Barry Ritholtz, Author at The Big Picture

Say what you will about the 2016 midterms, but turnout was record setting: Source: FiveThirtyEight

The giant Inside ETF conference just wrapped up in Hollywood Florida. It is an immense affair, with 2400 attendees, plus a 100 exhibitors...

My Valentine’s Day morning train reads: • How Do I Love Thee? A Mathematician Counts the Ways (Wall Street Journal) • The...

Different types of music affects your brain in different ways. If you’re trying to focus, there’s scientifically a specific...

Why would any multinational corporation pay the new 21 percent rate when it could use the new “global minimum” loophole to pay half...

Let’s say you had the ability of a god – you could determine the exact low point of the stock market each year], in...

My midweek morning train reads: • How to Wreck a Pension Plan in 3 Easy Steps. (Wealth of Common Sense) • Bad Real Estate Lessons...

This is a little inside baseball, but in light of the various conversations I have have down in Florida about trading and fees and data...

You know my views on Presidents and the economy: Too much credit for when things go right, too much blame when things go wrong. Still, I...

I sat down with one of my greatest heroes, Paul Volcker, to talk about the state of the economy and U.S. government as well as learn...