Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Rich Barton, the Microsoft engineer who developed Expedia while working for Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer in the 1990s. Barton then co-founded real estate app Zillow and jobs site Glassdoor, and joined the board of directors at Netflix, where he remains to this day. Barton tells Ritholtz that his companies bring transparency to industries that have traditionally lacked it. “Power to the people” says Barton, is not a political slogan, but “a techn...
Jul 28, 2017•1 hr 21 min
Alan Shaw, founder of the Market Technicians Association and former managing director of the technical research department at Smith Barney, tells Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz that he's happy he's not working today: It's much more difficult to be a technician and be in institutional sales than it was when he was working.\u0010\u0010(Note: This is a podcast extra which will not air on Bloomberg Radio.) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jul 26, 2017•55 min
Jesse Eisinger, the Pulitzer-winning journalist now working at ProPublica, tells Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz how the collapse of Arthur Andersen, Enron and WorldCom led to a neutered Justice Department. The title of his new book, "The Chickenshit Club," comes from a speech that then-Southern District U.S. Attorney James Comey gave to prosecutors saying that if they were never losing, they were only taking on easy cases. This interview aired on Bloomberg Radio. See omnystudio.com/list...
Jul 23, 2017•1 hr 3 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Ed Thorp, one of the most storied people in finance. A math professor at MIT and UC Ivine, Thorp figured out how to beat Las Vegas at blackjack and baccarat, created statistical arbitrage, and ran a hedge fund that not only beat the market by a wide margin, but never had a losing quarter. He is the author of several books, including "Beat the Dealer" and "Beat the Market"; his latest book is "A Man for All Markets." Thorp tells Ritholtz that the...
Jul 14, 2017•1 hr 41 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Duff McDonald, a journalist and author of two critically acclaimed books, "The Golden Passport: Harvard Business School, the Limits of Capitalism, and the Moral Failure of the MBA Elite" and "The Firm: The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business." McDonald tells Barry Ritholtz why the elite institutions that feed into government, business and finance are broken, and what must be done to fix them. This interview aired on B...
Jul 07, 2017•1 hr 12 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Chris Anderson, a co-founder and CEO of 3D Robotics, and the founder of DIY Drones. He was with the Economist for seven years before joining WIRED magazine as the editor-in chief. Anderson tells Ritholtz that the dot-com collapse masked the organic growth of the internet by real users. The innovations of the late 1990s are obvious at Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple, but there is a new crop of disruptive and innovative technologies coming up r...
Jul 05, 2017•1 hr 39 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Anindya Ghose, a professor of information, operations and management sciences as well as marketing at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business, tells Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz that technology is changing things even more rapidly than we might have guessed only a few years ago. The future as envisioned in such science fiction films as Philip K. Dick’s “Minority Report” isn’t several decades away -- it's only two or ...
Jun 22, 2017•1 hr 15 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Ned Davis, a senior investment strategist who founded the Ned Davis Research Group (NDRG). He is the author of "Being Right or Making Money" and "The Triumph of Contrarian Investing." This interview aired on Bloomberg Radio. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 15, 2017•1 hr 4 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Daron Acemoglu, Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at MIT. He is the recipient of several awards, including the 2005 John Bates Clark Medal. He is the co-author of "Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty" and among the most cited economists in the world. This interview aired on Bloomberg Radio. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 09, 2017•51 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews William F. Sharpe, the STANCO 25 professor of finance, emeritus, at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. Sharpe is a past president of the American Finance Association and received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1990. This interview aired on Bloomberg Radio. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 02, 2017•1 hr 55 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Brian Greene, professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University. Professor Greene is world-renowned for his groundbreaking discoveries in the field of superstring theory, including the co-discovery of mirror symmetry and the discovery of spatial topology change. He is the director of Columbia’s Center for Theoretical Physics. This interview aired on Bloomberg Radio. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
May 26, 2017•1 hr 16 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Marc Andreessen, co-founder and general partner of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He serves on the boards of the following Andreessen Horowitz portfolio companies: Anki, Honor, Lytro, Mori, OpenGov, Samsara and TinyCo. He is also on the boards of Facebook, Hewlett-Packard and MODE Media. This interview aired on Bloomberg Radio. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
May 19, 2017•1 hr 22 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Byron Scott and Charlie Norris. Scott is a former head coach and player with the Los Angeles Lakers; Norris is the chairman of the board at Freshpet Inc. They are the co-authors of “Slam-Dunk Success: Leading from Every Position on Life's Court." This interview aired on Bloomberg Radio. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 12, 2017•52 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Michael Zezas, who is chief strategist for public policy and municipal bonds at Morgan Stanley. Zezas earned a bachelor’s degree in political economy from Georgetown University and a master’s in public affairs from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a CFA charterholder as well as a member of the CFA Institute, the New York Society of Securities Analysts, the National Federation of Municipal Analysts, and...
