Barry Ritholtz
Co-founder, chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management. Hosts the Masters in Business podcast for Bloomberg and wrote How NOT to Invest.
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Enforcing non-compete agreements on low-wage jobs is anti-competitive and artificially suppresses wages.
That is a very anti-competitive, anti-free-market way to keep wages artificially suppressed.
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Enforcing non-compete agreements on low-wage jobs is anti-competitive and artificially suppresses wages.Their words
That is a very anti-competitive, anti-free-market way to keep wages artificially suppressed.
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Building substantial wealth requires owning equity in a business rather than merely earning income from one.Their words
if you want to become part of the wealthy cohort, the top, let's call it 4% of Americans who are worth $5 million or more, sure, a nice income will help a little bit. But if you really want to get there, you need to own equity, not just earn from equity.
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So we will see. I think the early signals are that there's a place for both of these solutions, broadly defined.
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But I think people right now are, for instance, underestimating Nvidia's opportunity to innovate as well.
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And the ability to make higher margins and have the dominant market share is just so dramatic. And I think in technology, we've seen the power of that. The ability to sort of compound that lead is definitely there.
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Social media commentary tends to combine aggressive ignorance with performative opinion-sharing.
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We Misunderstand Where Wealth Comes From Said 27 Sept 2026
Enforcing non-compete agreements on low-wage jobs is anti-competitive and artificially suppresses wages.
That is a very anti-competitive, anti-free-market way to keep wages artificially suppressed.
How Non-Competes Damage the Labor Market Said 24 Sept 2026
Building substantial wealth requires owning equity in a business rather than merely earning income from one.
if you want to become part of the wealthy cohort, the top, let's call it 4% of Americans who are worth $5 million or more, sure, a nice income will help a little bit. But if you really want to get there, you need to own equity, not just earn from equity.
At The Money: Who Is Wealthy in America (and How Did They Get Rich?) Said 23 Sept 2026
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A dominant company's lead in market share compounds over time and becomes harder for competitors to close, especially in technology.
And the ability to make higher margins and have the dominant market share is just so dramatic. And I think in technology, we've seen the power of that. The ability to sort of compound that lead is definitely there.
Transcript: Glen Kacher, CIO of Light Street Capital Said 22 Sept 2026
Investors are underestimating Nvidia's ability to keep innovating and defend its dominant position as AI shifts toward inference.
But I think people right now are, for instance, underestimating Nvidia's opportunity to innovate as well.
Transcript: Glen Kacher, CIO of Light Street Capital Said 22 Sept 2026
Open-source and closed frontier AI models will both find lasting places in the market rather than one displacing the other.
So we will see. I think the early signals are that there's a place for both of these solutions, broadly defined.
Transcript: Glen Kacher, CIO of Light Street Capital Said 22 Sept 2026
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Read How to Get Rich in American History
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Read A Fabulous Debt: The Epic Story of How Bonds Built the Modern World
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Liked Hamilton: The Revolution
It reveals a depth to the show that makes it even stronger than previously believed.
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Liked Plays With Cars
He was game, and as part of my prep, I read this amusing short collection of his writings. They were fun and funny and informative — everything you could want in a collection about cars.
ritholtz.com 8 Jan 2021
Loved Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life
His tales of Coach Fitz, what leadership truly is, and how the world has changed makes for a wonderful read. Oh, and its Michael Lewis.
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Loved Open: An Autobiography
It is rare that a sports book captures my attention, rarer still when a sports autobiography does. But “Open” delivers a compelling life story superbly told by an athlete. Desire, motivation, and competitive drive him to the the highest levels of professional tennis, but he loses his interest, and was so often unhappy, confused and unfulfilled by his achievements. As an autobiography, it is bluntly honest, sometimes painful, but most of all a fascinating compelling read.
ritholtz.com 8 Jan 2021
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This was my holiday gift this year to a few friends who I know love to cook.
ritholtz.com 8 Jan 2021
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Liked Loonshots
Loonshots identifies the small shifts in structure that control transitions between states in organizations. Don’t let that description put you off of it, its quite fascinating.
ritholtz.com 8 Jan 2021
Loved At Home: A Short History of Private Life
An utterly fascinating joyride, every page filled with delightful details.
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Loved The Psychology of Money
It is everything you would expect from Housel: Interesting, informative, filled with investing lessons, but without the typical scolding.
ritholtz.com 8 Jan 2021
Liked Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism
Americana traces the history of American-style Capitalism, reminding us the political economy is far more complex than the simple labels we tend to use. Reality is far messier, filled with externalities, complications and comprises then is predicted by academic theories.
ritholtz.com 8 Jan 2021
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Loved How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
These were the best books I read in 2020 (including who recommended each). Every one was a pleasure. Enjoy!
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Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid: A masterwork from 1979 that focuses on how cognition can emerge via a variety of hidden neurological mechanisms. I always regretted blazing through GEB in college for a class. This is the summer when I finally get to reread it slowly and carefully.
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Rory Sutherland, Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life: Rory Sutherland is the Vice Chairman of advertising giant Ogilvy; he describes his “attractively vague job title” as allowing him the freedom to create a behavioral science practice within the ad agency. This looks intriguing.
