Barry Ritholtz, Author at The Big Picture

Have I been too hard on the Conference Board? Has my criticism of their modification of the LEIs been unjustified? I think not, but my...

I wanted to address some of the historical comparos as to why the market has been moving higher, despite what is obviosuly (at least to...

In keeping with my 9/11 tradition, I am not going to write anything new on this; I’ve already had my say. Instead, I will merely...

This weeks Barron’s has an interesting chart from Sy Harding. If you are unfamiliar with Harding’s work, have a look at his...

My latest Real Money column, "Ignore the Pundits — Katrina Will Hurt" is posted. It is loosely based on Thursday’s...

The aggregate headline economic data shows things are not all that bad, and the recovery is proceeding modestly along — why then,...

Some nice comments from Briefing.com: Thoughts From Maxim Group: The always astute, not to mention witty, Barry Ritholtz notes that...

Barron’s ran with last Thursday’s Katrina Lowers Year End Expectations in the online edition (That makes two...

As long as we are pulling out the key graphs from that Rydex pdf, here’s another interesting chart: > Historical Betas of...

The previous chart reveals the long standing secular moves of the markets; What’s an investor to do during one of the long periods...