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17 Aug

Passive vs. Active

by Barry Ritholtz
  Yesterday I spent some time with Eric Balchunas recording a Masters in Business podcast. Balchunas is Senior ETF Analyst for...

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9 Aug

Is Partisanship Driving Consumer Sentiment?

by Barry Ritholtz
    I was chatting with my friend Pete Dominick last week, and he asked about consumer sentiment. I tossed out a few reasons...

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1 Aug

How Amazon Became Ordinary

by Barry Ritholtz
    “I constantly remind our employees to be afraid, to wake up every morning terrified. Not of our competition — but of...

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28 Jul

GDP = -0.9%

by Barry Ritholtz
    Following a negative GDP print in the first quarter, a strong but inflation-racked economy expanded in the second quarter...

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15 Jul

Even Socialists Misunderstand Indexing

by Barry Ritholtz
  Bernie, Bernie, Bernie. Of all the endless Wall Street things to be legitimately angry about – excess fees, leverage, conflicts...

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8 Jul

The Trouble with Consumer Sentiment

by Barry Ritholtz
    Yesterday’s discussion on Sentiment generated a lot of interest. Some people agreed that echo crashes are a form of...

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26 Jun

The Man Who Broke Capitalism

by Bob Lefsetz
If everybody in America read this book there would be a revolution: “The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the...

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20 Jun

Origins of Latte Nonsense

by Barry Ritholtz
    “Buy Yourself a F*^king Latte” was one of the more popular pieces I wrote in 2019. It was a debunking of a...

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9 Jun

Blame the Fed For Everything!

by Barry Ritholtz
    “It’s the Fed’s fault!” That has been the rallying cry for so many misguided analyses and criticisms going back...

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11 May

Low-Cost Indexing: Scapegoat for (fill in the blank)

by Barry Ritholtz
    As the market recovered from the great financial crisis, rallying off the lows, we kept hearing one rallying cry:...

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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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