Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I wasn’t that typical person that did a number of, you know, internships during the summer, had that …. I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. One, we also saw a record number of credit card openings in Q1 and Q2.

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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. And so there was a number of less liquid markets that made for quite wide spreads. And you know, I think ultimately there was a number of opportunities that came out.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

So I think that resiliency piece, never giving up, never giving in, redefining, Barry, success as going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm, I think that’s everything. Number one, a school district is a business. And like every business, they want revenue and they’d like to have a surplus profit.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 20, 2024

00:03:14 [Mike Greene] So that was actually an outgrowth from my experience coming out of Wharton and you mentioned the, the, you know, the transition of people who tended to be skilled at math or physics into finance. So the actual source of profitability in that trade is not the level of the vix, but the shape of the vol surface.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. Graham Foster] : 00:02:54 That was a number, that was number theory, pure number theory. It gets further and further away the D P U go.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 18, 2024

And they had a belief at the time of driving growth profitably whereby you could organically acquire customers. 00:40:26 [Speaker Changed] They, they know, they know math, they know math. Was it a loss? That that’s a serious 01:08:03 [Speaker Changed] Media number. That’s a great question.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 27, 2023

It’s a matter of making better decisions and being more profitable. RITHOLTZ: There’s safety in numbers. That’s an amazing lesson in life, right, to take failure and losses as business as usual. MIELLE: It’s the probability and the severity of your loss, but sticking with it is, you know, what it takes.

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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. I mean, those were the — that’s what got people all excited and — RITHOLTZ: That’s venture capital numbers.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And I was a math nerd as a kid. And because my mother and grandmother were looking at these trying to figure out what was going on, I was curious about the sea of numbers. They announced a $640 million loss and ouch. And 00:28:03 [Speaker Changed] That’s an amazing number. So I took that. That was real money.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 27, 2023

Peter Borish, founding partner number two at Tudor Investments where he worked directly with Paul Tudor Jones, most famously helping him put on a very aggressive short position heading into the ’87 crash. .” RITHOLTZ: So literally number two at the firm? RITHOLTZ: Put up your losses in advance.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

You can use this in a number of ways. And that’s a pretty good number. ASNESS: Some of the things like betting against beta, quality or profitability, carry strategies were additions over time. Meaning, low beta stocks have kept up with high beta stocks, which in the simplest theory, they’re not supposed to.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

and I don’t know if this is from the book or or my research, Forbes settled on that number. Because he was all sure he was a totally isolated math. So, so he’s brilliant at math. He goes to m i t to study, study physics and math. But in math camp, he’s not the best. And the Undoing project.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

So a lot of the headline names, you see a lot of the stories you see about, about the financial crisis, a significant number of, of those investors we were helping in security selection, modeling, and analytics. So in mortgages, the borrower can stop paying maybe a year to two years before the lenders actually book a loss.

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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

The economic dislocation, the health risks, just the mayhem that took place, but from the perspective of a number of corporate CEOs, Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital, the hedge fund that had a couple of amazing trades based on this. Ends up turning about $27 million of swap premiums into 2 billion plus in profit. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 2, 2024

Really, the work he’s done on inequality came after the Nobel Prize based on a book him and his wife put out, and a number of papers. 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. Am I getting 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. Honest back testing, really looking at the numbers versus exaggerating returns and, and making up the claim that something’s live when it’s not.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Behavioral finance has a number of fathers, including Dick Thor and, and Danny Kahneman. Colin Camerer : So I, some of it was when I was in college at Johns Hopkins, I, I studied physics and math. And number theory was just too mind blowing, you know, for me. The math doesn’t math. That was too abstract.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

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. If you look at the, if you look at the filing and you look at the size of the company and the revenue, the entire yearly revenue numbers would be a bad quarter right? That’s unbelievable.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 23, 2022

And I was kind of intrigued and so I said, can we discuss it, and he laid it out on a conference table and I said, what’s this number? And then I said, what’s this number down here, and he said, this is last year’s earnings. And that number was $160 million. So, I did the math, 20 million times a hundred.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 22, 2023

SUNSTEIN: Well, when you say directly, that’s true, except the number of meetings I had with President Reagan was zero. The number of mediated interactions I had with President Reagan was about five, and the amount of work that I did for the president was basically every day. That’s an insane number. SUNSTEIN: Yes.

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