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 are not making any mistakes, you are being excessively risk-averse. Investing involves risk, and that means you will occasionally be… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
No one knows what the top-performing asset class will be next year. Lacking this prescience, your next-best solution is to own all… — 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
It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Owning a variety of asset classes means that some part of your portfolio will be doing well when the cyclical turmoil arises.… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Commissions add up, taxes are a big drag, margin ain't cheap. A good accountant costs money as well. The math on this… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Often, investors will discover a manager after he's had a terrific run, usually when he lands on a magazine cover somewhere. Invariably,… — 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
