Tag: Barry Ritholtz
No one gets rich by shunning new cars and lattes
Managing your financial life requires following three rules:
No. 1. Spend less than you earn.
No. 2. Prioritize investing for your future.
No. 3. Figure out what...
Big gain in stock market not really so big
Major U.S. stock markets, depending on which index you prefer, are up anywhere from 21% to 33% this year. Those are big gains, making...
Why financial literacy is elusive
Graduation season will soon be upon us, and with it, so many admonitions explaining why students are unprepared for the challenges of the real...
Economy finally coming through for workers
Saying that higher wages were coming wasn’t an especially popular viewpoint as recently as 2016. It was a little less radical to suggest that...
Stop taxpayer subsidies for stadiums
Your tax dollars are being wasted, on an enormous scale, by uncompetitive socialist enterprises that ignore the basic rules of economics.
I refer, of course,...
How public pensions can start healing
Public pension funds need help. Rather than offer specific investment recommendations, I am going to make some suggestions to help them think about what...
How to avoid investing disaster
A basic rule of life is to avoid being a guinea pig in other people’s experiments. This is an inviolable rule of technology: consumers...
Holiday sales forecasts still stink
It’s that time of year when we all gather to give thanks for our blessings, overindulge in various foodstuffs and, of course, go shopping.
Shopmas...
No bull market for finance jobs
The subject of Wall Street employment came up via my colleague Josh Brown, who mused that this may be the first bull market when...
The downsizing of retail
Despite record highs in the markets, bad news about consumers has been relentless: malls are closing; consumers have accumulated too much debt; incomes are...
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