Barry Ritholtz is an American author, newspaper columnist, blogger, equities analyst, CIO of Ritholtz Wealth Management, and guest commentator on

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. Ritholtz is the host of the Bloomberg Podcast '' Masters in Business'' in which he interviews influential figures on markets, investing and business. He is also a former contributor to

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and TheStreet.com. Ritholtz, along with Ritholtz Wealth Management peers Ben Carlson, Josh Brown, and Michael Batnick, runs a blog with insights on financial markets entitled ''The Big Picture''. Prior to founding Ritholtz Wealth Management, Ritholtz was CEO of Fusion IQ, prior to that chief market strategist at Maxim Group in New York, an investment bank.

Writing

Ritholtz is the author of ''Bailout Nation'', published in 2009. He also writes an investing column for ''

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'', and a blog, ''The Big Picture''. In 2010, Ritholtz was named one of the "15 Most Important Economic Journalists" by ''

The Daily Beast ''The Daily Beast'' is an American news website focused on politics, media, and pop culture. It was founded in 2008. It has been characterized as a "high-end tabloid" by Noah Shachtman, the site's editor-in-chief from 2018 to 2021. In a 20 ...

''. In 2009, he published his first book, ''Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy''.

Early life

Ritholtz graduated from Stony Brook University with a degree in Political Science and a minor in Philosophy . He was a member of the school's equestrian team, and competed in the 1981 National Championships of the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association. After graduation, Ritholtz studied at

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’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York, graduating cum laude in 1989 with a J.D. He passed the Bar exams in New York and New Jersey. He went on to practice law for a few years.Ritholtz's blog autobiography
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References

External links

The Big Picture (Ritholtz's blog)

Bloomberg View columns

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