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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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Some Rules For Coping With Stock-Market Panic

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No. 1 is pretty straightforward, if not so easy to follow: Don’t panic.

Stock-Market Bubble Fears Are Greatly Overblown

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Despite some pockets of excess, valuations today are nothing like those of the dot-com era.

Why So Many Tech Startups Misbehave

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Some tech businesses are responding to market signals the wrong way, writes Barry Ritholtz.

Yield-Curve Inversion Is Sending A Message

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The question is whether it’s saying anything meaningful about the odds of recession.

Worthless Holiday Shopping Hype Never Dies

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The National Retail Federation presents as fact information that’s nothing more than guesswork.

Hedge Funds And Private Equity Need Full Disclosure

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These pools of investment capital don't have to provide much in the way of transparency.

How Jim Simons Built The Best Hedge Fund Ever

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The former code breaker and math professor figured out how to do one thing very well in markets.

Rorschach-Test Economy Lets You See What You Want

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The expansion and bull market are aging and the data no longer point in just one direction.

Ivy League Endowments Make The Same Old Mistakes

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Hedge funds and natural resources underperformed. New investments in private equity look no better.

Passive Investing Hasn’t Taken Over The World

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Ignore the hype. Actively managed money dwarfs the assets in low-cost index funds.

SoftBank's Venture Capital Riches Swamp The Market

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It's not just the quantity of money that’s the issue, it's the concentration of all that capital.

Stakeholder Capitalism Will Fail If It's Just Talk

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Companies will have to prove they’re committed to goals beyond maximizing shareholder value.

The #TrumpRecession Label Is Going To Stick

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Presidents usually get too much blame for economic slowdowns. This time is different.

The Bond Raters Still Need To Be Fixed

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The reforms adopted after the financial crisis didn’t resolve the industry’s inherent conflicts.

Winner-Take-All Phenomenon Rules The Stock Market, Too

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Any gains are attributable to a relative handful of companies.

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