Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And I was a math nerd as a kid. He developed the Ginnie Mae contract, which at one time was a big thing in treasury bond contract. ’cause bad things can happen to undifferentiated retailers. It’s what the much maligned retail investor was doing. And the value line has all these statistical patterns.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

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? RIEDER: Why do you need the price of the Treasury market to the two-year forward or the three-year forward? 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. I’m assuming it’s primarily institutional and not retail. And so if you look at this over a longer period of time, the way we think about it is that technology ate retail and we all kind of saw it, right? Fascinating.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 15, 2024

I don’t, I don’t know what else to say other than there are a few people in the world that understand running a fixed income portfolio on behalf of institutional or retail clients, a as well as Matt Egan does. I started out math and, and physics, and in high school I was a rock star in math and physics. Matt Eagan.

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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

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. And I just caught the bug. Become options market makers. You learn the technology.

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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. Don’t write it down, but they surveyed retailers. Like re like retail for example, or autos, trucking companies, you name it. How do you measure GDP two weeks or three weeks after the quarter ends or retail sales eight days after the month ends.

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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. 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. It’s really attracting a lot of retail dollars. That’s a shocking number.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

LINDZON: So first year at ’01, ‘02, you have Apple and they blew out the store model, the retail model, which no one thought. You know, I’m just a retail Yahoo finance kind of guy. So this is the math that I applied. So think about this, do the math. RITHOLTZ: Right. RITHOLTZ: 2004, 2005. LINDZON: I hate CNBC.

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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. It had gone from a fairly, fairly heavy retail business to a very institutional business. Hank Paulson had left to go become treasury secretary. We now had the securities business.

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