Episodes
Jan. 5, 2021
A Short History of Chasing the Best Performing Fund
"Vanguard and iShares basically killed the star mutual fund manager in recent decades." - Ben Carlson For more visit: A Wealth of Common Sense For disclosure information please visit: https://ritholtzwealth.com/blog-disclosur...
Dec. 31, 2020
What if You Only Invested at Market Peaks?
"Regardless of which risky asset classes you have in your portfolio, as this post illustrates, buying near all-time highs should not be a cause for concern." - Nick Maggiulli For more visit: Of Dollars and Data For disclosure...
Dec. 30, 2020
How to Avoid Bear Markets
"There’s a very simple way to avoid bear markets. What you do is pull all of your money out of the stock market and just let it accumulate in your bank account." - Josh Brown For more visit: The Reformed Broker For disclosure...
Dec. 23, 2020
A Recovery Squandered
"The biggest issue: the failure of Congress to pass the broadest stimulus package in the depths of the GFC. Sure, they rescued the banks, but they hardly did very much for the rest of the economy." - Barry Ritholtz For more v...
Dec. 22, 2020
"Take All Your Common Stocks And Sell Them"
"Had you followed Fred Schwed’s maxim for dying rich, you’d have been out of stocks long ago. And yes, you’d have watched them grow and grow and grow again in value. " - Josh Brown For more visit: The Reformed Broker For disc...
Dec. 21, 2020
This Is Not The Way
"It feels like every day, I’m getting an email or a text from people outside the investing world asking me about speculative securities." - Michael Batnick For more visit: The Irrelevant Investor For disclosure information pl...
Dec. 20, 2020
Cape 2020 vs 1929
"One of the things that market analysts love to do is to compare recent market action with some prior historical era, and declare “The market today is just like ____.” Recall the 1987 parallels a few years ago or the more rec...
Dec. 19, 2020
How Are Normal People Supposed To Save For Retirement?
"Retirement investors needing the most help often get the least. Or worse!" - Tony Isola For more visit: A Teachable Moment For disclosure information please visit: https://ritholtzwealth.com/blog-disclosures/ Learn more abou...
Dec. 18, 2020
Asset Destruction
"For most of us who need life insurance, term life insurance will suffice. Term life insurance is cheap, easy to buy, and provides coverage for a set number of years. If you live past the term, you will no longer have life in...
Dec. 17, 2020
My 2020 Investing Lessons
"It’s counterintuitive that the best returns would come from investing when the economy is getting body-slammed but being uncomfortable when investing is typically a good sign." - Ben Carlson For more visit: A Wealth of Commo...
Dec. 16, 2020
Airbnb and DoorDash Showcase Best and Worst of Uber
"We have all heard “the next Uber” used to describe any hot company; each of this week’s hot IPOs — Airbnb and DoorDash — fit the description.: Both took a page from Uber when designing their own business models. One of them ...
Dec. 14, 2020
The Most Important Assumption
"Americans are living longer but not necessarily working longer. This means that retirement periods are longer. Retirees today must plan for their portfolio to sustain withdrawals for 20 or 30 years. " - Blair duQuesnay For m...