Barry Ritholtz, Author at The Big Picture

.Interesting discussion between John Irons and Andrew Samwick over at WSJ (free) The Economic Crystal Ball: Cloudy, or Clearing?...

…My latest Street.com column, "Five Under-the-Radar Trends for 2005" is up at RM. These five are significant issues which...

Raymond James’ Jeffrey Saut references John Magee‘s New Year’s resolutions for investors: Resolved, that in the coming...

Nielsen SoundScan reported that, as of last Sunday, unit sales reached 665.5 million for 2004. That represents a modest 1.4% increase...

OK, my last rant for the year about the music industry: Yesterday, we discussed the attempts to wring more dollars out of smaller...

How bad was this quake? US Scientists think it may have made the Earth wobble. A few resources that might have gotten overlooked...

Just about a year ago, we discussed the music industry’s intent to “decommoditize their products." The problem with that...

The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index Rebounds In December The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index, which had...

. The Sunday NYT reveals a common misunderstanding about volatility: "Feeling relaxed? Evidently, many investors are. An important...

Ralph Acampora is the Chief Technical Strategist for Prudential Equity Group (part of Wachovia). Too many years ago, I took Ralph’s...