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17 May

Inflation Expectations Are Useless

by Barry Ritholtz
  Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve spend a lot of time worrying about Inflation Expectations. They shouldn’t. Generally,...

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10 May

3% or Bust

by Barry Ritholtz
  First, the good news: Consumer Price Index (CPI) came in modest at 0.4%, with a year-over-year print of 4.9%. I love the 4 handle...

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4 May

Want More Jobs? Raise the Minimum Wage

by Barry Ritholtz
I have been writing about issues with the minimum wage for (it seems like) decades. During that time, consuming lots of academic...

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27 Apr

GDP & State Coincident Indicators: Cooling, But No Recession

by Barry Ritholtz
    I have been putting together my Q2 quarterly client call, and impatiently waiting for two last data points to show: State...

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12 Apr

CPI = 5.0% (Time to Stop Raising Rates)

by Barry Ritholtz
  U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) rose 0.1 percent in March on a...

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10 Apr

Help Wanted!

by Barry Ritholtz
  Nonfarm payrolls came out Friday, and once again they impressed with their underlying strength: 236,000 new workers were added in...

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20 Feb

Macro Snapshot / St. Louis Fed

by Barry Ritholtz
Very useful dashboard via the St. Louis Fed, which maintains the fabulous FRED database. With a clean and simple interface, it puts all...

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15 Feb

U.S. Stock Market Returns Over Rolling 1/5/10/20 Year Periods

by Barry Ritholtz
Source: The Measure of a Plan

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23 Dec

Thoughts On Owning the Libs

by Invictus
  @TBPInvictus here. (Also on Post and Mastodon). Happy holidays to all, and the best for 2023. It’s been a hot minute since...

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5 Dec

Top 0.1%: How Much Wealth Does It Take?

by Barry Ritholtz
  I was working on a longer piece about which economic strata the Fed has the greatest impact on (its more complicated than you...

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  • About Barry Ritholtz

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

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