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5 Sep

Lag This! Payrolls Drop by 93,000 Jobs

by Barry Ritholtz
Yes, payroll numbers, unemployment and joblessness are lagging indicators. It’s a well known understood process: As companies start...

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4 Sep

Now you tell me . . .

by Barry Ritholtz
Bernard Bernanke on the thankless task of economic forecasting: “When I was a boy in South Carolina, my parents always advised me...

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4 Sep

Structural Job Loss “Complicates” Recovery

by Barry Ritholtz
On numerous occasions we have written (more times than we care to recall) that this has been a unique recession/recovery cycle with a...

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3 Sep

States Embarrassing the Feds, part IV

by Barry Ritholtz
After years (if not decades) of failing to discharge their duties with diligence or honor, we have now reached the point where the SEC is...

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30 Aug

Gasoline Prices

by Barry Ritholtz
A few factual tidbits re: rising gas prices; (labor day weekend often marks the peak in gasoline prices for the year). Its a subject I...

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29 Aug

States Embarrassing the Feds, part III

by Barry Ritholtz
The very able Jesse Eisinger of the WSJ this morning observes that the Feds have nobody to blame but themselves for Oklahoma stepping...

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28 Aug

States Embarrassing the Feds, part II

by Barry Ritholtz
Houston Chronicle shut out of 2 more hearings By MARY FLOOD Fastow transcript still denied release, A federal judge held two more closed...

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28 Aug

Why the States are embarrassing the Feds

by Barry Ritholtz
First, the handwringing. Solemn, serious soliloquies. Then comes angst: “This will interfere with our methodical case building...

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21 Aug

The Beeb asks the rest of the World about U.S.

by Barry Ritholtz
The BBC hosted a unique global television debate about America’s place in the world with 10 other national broadcasters. As part of...

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16 Aug

Physics vs. Economics

by Barry Ritholtz
Quote of the Day: “The laws of physics have met the laws of economics. And the result has been a morass that has prevented the...

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      Barry L. Ritholtz is co-founder, chairman, and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management LLC. Launched in...

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