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25 Oct

A Broken Census Can Break Democracy

by Bruce Bartlett
A Broken Census Can Break Democracy The census is best known for determining how we the people are represented. But it also quietly...

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5 Oct

Are Corporations Scamming Their Shareholders?

by Bruce Bartlett
How Corporations Scam Their Shareholders and Screw Over Workers C-suite executives use share buybacks to manipulate stock prices for...

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27 Sep

How Corporations Pillaged the Free Market

by Bruce Bartlett
How Corporations Pillaged the Free Market Milton Friedman’s siren song of profit convinced lawmakers to stop worrying about people and...

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24 Sep

The Libertarian Ideas That Wrecked the Fed

by Bruce Bartlett
The Libertarian Ideas That Wrecked the Fed Milton Friedman’s influence on America’s monetary policy blew up the past and mortgaged...

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20 Sep

When the Republican Party Was Sane

by Bruce Bartlett
    When the Republican Party Was Sane President Eisenhower inherited a GOP that looked much like today’s—but he tamed the...

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17 Sep

A 400-Year-Old SPAC?

by Guest Author
  Art Cashin is Director of Floor Operations for UBS, where he also serves as a managing director of UBS Financial Services Inc. He...

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13 Sep

Fox News Shares the Blame for Trump’s Deranged, Ruinous...

by Bruce Bartlett
Fox News Shares the Blame for Trump’s Deranged, Ruinous Presidency A new book details how the president and his state media partners...

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6 Sep

Reagan, the anti-Trump

by Bruce Bartlett
Trump’s Republican Party Is Erasing Reagan’s Memory His demand for total idolatry requires the GOP rank and file to banish the 40th...

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30 Aug

Broke

by Bob Lefsetz
  Is this the new “Blurred Lines”? I’d say it’s a one listen smash, but that’s not an accurate...

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23 Aug

Today’s Music Business

by Bob Lefsetz
Stars are smaller than ever before. You might be number one on Spotify, you might generate a lot of ink in traditional media, but tons of...

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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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