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22 Aug

Brilliant Economists Can’t Figure It Out

by Barry Ritholtz
Tom Toles perfectly sums up both the present economic environment, and the problem with economists:

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21 Aug

Real Income Fails to Rise for most of the 2000s

by Barry Ritholtz
I’ve been talking about this for years, but I am glad to see quantifiable proof has now been adduced. According to IRS data:...

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7 Jul

How Good Was NFP Really?

by Barry Ritholtz
Whoever wrote the headline for today’s WSJ is our latest nominee for Peyote spokesman of the month. I don’t know gets the...

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11 Apr

The Capital Commerce Debate

by Barry Ritholtz
Over at US News & World Report, I am engaged in a debate on the state of the Economy with none other than Don Luskin. It will run...

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10 Apr

How Blogging Can Help You Get a New Job

by Barry Ritholtz
Since we have been discussing Blogging so much lately, and today is positivity day, let’s briefly discuss this article in...

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9 Apr

Global Boom ?

by Barry Ritholtz
We’ve mentioned the Recency effect several times of late. You can see no better example of this cognitive bias than in David...

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6 Apr

NFP Day?

by Barry Ritholtz
I cannot remember the last time a NFP report came out on a day when the Equity Markets were closed (Bond markets are open half a day)....

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31 Mar

Income Gap Continues to Widen

by Barry Ritholtz
To regular readers of TBP, this is very old news – but the significant play it has gotten recently is not. We started discussing...

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3 Jan

Wage Surge?

by Barry Ritholtz
David Leonhardt, in today’s NYT column, It’s the Year to Keep an Eye on Paychecks: "Before the present wage surge began,...

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8 Dec

NFP: Watch the Comp

by Barry Ritholtz
Last month, we retired the Over/Under bet. The monthly and annual BLS revisions have conspired to make the initial numbers all but...

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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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