After doing more than 200 Masters in Business interviews, Barry Ritholtz finally ends up in the hot seat and will join Joel Weber and Eric Balchunas on Bloomberg’s Trillions podcast. In a lengthy interview, Ritholtz shares his views on tariffs, the state of the economy, politics, exchange-traded funds and whether financial advisers are even needed. Look for the episode on Aug. 23, but in the meantime here’s an excerpt to digest while you wait. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Aug 20, 2018•6 min
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Richard Sylla, professor emeritus of economics at New York University's Stern School of Business. Sylla is the author or co-author of several books, including “A History of Interest Rates.” He notes that rates in recent years are “the lowest in history, from the Code of Hammurabi to Babylon Civilization, Greek and Roman Civilization, the Middle Ages, Renaissance, right up until the present.” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information...
Aug 16, 2018•1 hr 6 min
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews hedge-fund manager Leon Cooperman of Omega Advisors about the thrill of finding an attractive investment everyone else has overlooked. Cooperman, 75, is converting his fund into a family office before the end of this year. He is also a billionaire philanthropist, and a member to Warren Buffett’s and Bill Gates’ Giving Pledge. He has committed to donating his fortune to charity during his lifetime. This is a Bloomberg Opinion podcast. To downl...
Aug 10, 2018•1 hr 9 min
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Torsten Slok, chief international economist and managing director at Deutsche Bank. Slok’s economics team has been top-ranked by Institutional Investor in fixed income and equities for the past five years. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Slok worked at the OECD in Paris and at the IMF in Washington, and studied in Copenhagen and Princeton. He has published numerous articles on economics and policy analysis, including in the Journal of Internat...
Aug 01, 2018•1 hr 7 min
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Robert Arnott, founder and chairman of Research Affiliates, a subadviser to PIMCO that specializes in innovative asset allocation and alternative indexation products. Prior to establishing the firm in 2002, he served as chairman of First Quadrant, president of TSA Capital Management (now part of Analytic Investors), and vice president at The Boston Company. Arnott has also published more than 100 articles in journals such as the Journal of Po...
Jul 26, 2018•1 hr 16 min
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews John Carreyrou, the Pulitzer-winning investigative reporter who exposed wrongdoing at the much-hyped startup Theranos. Its founder was recently charged with "massive fraud" by the SEC. Carreyrou has been awarded the George Polk Award for Financial Reporting, the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, and the Barlett & Steele Award for Investigative Journalism. His new book is "Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in...
Jul 19, 2018•1 hr 26 min
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Dave Butler of Dimensional Fund Advisors about how athletes manage their wealth. Butler, a star college basketball player who was drafted by the Boston Celtics, went on to become Dimensional's co-CEO and head of global financial advisor services. He is also on the firm’s executive committee and has been involved with strategic vision and decision-making for many years. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jul 13, 2018•1 hr 12 min
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Paul Vigna, a Wall Street Journal reporter who covers the cryptocurrency sector. His most recent book, co-authored with Michael J. Casey, is "The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything." He and Casey also co-authored 2015's "The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and the Blockchain Are Challenging the Global Economic Order." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jul 06, 2018•1 hr 35 min
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Grammy-winning guitarist Laurence Juber, whose playing fuses folk, jazz, blues, pop and classical styles. First internationally recognized as lead guitarist in Beatle Paul McCartney’s group Wings, Juber has released 25 solo albums. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 03, 2018•1 hr 22 min
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Todd Harrison, a founding partner and chief investment officer at the hedge fund CB1 Capital, which focuses on cannabinoid-based solutions and biopharmaceutical applications and therapies. Prior to his work with CB1 Capital, Harrison spent almost three decades on Wall Street managing risk and researching financial market strategies. He was also the founder and CEO of Minyanville Media Inc., an Emmy-winning financial media company covering glo...
