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10 Jan

US Households: Half Spend More Than They Earn

by Barry Ritholtz
Source: Torsten Sløk, Deutsche Bank Securities     Today’s Employment Situation report — up 145k jobs (mostly...

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29 Dec

Billionaires

by Bob Lefsetz
  I was going to write about ticketing. That’s what you want to hear from me, music insight, right? Well, there’s a very...

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20 Dec

Top 1%: Wages up 158% since 1979

by Barry Ritholtz
Source: Economic Policy Institute     There is this weird counter-narrative to the wealth and income inequality issue. The data...

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4 Dec

Reforming Rigged Capitalism

by Barry Ritholtz
Source: Financial Times   Today’s must read column comes from Martin Wolfe of the Financial Times: How to reform today’s...

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3 Dec

America’s Biggest Cities Are Now the Most Unequal

by Barry Ritholtz
NYT: “Economic inequality has been rising everywhere in the United States. But it has been rising much more in the booming places...

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15 Sep

Nick Hanauer: The dirty secret of capitalism

by Barry Ritholtz
MIB guest Nick Hanauer delivers a short TED talk on inequality and policy. He was thrust into public view for his 2014 column “The...

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2 Sep

Assessing The Economy’s Winners & Losers

by Barry Ritholtz
It’s Labor Day, when the Summer winds down, and we celebrate the American worker. Given the importance of Labor to the economy, it...

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12 Aug

MIB: Are We Really At Full Employment ?

by Barry Ritholtz
The 3.6% unemployment rate is sending a misleading signal. If the United States was actually at full employment, wage pressure should be...

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1 Aug

Longest Period in History Without an Increase in Minimum Wage

by Barry Ritholtz
Congress has never let the federal minimum wage erode for this long Source: Economic Policy Institute   We are now deep into record...

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25 Jul

A Modest Defense of Money & Materialism

by Barry Ritholtz
Money Doesn’t Deserve the Bad Rap It’s Getting More of it won’t necessarily make you happier day-to-day, but it does raise life...

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  • About Barry Ritholtz

      Barry L. Ritholtz is co-founder, chairman, and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management LLC. His career's focus...

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