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Recommends The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World
Charles C. Mann, The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World: When it comes to climate change, there are many possible futures. At one end, things get irreversibly worse; at the opposite end, technology “solves” climate change just like any engineering problem. This book looks at that intellectual clash between environmentalists on the one side and the techno-optimists on the other by telling the history of two little-known twentieth-century scientists.
ritholtz.com 28 May 2019
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Recommends Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle, Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell: I understood Bill Campbell was a behind-the-scenes guy in Silicon Valley, but I had no idea just how influential he was. Bill Gurley of Benchmark noted “I would argue that Bill has had a bigger impact on Silicon Valley than any other single person simply because his reach was so amazingly wide.” That’s a story I want to read.
ritholtz.com 28 May 2019
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Recommends Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
Bradley Hope and Tom Wright, Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World: Is financial fraud becoming its own sub-genre? This reporting into yet another fraud reminds me of The Spider Network or Bad Blood. What distinguishes this one is the size: it involved billions of dollars.
ritholtz.com 28 May 2019
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Recommends The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Peter Frankopan, The Silk Roads: A New History of the World: The trade routes which connected the East and the West also led to the spread of ideas, cultures and religions. In the midst of our budding trade war, perhaps some history on trade between China and the world might shed some light on current affairs.
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Alan B. Krueger, Rockonomics: A Backstage Tour of What the Music Industry Can Teach Us about Economics and Life: From the economist who revealed the secrets of the minimum wage comes this look at the economics of the music industry. Its disruptions by technology to economics of songwriting and concert tours, the music industry offers important financial lessons. Kreuger, an economic rock star himself (he was former chairman of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers) left us far too soon.
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Recommends The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
David McCullough, The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West: Ever since I read The Wright Brothers” (on an earlier summer reading list of ours — and it was fantastic) I have been a fan of the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough writes about. This tale of how the American Northwest Territory was settled looks intriguing.
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Recommends Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
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Recommends The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning
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- The Long History of Underreporting Inflation 19 Oct 2026 It’s infuriating with each inflation print: Some economist or strategist waves off the hot headline number, advising you to focus on the core. The most recent bout of innumeracy has been going on for four years, but it…
- 10 Monday AM Reads 19 Oct 2026 My back-to-work morning reads: • Wall Street Is Unusually Optimistic About Third-Quarter Earnings. Here’s Why in 5 Charts. The S&P 500 is expected to post 29% third-quarter earnings growth, the third straight quarter ab…
- 10 Sunday Reads 18 Oct 2026 Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetence, corruption, and policy failures: • TheDirtySecretBehindtheFarmedFishYouEat. Our appetite for seafood is growing. In the last 60 years, the global consumption of f…
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- MiB: Bob Michele, CIO and Head of Global Fixed Income, Currency & Commodities, J.P. Morgan Asset Management 17 Oct 2026 This week, I speak with Bob Michele, Chief Investment Officer and Head of Global Fixed Income, Currency, and Commodities at J.P.Morgan Asset Management. He started at Bankers Trust after studying classics and natural sc…
- 10 Weekend Reads 17 Oct 2026 The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Danish Blend coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • America Didn’t Lose Its Rare Earth Industry. It Sold It.: Markets price for cost.…
- Top? Beware Your Confirmation Bias 16 Oct 2026 “Are we in the 6th, 8th, or 9th inning? I don’t know, but I suspect the beginning of this bull is further away than the end.” –Me, 5 days ago I always hate the after-the-fact explanations of why the market is doing anyt…
- 10 Friday AM Reads 16 Oct 2026 My end-of-week morning reads: • Power Bill Divide: Soaring prices at some of America’s Biggest Utilities are fueling new scrutiny of the investor-owned model. (Bloomberg) • What the Midterms Mean for Your Stock Portfoli…
- No, Rising Bond Yields Did Not Trigger the GFC 15 Oct 2026 The first few times I saw mention of the GFC being caused by rising bond yields, I let it go. I assumed it was hyperbole or an inartfully phrased line. But this week, I read the following sentence: “That, after all, is…
- 10 Thursday AM Reads 15 Oct 2026 My morning reads: • The Nobel Prize Message for Kevin Warsh: “Clear and credible communication about how [central banks] reason and what they plan to do has become vital to their operations,” the Nobel committee said. (…
- At The Money: Is Technology Price Gouging Consumers? 14 Oct 2026 (October 14, 2026) Lots of forces are driving prices higher. But what about Artificial Intelligence, Algos, Surveillance Capitalism, and other technologies we all use every day? Might they be sending prices higher? Full…
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- 5 Steps to Take Right Now I have no idea when the bull market that began in March 2013 will end. Market volatility is rising; gains are narrowing; bonds are selling off; domestic politics are bad, and geopolitics are worse. Secular bull runs typically last 10 to 20 years; 1982 to 2000 was the prior major bull run. But two significant wild cards complicate matters: First, the massive fiscal stimulus during the pandemic – the single largest fiscal spend as a percentage of GDP since World War Two – might have reset the clock. Second, the overall impact of artificial intelligence. Not just the ma… 14 Oct 2026
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- At the Money: The Data Behind America's Wealthy 30 Sept 2026
- Investing In The Great Wealth Transfer: Masters in Business with Adam Frank 25 Sept 2026
- At The Money: Who Is Wealthy in America, and How Did They Get Rich? 23 Sept 2026
- Investing for the AI Boom: Masters in Business with Glen Kacher 18 Sept 2026
- At The Money: Should You Invest in Companies Led by Founders? 16 Sept 2026
- Finding Stability in Investing: Masters in Business with Seth Bernstein 11 Sept 2026
- At The Money: Considering a Career Change? How About FINFLUENCER? 9 Sept 2026
- Introducing: Bloomberg Money 7 Sept 2026
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- Learning from Buffett and Munger: Masters in Business with Alex Morris 21 Aug 2026
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