Barry Ritholtz - The Big Picture

1 day ago | ritholtz.com | Barry Ritholtz

This week, I speak with Bryon Lake, Goldman Sachs Asset Management Chief Transformation Officer for the Client Solutions Group. He designs portfolio solutions and extend Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s suite of investment strategies to the world’s leading institutional investors and wealth management clients. Bryon started at PowerShares in the ETF industry eventually becoming head of International ETFs for Invesco.

1 day ago | ritholtz.com | Barry Ritholtz

My end-of-week morning train plane reads:• Operation Spiderweb: a visual guide to Ukraine’s destruction of Russian aircraft. In a spectacular attack planned over 18 months, Ukrainian agents moved drones and explosives deep inside Russia to strike four airbases  (The Guardian)• D-Day: 10 things you might not know about the Normandy invasion: On 6 June 1944, British, US and Canadian forces invaded the coast of Normandy in northern France.

2 days ago | ritholtz.com | Barry Ritholtz

At The Money: Algorithmic Harm with Professor Cass Sunstein, Harvard LawWhat is the impact of “ Algorithms” on the prices you pay for your Uber, what gets fed to you on TikTok, even the prices you pay in the supermarket? Full transcript below. ~~~About this week’s guest:Cass Sunstein, professor at Harvard Law School co-author of the new book, “Algorithmic Harm: Protecting People in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” Previously he co-authored “Nudge” with Nobel Laureate Dick Thaler.

4 days ago | ritholtz.com | Barry Ritholtz

I’m on the road visiting our new office in Chicago and then heading to meet clients in San Francisco. However, after hearing some misinformation on TV from the usual suspects, I felt compelled to remind people of some key facts about the US debt and deficits. For a period of ~20 years, beginning after the September 11th attack, accelerating after the GFC, and running up until the 2022 rate hikes, the United States enjoyed incredibly low interest rates.

5 days ago | ritholtz.com | Barry Ritholtz

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Tom Barkin, Richmond Federal Reserve President & CEO, is below. You can stream and download our full conversation, including any podcast extras, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and Bloomberg. All of our earlier podcasts on your favorite pod hosts can be found here. ~~~00:00:02 [Speaker Changed] Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio News.