Barry Ritholtz

You, your employer and your plan's investment managers fail to follow even the most basic rules of investing. You overtrade, chase performance,…

— Barry Ritholtz

Keynes vs Hayek? Friedman vs Krugman? Those are the wrong intellectual debates. Its you vs. Tony Hayward, BP CEO, You vs. Lloyd…

— Barry Ritholtz

The market is going to love it. The market always seems to applaud major mergers, even though the vast majority of them…

— Barry Ritholtz

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

Asset managers have different approaches, and I don't wish to suggest there is only one way to run money. There are many…

— Barry Ritholtz

With Twitter, you can build your own virtual trading floor and research department, populated by the smartest people on earth. Almost any…

— Barry Ritholtz

The way we finance homes in this country is slow, filled with middlemen, who run a nonstandardized evaluation process. This makes financing…

— Barry Ritholtz

Unlike cheap stocks, inexpensive asset classes have a lower chance of big drawdowns (broad asset classes don't go to zero) and a…

— Barry Ritholtz

You have a natural tendency to want an emotionally satisfying tale - and to make investments based on that - despite times…

— Barry Ritholtz

Whenever you hear a discussion about the short-term swings in any given stock's price, your immediate thought should be whether it matters…

— Barry Ritholtz

A number of bloggers in economics and the financial sector have risen to prominence through the sheer strength of their work. Note…

— Barry Ritholtz

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

What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are…

— Barry Ritholtz

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

Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move…

— Barry Ritholtz

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

Investing is about making probabilistic decisions with limited information about an unknowable future. The variables are well known, as are the possible…

— Barry Ritholtz

Secular cycles are the long periods - as long as decades - that come to define each market era. These cycles alternate…

— Barry Ritholtz

Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is…

— Barry Ritholtz

Any time you speak to people about their posture, you learn about their most recent investment activity. When someone just bought stocks,…

— Barry Ritholtz

Owning a variety of asset classes means that some part of your portfolio will be doing well when the cyclical turmoil arises.…

— Barry Ritholtz

For those of you who may be unaware, [Michael] Boskin is the economist/weasel/fraud who helped to officially distort the CPI, making it…

— Barry Ritholtz

Much of the traditional thinking about cash is well intentioned but unrealistic. Should you have six months of living expenses in the…

— Barry Ritholtz