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Barry Ritholtz

Barry Ritholtz is a Bloomberg View columnist writing about finance, the economy and the business world. He started the Big Picture blog in 2003 and is the founder of Ritholtz Wealth Management, an asset management and financial planning firm. Ritholtz was previously the chief executive officer and director of equity research at FusionIQ, a quantitative research firm for which he continues to consult. He is the author of "Bailout Nation" and is a graduate of Stony Brook University and Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. He lives on New York's Long Island with his wife.

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Sure, Invest Like A Billionaire, If You Are One

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Investors should remember that finance history is replete with terrible market calls by very wealthy people.

Economists Turn A Blind Eye To Historical Data

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We're seeing the same blind spot: a pre-crisis dependence on the wrong data set of post-World War II recessions.

Investor Education Seems To Be Going In Reverse

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Academic evidence suggests that investor education is at best an uphill battle, and at worst a big waste of time.

Let's Put The Lehman Bailout Debate To Rest

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Should the Fed have saved Lehman Brothers? The question is being hotly debated once again.

CEOs Are Paid Fortunes Just To Be Average

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Share price isn't a very precise way of compensating for value delivered.

That's Your Idea Of A Recession? Keep Trying

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Some analysts mistakenly define a recession as two or more quarters of negative economic growth.

Slogging On The Economic Road Back To Normal

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The U.S. continues to be in a post-credit-crisis recovery, which means more de-leveraging is to come.

A Sober Economy Can Handle The Brexit Hit

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It isn't so much the shock that causes a recession, but rather the state of the economy when the shock occurs.

Culturally Constructed Ignorance Wins The Day

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In the aftermath of the Brexit vote, there is evidence that people didn’t fully understand what they were voting for.

Eight Things To Know About U.K. Vote To Leave EU

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It's disconcerting how easily ordinary folks can be confused by nonsense—and not just in the U.K.

I Don't Hate Gold. I Just Don't Love It.

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The reason I love to write about gold is because it offers so many lessons about investors' behavioral errors.

Lending To Poor People Didn't Cause The Financial Crisis

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This argument about the source of the financial crisis really should have been put to rest long ago.

Wall Street Tries Out Lots Of Shiny New Objects

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Here's a question for investors: Is Wall Street creating too many products?

Americans Not Racing To Get Out Of The U.S

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The number of people giving up their U.S. passports is up, but it's still a tiny percentage of all Americans.

How To Manage $2 Trillion If You're New At It

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Saudi Arabia is about to confront a serious challenge: Where and how to invest the money in a gigantic new sovereign wealth fund.

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