Jun 28, 2018•1 hr 18 min
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Dr. Raife Giovinazzo of Fuller & Thaler Asset Management, a leader in applied behavioral finance. Giovinazzo conducts research using market insights to enhance investment processes at the firm. Prior to joining Fuller & Thaler, Dr. Giovinazzo was a researcher and co-portfolio manager with BlackRock's Scientific Active Equity group. He has a Ph.D. in finance as well as an MBA in analytic finance, economics and statistics, and studied u...
Jun 20, 2018•55 min
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews former senator George Mitchell, a leading figure in the Democratic Party who was credited with helping them win back the Senate majority in 1986.Mitchell was elected majority leader in 1989, a position he held until his retirement from the Senate in 1995. He was known among his colleagues in the Senate as an honest leader and skillful legislative strategist. After leaving the Senate, Mitchell was instrumental in negotiating a peace agreement ...
Jun 14, 2018•1 hr 21 min
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Cal Turner Jr., who in 1965 began his career at the company founded by his father and grandfather in 1939: Dollar General. He succeeded his father as president in 1977 and as chairman in 1988. At the time of his retirement in 2003, Dollar General had grown into a New York Stock Exchange retailer with more than 6,000 stores in 27 states and annual sales in excess of $6 billion. He is the author of "My Father's Business: The Small-Town Values T...
Jun 07, 2018•1 hr 9 min
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Libby Cantrill, a managing director and head of public policy at PIMCO. In addition to coordinating the firm's response to policy issues and analyzing political events for the firm’s investment committee, she is a member of the firm’s Americas portfolio committee. She is also a founding member of PIMCO Parents, an initiative focused on supporting parents and families, and PIMCO Women, whose mission is to attract, retain and develop women. Pri...
May 31, 2018•55 min
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Ed Yardeni, the president of Yardeni Research Inc., a provider of independent global investment strategy research. Dr. Yardeni previously served as chief investment strategist for Oak Associates; chief investment strategist and managing director of Prudential Equity Group; chief investment strategist for Deutsche Bank; and chief economist for C.J. Lawrence, Prudential Securities and E.F. Hutton. Yardeni recently published the book "Predicting...
May 23, 2018•1 hr 11 min
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Steve Murray, a managing partner at Revolution Growth who boasts more than 25 years of experience with technology businesses. He joined Revolution from SoftBank, where he worked with companies including Fitbit, BuzzFeed, E-Trade, Ziff Davis and Kabbage. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 18, 2018•1 hr 9 min
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews James Chanos, founder and president of Kynikos Associates LP, the world's largest exclusive short-selling investment firm. Throughout his investment career, Chanos has identified and sold short the shares of numerous well-known corporate financial disasters; his celebrated short-sale of Enron shares was dubbed by Barron's as "the market call of the decade, if not the past 50 years." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
May 11, 2018•55 min
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Benedict Evans, a partner at Silicon Valley venture capital fund Andreessen Horowitz. A longtime mobile analyst, Evans has worked in the media and technology industries for 15 years. Evans has worked in strategy and business development for NBC Universal, Channel 4 and Orange, and previously worked as a sell-side equity analyst covering European telecoms. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
May 03, 2018•1 hr 11 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Patty McCord, author of the recently released "Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility." McCord served as chief talent officer of Netflix for 14 years and helped create the Netflix Culture Deck. A veteran of Sun Microsystems, Borland and Seagate Technologies, she has also worked with small startups. McCord currently coaches and advises a small group of companies and entrepreneurs on culture and leadership. See omnystudio.com/l...
Apr 26, 2018•1 hr 13 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Joel Greenblatt, co-chief investment officer and managing principal at Gotham Asset Management, LLC. He has also been a director of Pzena Investment Management Inc. since October 2007. An adjunct professor at Columbia Business School since 1996, he teaches classes on value and special situation investing. He is the author of “You Can Be A Stock Market Genius,” “The Little Book That Beats the Market,” “The Little Book That Still Beats the Market”...
