You start at the end and you work your way back. 1 I first learned this from Sam Perlmutter, my one and only legal boss. Sam started off at a defense firm, but it could not contain his personality, so then he went independent. He was a renegade, with his own vision. And he wasn’t […]

I’m sure they made the participants feel good, but they didn’t move the needle an iota. This is what happens when old school people employ old school methods and expect the same result they got fifty or sixty years ago. The reason the anti-Vietnam protests had an impact, to the degree they even did, was […]

Barry Ritholtz is Chairman and CIO of Ritholtz Wealth Management, which has over $5 billion under its umbrella. Ritholtz also hosts the Bloomberg podcast “Masters in Business,” as well as appearing on Bloomberg, CNBC and Fox Business on a regular basis. Barry has a new book, “How Not to Invest: The Ideas, Numbers and Behavior […]

Let me be a Republican here… WHY DO I HAVE TO PAY? I’m a law-abiding citizen, I pay my bills and my taxes, why should I support exactly who by paying more for my goods? Yes, that’s the Republican ethos. Screw the takers. I earn my salary, I should pay few taxes and the government […]