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Aug. 1, 2018

What Are Your Thoughts: FANG Stocks and Football

What Are Your Thoughts: FANG Stocks and Football

*** SUBSCRIBE to our channel, we love our subs! *** Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown play their favorite game, "What Are Your Thoughts?" Today's topics: The Facebook meltdown HBO's 'Succession' Is it too soon to be excited about the NFL? Corporate profits - is this as good as it…

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July 26, 2018

The Biggest Stock Market Winners of Today and Tomorrow

The Biggest Stock Market Winners of Today and Tomorrow

SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL! We love our subs! Josh here - I asked my friend Joe Fahmy to come by and talk a little bit about his daily process. Joe manages separate accounts for investors and specializes in momentum stocks. We've been friends for almost ten years and we love…

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July 25, 2018

Can You Pick One Stock For The Next 25 Years?

Can You Pick One Stock For The Next 25 Years?

SUBSCRIBE to our channel! We love our subs! Okay, what if you had to pick one stock to hold for the next 25 years, could you select it today? Could you any confidence that it would work out? Or that the company would even still be around by the time…

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July 23, 2018

Can You Mix Bitcoin With Financial Advice?

Can You Mix Bitcoin With Financial Advice?

SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL! We love our subs! Lots of financial advisors are hesitant to even have the crypto currency conversation with their clients because the language is so foreign and the concept of profitless ventures is so far from their expertise in evaluating investment ideas. Some look at Bitcoin…

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July 20, 2018

Why do we even need money?

Why do we even need money?

Josh interviews friend of the firm behavioral expert Brian Portnoy about his new book The Geometry of Wealth, an investing book that's really about living a satisfying life. Brian's idea is that by tying our portfolio decisions more directly to the things that are important to us, we may just…

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July 19, 2018

The Chart Heard 'Round the World

The Chart Heard 'Round the World

Did Michael Batnick commit a chart crime this week? He did a tweet that absolutely exploded overnight, with lots of critics chiming in while simultaneously ADMITTING they didn't bother to read the text - just jumping to a conclusion because of the visual. Michael explains in the post linked below,…

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July 18, 2018

What Every Young Investor Needs to Know

What Every Young Investor Needs to Know

SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL! We love our subs! Josh asked the Ritholtz Wealth all stars for some tips for young investors who are first getting started. Bill Sweet and Josh Brown discuss: the magic of compounding the benefit of long time horizons taking risk the difference between simple IRAs and…

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July 17, 2018

What Are Your Thoughts: Trade War!

What Are Your Thoughts: Trade War!

SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL! We love our subs! Michael Batnick and Josh Brown cover the hottest topics of the moment... Is the Rock making too many films? What's going on with the stock market lately? Do you have to freak out about the yield curve? That weird time between basketball…

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June 18, 2018

Being a Younger Financial Advisor

Being a Younger Financial Advisor

*** SUBSCRIBE! We love our subs! *** This week, Alex Palumbo, a financial advisor at Ritholtz Wealth Management joins Josh Brown in the purple chairs to discuss the triumphs and challenges of being a young person in an old person's industry. The average age of a financial advisor in America…

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June 15, 2018

Nick Maggiulli joins Ritholtz Wealth as Analytics Manager!

Nick Maggiulli joins Ritholtz Wealth as Analytics Manager!

Ritholtz Wealth Management is pleased to welcome Nick Maggiulli to the firm as Analytics Manager! Nick's excellent blog, Of Dollars and Data has been blowing people away ever since he started writing a little more than a year ago. Nick's a data analytics professional who is joining the firm to…

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June 13, 2018

What Are Your Thoughts: Do You Feel Safe Now?

What Are Your Thoughts: Do You Feel Safe Now?

SUBSCRIBE! We love our subs, make sure you never miss an update! Michael Batnick and Josh Brown play their favorite game, What Are Your Thoughts? - guest starring economist and columnist Allison Schrager. Today’s topics: The first crypto-currency index fund launched by Coinbase... Atlantic City casinos - how isn’t this…

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June 11, 2018

Why Investors Stopped Caring About Alpha

Why Investors Stopped Caring About Alpha

SUBSCRIBE! We love our subs, make sure you never miss an episode! Michael Batnick and Josh Brown look at the curious case of Fidelity's famous Magellan Fund, which has had trouble attracting assets (or even hanging onto assets) despite the fact it's been outperforming the S&P 500 in recent years.…

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June 4, 2018

When it's time to spend money

When it's time to spend money

SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL! (we love our subs!) Kris Venne, our Director of Wealth Management, explains one of the biggest challenges for financial advisors right now - helping clients understand when it's time to start spending the money they've spent a lifetime accumulating. Read his post here: People Need Help…

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May 31, 2018

The Making of Michael's New Book, Big Mistakes!

