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- The Real Price of Life in Bailout Nation
- Author and popular blogger Barry Ritholtz blasts Uncle Sam's massive economic intervention and warns that the cure for recession could be worse than the disease. What is the most common misconception about the crisis? That this was a perfect storm of...
- Articles 2009-05-29
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- Barry Ritholtz's Great Question
- Jeff Miller submits: At "A Dash" we have often noted that The Big Picture highlights the question of the day. The prolific Barry Ritholtz points readers to many key topics. We sometimes disagree with the conclusions, but never the agenda. Regular readers note the differences in opinion, but that...
- External links 2008-08-19
- Ritholtz vs. McGraw Hill: The War of Words
- Paul Kedrosky submits: Publisher McGraw Hill MHP has dropped my friend Barry Ritholtz's much-touted book Bailout Nation, just weeks before its publication. The reason? Barry says McGraw Hill was uncomfortable at corporate levels with the Ritholtz-ian (i.e. direct, pungent, and unfiltered) criticisms he was directing toward McGraw Hill...
- External links 2009-02-11
- On Ritholtz on Stiglitz: U.S. Paying for Not Nationalizing Banks
- Mark Thoma submits: From Barry Ritholtz (Stiglitz: U.S. Paying for Not Nationalizing Banks): “We have this very strange situation today in America where we have given banks hundreds of billions of dollars and the president has to beg the banks to lend and they refuse....
- External links 2009-11-03
- What Exactly Are You Trading When You Trade the 'Recession Contract'?
- Barry Ritholtz submits: US Recession 2008 Chart via Intrade by Barry Ritholtz
- External links 2008-08-05
- Pending Home Sales Index Was Bad - Not Good (as Reported)
- Barry Ritholtz submits: There is a closer relationship between annual index changes from the same month a year earlier and year-ago changes in sales performance than with month-to-month comparisons. -Pending Home Sales Index by Barry Ritholtz
- External links 2008-08-07
- Is the Market Still a Future Indicator?
- Barry Ritholtz submits: At this point, you would have thought the Efficient Market Hypothesis would have died a quiet death. But as is its wont on Wall Street, myths, bad theories, and old information linger far longer than one would expect. Today's case in point: The WSJ...
- External links 2008-08-11
- The Secular Shift in Oil
- Barry Ritholtz submits: Back in July, I noted that we had exited many energy positions, and that I would like to see Oil pull back to $105-110 to re-enter them. This was a tactical, not secular, repositioning. by Barry Ritholtz
- External links 2008-08-12
- What's Wrong with the NAR Affordability Index?
- Barry Ritholtz submits: The monthly update to the NAR Housing Affordability Index gets released Thursday morning (August 14), as well as the Quarterly Housing Affordability Index for First-time Buyers. Some people seem to think this index is meaningful. Over the past month, I have received numerous emails...
- External links 2008-08-13
- Another Housing Bottom Call from Greenspan
- Barry Ritholtz submits: "If they are too big to fail, make them smaller," former Nixon Treasury Secretary George Shultz said. That quote was pulled from a long article about none other than former FOMC chair Alan Greenspan. And we agree with Sec'y Schultz -- and disagree with nearly...
- External links 2008-08-14
- Wall Street's Credit Problems Mean Big Tax Trouble Is Coming
- Barry Ritholtz submits: Here's something you may not have considered: The massive losses taken by Wall Street banks and brokers are going to wipe out their profit for the next few years. About $500 Billion in write downs have already occurred. Best estimates for the total that will get...
- External links 2008-08-18
- What is "Nonfeasance" ?
- Barry Ritholtz submits: "The system is completely broken. It's amazing that the system ever worked at all." - Marc L. Weinberg, Acting Executive Director and General Counsel, Appraisal Subcommittee> by Barry Ritholtz
- External links 2008-08-18
- IMF Economist: The Worst Is Yet To Come in the U.S.
- Barry Ritholtz submits: "The worst is yet to come in the U.S.'' -Kenneth Rogoff, former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund Unfortunately, I have to agree. We have yet to really feel any severe impact from the credit crunch in the broader economy, or in the markets. by...
- External links 2008-08-19
- Perilous Pursuit of Subprime Loans
- Barry Ritholtz submits: "In 2006 and early 2007, the industry, many analysts and market observers were generally not predicting a downturn in the housing and credit markets to the magnitude of what has since emerged, and outlooks for particular market segments at that time varied significantly." - Fannie Mae...
- External links 2008-08-20
- Why are Analysts' Forecasts Getting Worse? Reg FD.
- Barry Ritholtz submits: > "At the start of the year, profits at banks, brokers and insurance companies were projected to rise 22 percent in 2008, according to the average estimate of analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. They're now expected to...
- External links 2008-08-22
- Seasonality, Foreclosures Driving Existing-Home Sales
- Barry Ritholtz submits: Existing-home sales seasonally adjusted rose 3.1% to an annual rate of 5 million units in July, from a downwardly revised level of 4.85 million in June. These are 13.2% percent lower than the 5.76 million-unit pace in July 2007. The sales level was the...
- External links 2008-08-25
- Uh-Oh - Housing Index Falls Another 15.9%
- Barry Ritholtz submits: A belated post on yesterday's Case Shiller release: Through June 2008 the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices showed "continued broad based declines in the prices of existing single family homes across the United States, a trend that prevailed throughout 2007 and has continued through the...
- External links 2008-08-27
- Q2 GDP Is Mostly Inflation
- Barry Ritholtz submits: We noted earlier today that the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported revised Q2 GDP data at a better-than-expected annualized 3.3%. As discussed in the comments, the measure of Inflation is crucial to getting an accurate read on GDP or Durable Goods. Say you live in...
- External links 2008-08-28
- Political Futures Get It Wrong (Again)
- Barry Ritholtz submits: We all know that Intrade Political Futures got the Joe Biden pick right last week -- how well did it do with the GOP pick? As it turns out, not so good. THEY COMPLETELY MISSED THE VEEP PICK.Not just off by a little, but off...
- External links 2008-08-29
- How Does This 3% GDP Compare?
- Barry Ritholtz submits: Over the years, I have criticized a variety of official data points as misleading: Consumer Price Index [CPI] for woefully understating price increases, Non Farm Payrolls [NFP] due to the Birth/Death Adjustment, Core Inflation for omitting anything going up in price aka inflation ex inflation, The...
- External links 2008-09-04
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