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Barry Ritholtz

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ARTICLES BY BARRY RITHOLTZ

Invest for the long term, be diversified, watch your costs and let compounding work its magic.

Ten simple money rules for investing success

5 min read . 05 Jul 2021

The stock-market recovery makes a lot of sense

1 min read . 27 Jun 2020

Winding up with $1 million isn’t too hard

2 min read . 31 Jul 2018

Having a healthy outlook on failure would benefit corporations, governments—just about everyone. Photo: iStockphoto

There’s a right way and a wrong way to fail

4 min read . 17 May 2018

For the past 10 years, labour organizers have been advocating for a national minimum wage of $15 an hour. Photo: iStockphoto

Bigger raises might be seen in the US in 2018

4 min read . 10 Jan 2018

Richard Thaler’s Nobel win is long overdue. Photo: Reuters (Reuters)

An economics heathen wins the economics Nobel

2 min read . 09 Oct 2017

A decade ago, Warren Buffett endorsed inexpensive passive-index investing over expensive and active hedge-fund management. Photo: Bloomberg

Bet with Warren Buffett, not against him

4 min read . 24 Sep 2017

The imaginary American debt crisis is here to stay

2 min read . 21 Aug 2017

US President Donald Trump. Emerging markets are doing better than the US as the dollar weakens, and Europe’s corporate earnings are strengthening. Photo: Bloomberg

Trump rally: Investors in US markets are fooling themselves

4 min read . 25 Jul 2017

Creative destruction caused by technology is so rampant that it is a cliché. Photo: AFP

The world is about to change even faster

4 min read . 10 Jul 2017

Arguing whether QE worked

3 min read . 19 Aug 2016

On top of admonitions that recoveries from credit crises were different from other recoveries, they drew on historical data to suggest that housing prices can drop by a third and stock markets could get cut in half. Photo: Bloomberg

The economic road back to normal

3 min read . 13 Jul 2016

The highly uneven distribution of equity ownership in the US strongly suggests that most Americans are unaffected personally in a significant way by rising equity prices. Photo: AFP

The poverty of the wealth effect

2 min read . 27 Apr 2016

Why are investors so often surprised? There are many reasons that help explain unfolding events in ways that are rather curiously described as ‘unexpected.’ Photo: Bloomberg

Why investors are surprised by surprises

3 min read . 18 Jan 2016

Photo: Getty Images

Black Monday looked like 1929 again

3 min read . 20 Oct 2015

Apple has captured attention due in part to its record of creating new markets or overturning those of so many different industries. Photo: Reuters

As Apple goes, so goes the market?

3 min read . 18 Aug 2015

The spasms of technology silliness surrounding the iPhone 6 bending are just the latest in a never-ending stream going back to the IBM 5100 portable computer. You should learn to watch all such foolishness with detached bemusement. Photo: Reuters

Don’t be a tech sucker and avoid early adoption

3 min read . 30 Sep 2014

Regardless, this morbid fascination of suicides within the community of financial professionals may be nothing more than random fluctuations in data. We won’t know until someone actually studies the data. Photo: AFP

Why are traders (literally) killing themselves?

2 min read . 14 Mar 2014

The next warning signal is the divergences between the advance/decline line and the broader markets. Photo: AFP

How to tell when the bull market is turning bear

3 min read . 13 Mar 2014

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