The Making of Michael's New Book, Big Mistakes!

After a year and a half of work and countless hours of researching and writing, Michael Batnick's debut book has now arrived! All of us at Ritholtz Wealth Management are incredibly proud of him. You can get a copy here: https://amzn.to/2Jm1SBO Michael's book chronicles the biggest mistakes made by the…

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May 30, 2018

What Are Your Thoughts: Burner Accounts

What Are Your Thoughts: Burner Accounts

SUBSCRIBE! Michael Batnick and Joshua Brown tackle the following in today's What Are Your Thoughts... Kim Kardashian is going to the White House to discuss prison reform, obviously. Unconstrained Bond Funds, is now the time? Mortgage Rates - will anyone buy a new home ever again? LeBron James vs Michael…

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May 24, 2018

A Million Reasons to Hate Bonds

A Million Reasons to Hate Bonds

SUBSCRIBE! We love our subs! Michael Batnick explains to Josh Brown why bonds are not as bad as they sound right now, even though lots of people are out here steady hating. Read Mike's post on the topic here: http://theirrelevantinvestor.com/2018/05/22/do-investors-need-long-term-bonds/ New to investing? We can help! Try https://liftoffinvest.com/ now! Follow…

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May 22, 2018

No, Index Funds Aren't Distorting Markets

No, Index Funds Aren't Distorting Markets

SUBSCRIBE! We love our subs! Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown take on the myth that index funds are setting prices and the dollars coming into them are "pushing up valuations" for the top ten stocks. Read Michael's post for all the related charts: http://theirrelevantinvestor.com/2018/05/22/on-second-thought/ Jack Bogle's latest interview at…

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May 17, 2018

What Are Your Thoughts: Chart Crimes

What Are Your Thoughts: Chart Crimes

SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL! We love our subs! Michael Batnick and Josh Brown play What Are Your Thoughts? Joined by special guest Perth Tolle of the Life + Liberty Indexes. Goldman launches an Apple credit card The ten-year treasury hits 3% Westworld Season 2, WTF is going on? Risk parity…

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May 16, 2018

Barry's visit to Vanguard + learning how to fail in business

Barry's visit to Vanguard + learning how to fail in business

SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL! We love our subs! Josh Brown and Barry Ritholtz discuss a recent trip to Vanguard's corporate campus, and some stuff about how to fail in business for the right reasons. Also, how do you pronounce Jeff Bezos's last name? Tell us in the comments below. New…

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May 10, 2018

The investor tax deduction you will lose this year

The investor tax deduction you will lose this year

Bill Sweet joins Josh Brown to discuss the investor tax deduction that you just lost - and it takes effect this year. After tax investment results are the only results that matter. Wealth management without comprehensive tax planning is not enough. Learn more about Bill here: http://ritholtzwealth.com/team/bill-sweet-cfp/ New to investing?…

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May 9, 2018

The reality of stock market record highs

The reality of stock market record highs

Most of the time, the stocks spend their days away from the record highs, and that's perfectly normal - even during some of the great bull markets of all time. Josh Brown and Michael Batnick explain. PLUS - At what rate and for how long would you need to invest…

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May 4, 2018

Talking to your teen about the 200 day moving average

Talking to your teen about the 200 day moving average

LIVE FROM THE COMPOUND: The Dow Jones Industrial Average is now flirting with its 200 day moving average. Is this a reason to sell your stocks? Is this a reason to panic? Let's look at the data, with Michael Batnick and Josh Brown. New to investing? We can help! Try…

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May 3, 2018

Apple's doing a one hundred billion dollar stock buyback, u mad?

Apple's doing a one hundred billion dollar stock buyback, u mad?

LIVE FROM THE COMPOUND! Michael Batnick and Josh Brown explain the reason people seem to get upset about massive stock buybacks but have no problem with dividends - despite the fact that dividends trigger a tax liability for shareholders and buybacks do not. Check out Michael's post for more: http://theirrelevantinvestor.com/2018/05/02/9161/…

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April 26, 2018

There's no precision in investing

There's no precision in investing

Live from the Compound - SUBSCRIBE! Joshua Brown and Michael Batnick discuss the one of the hardest things to accept in the investment business - the fact that markets do not obey any laws of physics or science. Constructing a portfolio is not like planning a lunar flight or building…

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