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Barry Ritholtz
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Shopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend another minute with on Thanksgiving Day to go buy them gifts is how some Americans show their affection for one another. Weird.
Barry Ritholtz
Buy
Day
Thanksgiving
You
Affection
Spend
Gifts
Minute
Some
Weird
Another
How
Go
Families
Escaping
Begins
American
Cannot
Them
Stand
Show
Apparently
Now
Little white lies are told by humans all the time. Indeed, lying is often how we get through each day in a happy little bubble. We spend time and energy rationalizing our own behaviors, beliefs and decision-making processes.
Barry Ritholtz
Time
Day
Happy
Own
Energy
White
Lying
Our
Spend
Indeed
Lies
Through
Bubble
How
Get
Behaviors
Often
Processes
Decision-Making
Little
White Lies
Each
Each Day
Beliefs
Humans
The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of America, the rise of the homeowner, the build-out of the interstate highway system, and the rise of automobile culture. Credit availability expanded dramatically.
Barry Ritholtz
Culture
Revolution
Interstate
Software
Dramatically
Saw
System
Rapidly
Seeds
Rise
Postwar
Highway
Period
Also
Industry
Were
Semiconductor
America
Automobile
Availability
Planted
Electronics
Credit
The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.
Barry Ritholtz
You
Free
Beauty
Lunch
About
Diversification
Free Lunch
Investing
Close
Get
A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
Barry Ritholtz
Employees
Edge
Enormous
Recruiting
Retaining
Plan
Competitive
The consumption and production of energy is a major component of the global economy.
Barry Ritholtz
Energy
Component
Consumption
Major
Economy
Global
Global Economy
Production
Have a well-thought financial plan that is not dependent upon correctly guessing what will happen in the future.
Barry Ritholtz
Future
Financial
Will
Guessing
Correctly
Dependent
Happen
Plan
With Twitter, you can build your own virtual trading floor and research department, populated by the smartest people on earth. Almost any subject or sector has you can think of, you can find a few people with an expertise in that area.
Barry Ritholtz
You
People
Build
Few
Own
Research
Think
Twitter
Virtual
Earth
Sector
Find
Area
Almost
Smartest
Trading
Subject
Department
Few People
Any
Expertise
Your
Floor
If you think too-big-to-fail banks are not worthy of investment because of their impossible-to-read balance sheets, well then, don't buy them.
Barry Ritholtz
Buy
You
Balance
Think
Worthy
Investment
Balance Sheets
Well
Because
Sheets
Banks
Them
Then
How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.
Barry Ritholtz
Work
City
Rather
How
Where
Manhattan
Your
Awful
In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.
Barry Ritholtz
Service
Competition
Extract
Charges
Excessive
Allowed
New
Real
York
Lack
New York
Regardless
Former
Poor
No one knows what the top-performing asset class will be next year. Lacking this prescience, your next-best solution is to own all of the classes and rebalance regularly.
Barry Ritholtz
Class
Will
Year
Own
Solution
Classes
No-One
Knows
Lacking
Next
Your
Regularly
Next Year
Asset
When it comes to investing, there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all portfolio.
Barry Ritholtz
One-Size-Fits-All
Investing
Portfolio
Thing
Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped fashion my views.
Barry Ritholtz
Time
Fashion
You
Writing
Perspective
Research
Once
About
Develop
Idea
Real
Begin
Often
Real Time
Anything
Public
Views
Helped
Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.
Barry Ritholtz
Longer
Lean
Make
Tight
Article
Anyone
Skill
Keeping
A number of bloggers in economics and the financial sector have risen to prominence through the sheer strength of their work. Note it was not their family connections nor ties to Ivy League schools or elite banks, but rather the strength of their research, analysis and writing.
Barry Ritholtz
Work
Strength
Family
Writing
Financial
Economics
Research
Analysis
Sector
Prominence
Risen
Rather
Through
League
Schools
Ties
Sheer
Bloggers
Nor
Ivy
Ivy League
Banks
Note
Connections
Elite
Number
Content is king. When you are asking people to read you several times a day, you better have some fine content.
Barry Ritholtz
Day
You
People
Better
King
Several
Fine
Some
Read
Content
Times
Asking
Any time you speak to people about their posture, you learn about their most recent investment activity. When someone just bought stocks, they tend to be bullish; someone who just sold is bearish.
Barry Ritholtz
Time
You
People
Speak
Sold
About
Someone
Posture
Tend
Investment
Bought
Most
Learn
Bullish
Stocks
Any
Just
Who
Activity
Recent
TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an urgency for even the most minor of economic data points.
Barry Ritholtz
TV
Willing
Minor
Gin
Data
Ratings
Economic
Points
Most
Up
Get
Artificial
Want
Anything
Conflicts
Them
Urgency
Create
Producers
Even
Nearly
Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.
Barry Ritholtz
Strength
Better
Tools
Simply
Forecasting
Narrative
Storytelling
Much
Species
Gains in corporate profits depend in large part on accelerating global economic growth.
Barry Ritholtz
Depend
Corporate
Economic
Economic Growth
Part
Global
Accelerate
Gains
Large
Large Part
Growth
Profits
Investing is about making probabilistic decisions with limited information about an unknowable future. The variables are well known, as are the possible outcomes.
Barry Ritholtz
Future
Unknowable
Possible
Outcomes
About
Variables
Investing
Well
Well Known
Known
Limited
Making
Information
Decisions
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
You
Job
Long
Think
Rules
Follow
Horrible
Chase
Investing
Investment
Fail
Retirement
Performance
Long-Term
Term
Most
Employer
Managers
Done
Managing
Plan
Your
Plans
Even
Basic
Often, investors will discover a manager after he's had a terrific run, usually when he lands on a magazine cover somewhere. Invariably, funds swell up with new investor money just before they revert to their long-term averages.
Barry Ritholtz
Money
Will
Somewhere
Before
Run
Magazine
Magazine Cover
Invariably
Had
He
Investor
Investors
Long-Term
New
Terrific
Cover
Discover
Revert
Up
Manager
Often
Just
After
Lands
Swell
Funds
Indeed, eventually, random outcomes all revert to the mean, meaning that streaks eventually end. Understanding this is a key part of intelligent and rational investing.
Barry Ritholtz
Key
Random
Understanding
Indeed
Outcomes
Rational
Investing
Part
Revert
End
Intelligent
Mean
Meaning
Eventually
Any investment bought via credit always runs the risk of margin calls and, eventually, liquidation.
Barry Ritholtz
Runs
Risk
Investment
Bought
Calls
Always
Liquidation
Via
Any
Eventually
Credit
Margin
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