Barry Ritholtz, Author at The Big Picture

After 3 lackluster days of modest selling, the Bulls reasserted themselves yesterday. The markets’ strong up day was on moderate volume...

Corp Law Prof Bainbridge has a rant about why Martha Stewart has not committed insider trading. Its a good piece, filled with solid...

Crude prices are approaching a critical level; NYMEX Crude has — quietly — risen 15% since its early Autumn price of $27. Its...

The 99¢ Solution: Time magazine picked Apple’s iTunes as the “coolest new technology” in the music category for 2003....

After a healthy run up in the indices, the markets have been churning, unable to make much upwards progress. This lack of progress has...

Payrolls rise for the 3rd consecutive month; Net job creation will start occurring when the change in payrolls is plus 200,000. Change in...

Last week, I referenced an article — “Need a New Barometer for Stocks? Try the Price of Oil” — which discussed...

20k since July 2003. Very, very cool. Thanks to all who posted comments. We went from neglible hits per day to about 500 and rising. (I...

Barrons Gene Epstein makes an interesting observation regarding the recent jobless stats. He notes that extrapolating these numbers from...

Forbes on Fox went pretty well — too short to intelligently discuss equities — and they came in way too close — so I...