The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.
BARRY RITHOLTZRather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to own them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.
More Barry Ritholtz Quotes
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Returnless risk is not how you prepare for a decent retirement.
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And any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.
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Excessive regulation in the banking reform bill will destroy a substantial part of our bond-distributing machinery.
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Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple.
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Salesmen always need something to sell.
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If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.
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Can anyone expect that a step of this kind will improve the quality of our long-term investments?’
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This is nothing like the 1970’s, which was a pretty dismal period and not just because of polyester and disco.
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It is important for investors to understand what they do and don’t know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future.
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For those of you who may be unaware, [Michael] Boskin is the economist/weasel/fraud who helped to officially distort the CPI, making it more or less worthless as a measure of inflation.
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Keynes vs Hayek? Friedman vs Krugman? Those are the wrong intellectual debates. Its you vs. Tony Hayward, BP CEO, You vs. Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs CEO. And you are losing…
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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up seven is still a function of random luck.
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Unlike cheap stocks, inexpensive asset classes have a lower chance of big drawdowns (broad asset classes don’t go to zero) and a higher probability of average or better returns.
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The Boskin Commission… was an act of cowardice. Rather than man up and say fix this, its broken, we can’t afford it.
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Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to own them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.
BARRY RITHOLTZ