What Caused the Demise of the US Coal Industry?
Coal Isn’t Dying Because There’s a War on It Regulation is often blamed for the industry’s woes. There’s more to...
John Oliver on Retirement Plans
Saving for retirement means navigating a potential minefield of high fees and bad advice. Billy Eichner and Kristin Chenoweth share some...
Why Plan Sponsors need Professional (Independent) Advice?
Dan McConlogue is the Director of Corporate Retirement Plans at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Dan is the principal and founder of Eleven...
Deciding What to Pay Attention To
The Distraction of Investment Noise Bloomberg, June 6, 2016 This has been a very noisy few months in terms of the...
The Best Sort of Financial Advisor Will Tell You ‘No’
Say ‘yes’ to the financial adviser who will tell you ‘no’ Barry Ritholtz Washington Post, May 29, 2016 Is finance a...
Trump: Unemployment is 20%; BLS Data is Fraudulent
By now, we have become almost used to a steady stream of inaccurate statements from the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Most...
Do $100 Million Apartments Mean We Are in a Bubble ?
Be on Guard Against Bubble Sightings A surge in the number of super-expensive houses for sale doesn’t tell us anything about the...
Fooled Ya!
I am heading out for the long weekend, and then off to speak at a CFA conference, so expect light postings the next week (Reads continue...
How Reproducible is Alpha?
Is alpha, the Wall Street term for market-beating returns, sustainable? Or is it a unique, statistical outlier, indistinguishable from...