Barry Ritholtz, Author at The Big Picture

We all know that the U.S. has a looming retirement crisis. The baby boomers do not save enough for their golden years. Social Security is...

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Jay-Z faces pressure to end his partnership with Barneys over racial profiling, but Larry Wilmore sees selling out as a sign of progress....

My evening train reading • U.K. acts to cap retirement-plan fees at 75 bps (MarketWatch) • The great austerity shell game (Guardian)...

A few weeks ago, Yale Professor Robert Shiller won the Nobel prize for his work on irrationality and inefficiency of markets. Since then,...

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Good Twitter IPO morning: • Going public: How Twitter’s IPO will work (AP) see also The Single Biggest Determinant of Startup...

click for updated Futures The market began Tuesday with futures deep in the red, only to closed mixed — the shallow pullback...

Lamborghini is known for making one-of-a-kind vehicles and their latest creation is no exception. At a price of just $4M, the Veneno is...

Implied Rate Correlations and Policy Expectations Allan M. Malz FRBSF, November 4, 2013 Certain financial instruments...