Apr 20, 2018•1 hr 16 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Annie Duke, an expert in the science of decision-making and for decades one of the top poker players in the world. In 2004, she bested a field of 234 players to win her first World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet. The same year, she triumphed in the $2 million winner-take-all, invitation-only WSOP Tournament of Champions. In 2010, she won the prestigious NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship. Prior to becoming a professional poker player, Ann...
Apr 12, 2018•1 hr 6 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Matthew Kadnar, a member of GMO’s asset allocation team. Prior to joining GMO in 2004, he was an investment specialist and consultant relations manager at Putnam Investments. Previously, he served as in-house counsel for LPL Financial Services and as a senior associate at Melick & Porter LLP. Kadnar has a B.S. from Boston College and a J.D. from Saint Louis University School of Law. He is a CFA charterholder. See omnystudio.com/listener for ...
Apr 05, 2018•1 hr 25 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews the legendary tennis player Serena Williams. Williams has won 23 singles titles in women's Grand Slam tournaments -- just one behind the all-time leader, Margaret Court -- as well as 23 doubles titles and two mixed doubles titles. Along with her individual successes, Serena has teamed up with her sister Venus to win a series of doubles titles. She is also a four-time Olympic gold medalist. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Mar 29, 2018•40 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews David Enrich, finance editor at the New York Times and author of "The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History." (That scam, of course, was the Libor scandal.) Previously the financial enterprise editor at the Wall Street Journal, Enrich has received numerous journalism awards, including an award from the Overseas Press Club for his coverage of the Europea...
Mar 29, 2018•1 hr 9 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Kathleen Fisher, head of wealth and investment strategies for AllianceBernstein L.P. In this role, she leads the team responsible for developing and communicating asset allocation advice and investment strategies for high-net-worth clients. Since 2013, she has also overseen research on investment planning and wealth transfer issues facing high-net-worth families as well as endowments and foundations. Kathy joined the firm in 2001 as a senior por...
Mar 23, 2018•50 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews James Donald, who serves as managing director and head of emerging markets at Lazard Asset Management, and serves as portfolio manager/analyst on the emerging markets equity team. Since joining Lazard in 1996, he has been instrumental in developing and coordinating its emerging-markets activities. Previously, he was a portfolio manager with Mercury Asset Management. He is also a board member of EMpower, a charity founded by investment profession...
Mar 19, 2018•1 hr 9 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews writer and media strategist Ryan Holiday. Holiday was 19 years old when he dropped out of college to apprentice under Robert Greene, author of “The 48 Laws of Power.” He went on to become the director of marketing for American Apparel. His creative agency, Brass Check, has advised clients like Google, TASER and Complex, as well as many prominent bestselling authors, including Neil Strauss, Tony Robbins and Tim Ferriss. He is the author of six bo...
Mar 08, 2018•1 hr 1 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews innovation expert Luis Perez-Breva, who directs MIT’s flagship hands-on innovation program -- the MIT Innovation Teams Program -- jointly operated by the schools of engineering and management. An entrepreneur and a Ph.D., he has taught innovation as a skill to professionals and students worldwide, co-led the Innovation Pillar of the MIT Skoltech Initiative, and collaborates with MIT’s innovation initiatives in Portugal, Singapore and the United ...
Feb 28, 2018•1 hr 14 min
Decrypted returns on March 6th with a brand new season. Here's a sneak peek of what's in store. We'll be releasing new episodes every Tuesday starting next week. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 27, 2018•2 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Pimco’s Jerome Schneider, who is managing director of the Newport Beach office and head of short-term portfolio management and funding. Morningstar named him Fixed-Income Fund Manager of the Year (U.S.) for 2015. Prior to joining Pimco in 2008, Schneider was a senior managing director with Bear Stearns. He has 22 years of investment experience and holds an undergraduate degree in economics and international relations from the University of Penns...
Feb 22, 2018•1 hr 8 min
