Barry Ritholtz
Barry Ritholtz
Barry Ritholtz is an American author, newspaper columnist, blogger, equities analyst, CIO of Ritholtz Wealth Management, and guest commentator on Bloomberg Television. He is also a former contributor to CNBC and TheStreet.com...
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CountryUnited States of America
simply strength
Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.
corporate gains global large profits
Gains in corporate profits depend in large part on accelerating global economic growth.
markets money network
Getting more and more of our news from the social network is having significant repercussions for markets - and your money.
correctly dependent future guessing happen
Have a well-thought financial plan that is not dependent upon correctly guessing what will happen in the future.
guessing happen history next people shows terrible
History shows us that people are terrible about guessing what is going to happen - next week, next month, and especially next year.
work
How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.
quite society time
I have been a member of the Microsoft-bashing society for quite some time.
length less passes time
If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes for financial news.
banks buy
If you think too-big-to-fail banks are not worthy of investment because of their impossible-to-read balance sheets, well then, don't buy them.
allowed competition excessive former lack regardless
In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.
business expect
In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
markets sync
Markets are frequently ahead of, and often out of sync with, the economy.
catch home major
Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
critical drives leads narrative seems
Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.