Have a well-thought financial plan that is not dependent upon correctly guessing what will happen in the future. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
This ugly duckling investment will likely need time - quarters, or even years - to blossom into a beautiful swan. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
I have been a member of the Microsoft-bashing society for quite some time. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Little white lies are told by humans all the time. Indeed, lying is often how we get through each day in a… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
A hedge fund manager whose clients demand monthly performance reports has different needs than any individual investors with a 20-year time horizon.… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
People forget that although we can pinpoint the price, we can only guess at future earnings. The past isn't much help: It… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Any time you speak to people about their posture, you learn about their most recent investment activity. When someone just bought stocks,… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Google's founders have had a good eye for imagining what technologies will be significant in the near future. No one asked Google… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Investing is about making probabilistic decisions with limited information about an unknowable future. The variables are well known, as are the possible… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Most of the time, economic data is fairly benign. I don't wish to imply it is meaningless, but it is not a… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Markets are frequently ahead of, and often out of sync with, the economy. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
This ugly duckling investment will likely need time - quarters, or even years - to blossom into a beautiful swan. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Yearly data put the rest of the noise into perspective. Most of the weekly or monthly random up-and-down movements get smoothed out. Ultimately, this… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
A number of bloggers in economics and the financial sector have risen to prominence through the sheer strength of their work. Note it was… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an urgency for… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
