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. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes enthrall financial length
You, your employer and your plan's investment managers fail to follow even the most basic rules of investing. You overtrade, chase performance, do not think long term. All of you - All Of You - have done a horrible job managing your retirement plans. Barry Ritholtz basicchaseemployer share on social
Any Wall Street advertising that does not go into the boring details of methodology is most likely to be pushing past performance. Barry Ritholtz advertiseboredetail Change image and share on social
The way we finance homes in this country is slow, filled with middlemen, who run a nonstandardized evaluation process. This makes financing a home cumbersome and difficult. Barry Ritholtz countrycumbersomedifficult Change image and share on social
The leg system of the beach animals works because of a combination of certain lengths of tubes. Because of the proportion of lengths, the animals walk smoothly. You could say that this range of numbers is their genetic code. Theo Jansen animalbeachcode share on social
With the lessons taken from the financial crisis in 1997, the Republic of Korea has been able to surmount the global economic crisis rather successfully. Lee Myung-bak crisiseconomicfinancial Change image and share on social
I was raised on John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series. Something about this genre - hard-boiled-private-eye-with-heart-of-gold - never failed to take me away from whatever difficulties haunted my daily world to a wonderful land where I was no more than an enthralled spectator. Alan Furst boildailydifficulty share on social