comparison points.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 11, 2023

Bloomberg ) • From Pepperoni Math to Nepo Babies, Summer Is for Interns : Your first experience at work is not often forgotten. The rental market slowdown in finally reflected in inflation numbers Source: Apartment List Sign up for our reads-only mailing list here. Buffett won).

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 31, 2024

We discuss how he began as a math major but didn’t want to go into physics, engineering or academia, so finance was the next logical career option. Prior to joining DoubleLine in 2009, Sherman was a senior vice president at TCW Group Inc. He is host of the podcast The Sherman Show and a CFA charter holder.

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CFO Simplified

JUNE 19, 2022

Now, you can do the math when you add all of this together, sit down and ask, “How many customers did we get this year?”. Divide the total amount of marketing and sales support dollars by the number of customers that you’ve received—this will tell you what your customer acquisition cost is.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Math, as it turns out, is doing more than making millions of teenagers unhappy over hard homework right now — it’s also making the world less democratic and egalitarian. In the wrong hands, mathematics can become a “WMD” — a weapon of math destruction. Cathy O’Neil does not hate math. I think that’s total bull—-.”.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 24, 2023

To be a successful investor you need to possess a number of different traits. You need to understand how math, statistics and probabilities work. Pour yourself a mug of coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • The Evolution of Financial Advice.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The math implies that 87 million users were inactive. BGR India reported that the app was in the testing phase and had onboarded a number of banks – Axis, ICICI, HDFC, Standard Chartered and others among them.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2017

From some guy’s garage in San Francisco, a group of math nerds has grown into one of the world’s finest-tuned machine learning operations. PYMNTS: Can you give me some personnel growth numbers? SigOpt now helps optimize fraud detection and investments like beer brewing and even the manufacturing of synthetic rhino horns.

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The Finance Weekly

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Breaking down the Math. billion is the first number that came out of the research and this represents the total amount of money lost by manual financial work. This number represents how much of an economic uplift could occur “if FP&A departments hit a conservative 0.1% billion is the 2nd half of the study.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The digital numbers for Lego.com doubled to more than 100 million in the first half of 2020. It launched a brand new unit, called Training Trackers, to teach core science and math concepts with its middle school solution, LEGO® Education SPIKE ?Prime. Christiansen. “We

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Jedox Finance

JULY 6, 2021

A friendly warning: This involves some math, which is necessary to explain how these metrics work. n is total number of values in the test set. n is total number of values in the test set. n is total number of values in the test set. n is total number of values in the test set. intermittent demand/sales data).

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

There's a number of different models … We're not in the business of picking winners and losers. Visa noted, too, that debit spending has been high in the wake of repeated waves of stimulus payments deposited directly onto debit cards or in bank accounts. We see our job as enablement no matter what the model is.”

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 20, 2023

But just do the math: Would you prefer to give up 67 basis points (RWM’s dollar-weighted average fee is ~0.67%) or would you prefer to give up 30% of your gains PLUS pay an annual 0.79% fee for the TJUL ETF? The performance numbers reveal this is a terrible trade-off for the average retail investor. Chart after the jump ).

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Then, Krakaris does some math on the backend to find out where merchants should send their products. Krakaris saw a particular opportunity in serving marketplaces beyond Amazon through retailers like Walmart, eBay and Jet. To use the platform, merchants connect their different sales channels and import their products.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

According to CNBC-TV18 , the new stores would take the total number of Walmart locations in India to 70. We are planning to take the total number of stores to 70 by 2022. So you can do the math. Walmart India revealed that it is investing about $500 million to open 47 new stores by 2022.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

And machines learning from one another is an evolving frontier in which projects and tasks and any number of activities are made more efficient and evolve continuously. They wouldn’t call it Big Data if it weren’t … huge. But at the root of all this is human endeavor. With human endeavor comes fallibility.

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2020

But to steal a line from Shakespeare, “the readiness is all” – and a significant number of merchants have yet to meet the challenges of commerce done mostly online. Data can help merchants adjust their payment flows to optimize the customer experience and, in the process, grow revenues. Getting Ready – And Getting Onto Platforms.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

But as markets saw their prices fall, bitcoin’s numbers went up. Not because we don’t understand it or we can’t understand the math [but] because there is no security whatsoever…” “Some people have hundreds of thousands of dollars on their smartphone wallet. International markets opened Wednesday (Nov.

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The Charity CFO

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Hopefully, we’ll fall far short of that number. . Doing some simple math (25% x 12 months = 3 months), we can safely say that you should start with a goal of at least 3 months of expenses as your operating reserve. Once you reach that goal, keep saving and increase that reserve to 6 months of operating expenses.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Every year, Bhalla said, the credit card industry pushes about 6 billion plastic cards into the environment — a big-sounding number, though only about.015 Working with the three-largest card manufacturers in the world, we hope to be able to change that math,” he explained. 015 percent of the world’s total plastic use.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

As a starting point, it’s important to understand that as the financial services industry has evolved into the digital age, it has become increasingly common for financial advisors to rely on web-based business development strategies where the typical number of ‘prospects’ who visit the advisor’s website are often astronomically large.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Now, they are investing in algorithm companies, math scientists, analytics and things that we would typically only have associated with leading tech companies,” McCammon pointed out. A growing number of customers have more digitally focused expectations when it comes to vehicles.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 4, 2019

The math shakes out thus: Each token is equivalent to one share in a particular company and the holder has the right to receive dividends, even though, as Bloomberg noted, “the companies themselves are not involved.”. This time around, there are a number of regulatory eyes watching – and watching in unison.

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BlueLight

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In this blog, I’m going to apply that math to a growing startup. Remember, when revenue numbers get bigger, net retention makes a huge difference. There are plenty of blogs that explain what net retention analysis is and the formula to calculate it. This is a good one. Let’s get started. Startup: Alex’s Lemonade SaaS Stand ??

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Just the math of an advisory firm only goes so far at the end of the day.” I could do the rough math on his firm. just to make the math easy. I love my numbers, KPIs, dashboards. If they were that good, were you paying them at that level?” ” And he said, “I can’t. If you charge 1.1

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