Author: Barry Ritholtz

August 10, 2024 6:30am by Barry Ritholtz The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of  coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • The End of Spam: Robocalls and texts… your days are numbered: The industry blasting your phone with spam calls and

This week, we speak with Meir Statman, the Glenn Klimek Professor of Finance at Santa Clara University. Named one of the 25 most influential people by Investment Advisor, his breakthrough book, “What Investors Really Want,” changed how we view investor motivations. Statman is a member of the advisory board of the

At The Money: Humans Are Not Built For Investing (August 7, 2024) Of all the many things Humans do brilliantly well, investing isn’t one of them. As a group, we are easily excited, focused on the wrong things, and filled with unjustified overconfidence. Full transcript below. ~~~ About this week’s

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Lakshman Achuthan, ECRI

August 4, 2024 6:55am by Barry Ritholtz Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • Our data isn’t safe. Resist giving it up whenever you can. Retailers and rewards programs don’t actually need to scan a copy of your driver’s license, so don’t let them. Face

The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of  coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • Silicon Valley’s Trillion-Dollar Leap of Faith: Tech companies are spending as if AI’s transformative uses are a foregone conclusion. They’re not. (The Atlantic) see also Sequoia Capital invested

This week, we speak with Lakshman Achuthan, co-founder of the Economic Cycle Research Institute. Achuthan met his mentor, Geoffrey H. Moore, at Columbia University in 1990; they formed ECRI with Anirvan Banerji in 1996. He serves on the board of governors for the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. In 2004,

Once again, popping out of book duty for a quick few notes to share. The combination of the market action in July and yesterday’s presser made me look at several datapoints that I find fascinating.  I want to share these five ideas that I believe are of much greater significance

At the Money: The Right And Wrong Way to Invest, with Dave Nadig, Vetta Fi (Oct 25, 2023) Investing can be complicated. But what if there was a simple solution? On this episode of ‘At the Money,’ I speak with Dave Nadig about investing as a problem that has been

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Natalie Wolfson, Orion CEO, is below. You can stream and download our full conversation, including any podcast extras, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and Bloomberg. All of our earlier podcasts on your favorite pod hosts can be found here. ~~~ 00:00:08 [Speaker Changed] This is