Barry Ritholtz Quotes

The Boskin Commission… was an act of cowardice. Rather than man up and say fix this, its broken, we can’t afford it.
BARRY RITHOLTZ

Afford Boskin Broken Cowardice Man
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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Important Next Possibly Year
Can anyone expect that a step of this kind will improve the quality of our long-term investments?’
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Anyone Improve Investment Kind Quality Step
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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Country Debate Intellectual Losing People Person
This ugly duckling investment will likely need time – quarters, or even years – to blossom into a beautiful swan.
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Beautiful Duckling Swans Ugly
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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Broken Distort Economist May Men
Returnless risk is not how you prepare for a decent retirement.
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Decent Prepare Retirement Risk
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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Average Class Drawdown Zero
I find it funny that people who didn’t think there was any inflation in the pipeline are now talking about stagflation.
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People Stagflation Talking Thinking
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.
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Errors Happened Investor Luck Mistake Prefer
The market is going to love it. The market always seems to applaud major mergers, even though the vast majority of them don’t work out and don’t increase shareholder value.
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Majority Mergers Out Work
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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Accountability Dumb Hold Myself Prediction Trash
One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.
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Accountability Financial Nonsense
History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies.
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Example Firm Technology
Salesmen always need something to sell.
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Need Salesman Sell Something
And any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.
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Doomed Forecast Forecasting Investment Plan
Excessive regulation in the banking reform bill will destroy a substantial part of our bond-distributing machinery.
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Long Political Quality
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.
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Charming Intelligent News Use Work
Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple.
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Forget Marketing never Simple
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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Blow Function Luck Random
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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Nothing Period Polyester Prett

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