May 07, 2017•52 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Meir Statman, the Glenn Klimek Professor of Finance at Santa Clara University. His research focuses on behavioral finance. He attempts to understand how investors and managers make financial decisions and how these decisions are reflected in financial markets. His most recent book is “Finance for Normal People: How Investors and Markets Behave,” published by Oxford University Press. This commentary aired on Bloomberg Radio. See omnystudio.com/li...
Apr 27, 2017•1 hr 25 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Andrew Lo, director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering and the Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Lo holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Yale University and a doctorate in economics from Harvard University. This commentary aired on Bloomberg Radio. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 21, 2017•1 hr 15 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Charles D. Ellis, who founded the international strategy consulting firm Greenwich Associates in 1972. He now serves as an investing consultant to large institutional investors, government organizations and wealthy families. His latest book is “The Index Revolution.” This commentary aired on Bloomberg Radio. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 13, 2017•1 hr 20 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Ken Fisher, chief executive officer and co-chief investment officer of Fisher Investments, a multibillion-dollar independent money management firm. This interview aired on Bloomberg. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 07, 2017•1 hr 30 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz presents a replay of Burt Malkiel's interview, Chemical Bank Chairman’s Professor of Economics, Emeritus, senior economist. He is the author of the widely read investment book "A Random Walk Down Wall Street." This interview aired on Bloomberg Radio. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 31, 2017•1 hr 38 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Derek Thompson, author of the book "Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction." Thompson is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where he writes about economics, labor markets and the media. This commentary aired on Bloomberg Radio. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 24, 2017•1 hr 22 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Yuval Noah Harari, author of the international bestseller “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.” Professor Harari received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 2002, and is now a lecturer in the department of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This commentary aired on Bloomberg Radio. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 17, 2017•52 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Simon Lack, managing partner and founder of SL Advisors LLC. Lack sat on JPMorgan’s investment committee allocating over $1 billion to hedge fund managers and founded the JPMorgan Incubator Funds, two private equity vehicles that took economic stakes in emerging hedge fund managers. This commentary aired on Bloomberg Radio. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 10, 2017•1 hr 44 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Scott Galloway, an adjunct professor of marketing at the NYU Stern School of Business, where he teaches brand strategy and digital marketing to second-year MBA students. He is also the author of the Digital IQ Index ®, a global ranking of prestige brands' digital competence. This commentary aired on Bloomberg Radio. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 03, 2017•1 hr 20 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute and professor of health policy and management at Columbia University. His most recent book is "To Move the World: JFK's Quest for Peace" (2013). This commentary aired on Bloomberg Radio. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 23, 2017•1 hr 3 min
Feb. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Howard Marks, co-founder and co-chairman of Oaktree Capital Management. Marks is a member of the investment committees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Edmond J. Safra Foundation; a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum; chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Drawing School; and an emeritus trustee of the University of Pennsylvania (where from 2000 to 2010 he chaired the investment board). This commentary air...
Feb 17, 2017•1 hr 17 min
Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Sebastian Mallaby, a Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. One of his latest book is “More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite.” This commentary aired on Bloomberg Radio. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 03, 2017•1 hr 3 min
Jan. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Saadia Madsbjerg, managing director of the Rockefeller Foundation. She leads the foundation’s work on innovative finance solutions. This commentary aired on Bloomberg Radio. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jan 27, 2017•1 hr 1 min
Jan. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Charles D. Ellis, who founded the international strategy consulting firm Greenwich Associates in 1972. He now serves as an investing consultant to large institutional investors, government organizations and wealthy families. His latest book is “The Index Revolution.” This commentary aired on Bloomberg Radio. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jan 20, 2017•1 hr 19 min
Jan. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Brett Steenbarger, a clinical psychologist who has published numerous articles and books on trading psychology. He is a clinical associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, N.Y. This commentary aired on Bloomberg Radio. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jan 13, 2017•1 hr 13 min
Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Dana Telsey, chief executive officer and chief research officer of Telsey Advisory Group (TAG). In 2015, Ms. Telsey also formed Telsey Consumer Fund Management LP, an asset management firm that manages a long/short hedge fund investing in consumer-based companies. This commentary aired on Bloomberg Radio. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jan 06, 2017•1 hr 5 min
