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25 Dec

Massive crater under Greenland’s ice points to...

by Barry Ritholtz
Source: Science   This is a wild story — check it out: On a bright July day 2 years ago, Kurt Kjær was in a helicopter flying...

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24 Dec

Nat Gas Surpasses Coal for Electricity Generation

by Barry Ritholtz
Source: NYT   Its hard to argue with the data here: Coal was the major and majority source of energy for electrical generation for...

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20 Dec

40 Years of Music Industry Sales

by Barry Ritholtz
Source: Visual Capitalist   Fascinating: The record industry has seen a lot of change over the years. 8-tracks took a short-lived...

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19 Dec

24 Cognitive Biases Warping Your Reality

by Barry Ritholtz
Source: Visual Capitalist

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19 Dec

2,000 Years of Economic History in One Chart

by Barry Ritholtz
Source: Visual Capitalist

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18 Dec

$80 Trillion World Economy

by Barry Ritholtz
While China’s economy is far behind in nominal terms at $12.2 trillion, you may recall that the Chinese economy has been the world’s...

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10 Dec

Madoff’s Victims Are Close to Being Made Whole

by Barry Ritholtz
This is quite astonishing: A decade after Bernard Madoff was arrested for running the world’s biggest Ponzi scheme, the bitter fight to...

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1 Dec

Global Inequalities in CO₂ Emissions

by Barry Ritholtz
Source: Our World In Data

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28 Nov

Changes in Emerging Markets, 2000 – 2017

by Barry Ritholtz
From UBS via Meb: In the last two decades, the Chinese economy has overtaken the US in PPP, while India’s is now as large as Germany,...

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27 Nov

Dashboard: Recession Watch

by Barry Ritholtz
I really like the cyclical depiction of the business cycle via this Infographic from LPL Financial Research. A long, slow recovery, like...

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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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