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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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Why Wall Street Isn't Freaking About Trump

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Tariffs, trade wars! So what? This is what he promised as a candidate.

What Helps Or Hurts Investment Returns? Here's A Ranking

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The key is knowing which ones are subject to human intervention.

Smart Beta Performance Isn't Worth The Cost

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The higher fees offset sporadically better returns.

Most Of Us Really Are Not Fabulously Rich

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The notion that government statistics vastly understate personal wealth is absurd.

Forget Millionaires. Listen To The Billionaires

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The richest offer life lessons about how they got where they are.

10 Books For A Summer Reading List

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A book about a mass murder that helped give rise to the FBI is among those on the list.

How Public Pensions Can Start Healing Themselves

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A series of questions and answers can help.

The Markets Don't Care About Your Wants Or Needs

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Thinking outside the box probably is a mistake.

There's A Right Way And A Wrong Way To Fail

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The options are to openly examine past mistakes and learn, or avoid a reckoning and repeat them.

A Hedge-Fund Fee Plan That Only Charges For Alpha

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The industry had been paid a fortune for underperformance. That’s changing.

Locals Fill Infrastructure Void Left By The Feds

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States and cities are improving rail lines, airports and electrical grids.

Taxi Cab Owners And Regulators Created Uber

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The number of cars for hire didn’t rise with demand. What would you expect?

Bond-Market Bears Are Showing Up Everywhere

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Many folks don’t believe the multi-decade run of lower interest rates has ended.

How To Avoid A Retirement Disaster

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Be aware and be realistic. But most of all, diversify.

Billionaire Bezos And The Warehouse Workers

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His net worth might be as much as 100 billion times that of many Amazon workers.

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