Barry Ritholtz, Author at The Big Picture

My afternoon train reading: • 5 Things We Learned on Big Data Wednesday (Real Time Economics) • The evolution of Bloomberg News...

From the Washington Post: Every year, premature death — that is, death attributable to causes other than old age — deprives people of...

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard talks about the potential for a reduction in the Fed’s bond buying, asset...

My late morning reads: • Jeremy Grantham’s Bullish Two-Year Outlook (Barron’s) see also The EM flow turnaround (FT...

Source: Yahoo Finance

How often do you make a decision to sell something for a giant gain? Quite a few times across the arc of a career, if you are a...

My afternoon train reading: • Here Are Some Issues With That Report About How The Unemployment Rate Was Faked Before The 2012 Election...

One of the favorite tropes of the “End the Fed” crowd is the “falling purchasing power of the U.S. dollar.” Google that...

Good Tuesday morning: • Alan Greenspan: Why I Never Saw It Coming (Foreign Affairs) • Benefits of Studying Insiders’ Trading...

Source: Barron’s If you have been paying any kind of attention to the mainstream media the past few years, you may...