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<title><![CDATA[Barry Ritholtz - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/20946.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Barry Ritholtz]]></description><category domain="20946">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Economy Is Finally Coming Through for U.S. Workers]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-07/u-s-economy-workers-finally-are-getting-bigger-pay-increases?srnd=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Barry Ritholtz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Decent wage gains are showing up in paychecks. That should continue for a while.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[10 Things We Still Get Wrong About the Financial Crisis]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-09-14/ten-misconceptions-about-financial-crisis-on-10-year-anniversary?srnd=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barry Ritholtz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[All are the result of bias, ignorance, laziness or bad faith.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What's Really Wrong With Facebook and How to Fix It]]></title>
							<link>http://ritholtz.com/2018/07/self-inflicted-wounds-drag-facebook/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barry Ritholtz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Facebook Inc. has a fake news problem. Its founder and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg doesn&rsquo;t seem to understand that.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Tax Cuts Are a Large &amp; Potent Economic Stimulus]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-29/why-markets-love-trump-s-tax-cuts</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Barry Ritholtz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Put aside partisan feelings and recognize that the economy is getting a major stimulus.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Woe to Those Disrupted by Amazon]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-12-21/woe-to-those-disrupted-by-amazon</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Barry Ritholtz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The company spots and exploits market inefficiencies that provide profits for other businesses.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[CEOs Are Paid Fortunes Just to Be Average]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-07-25/ceos-are-paid-fortunes-just-to-be-average</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barry Ritholtz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Verizon&rsquo;s purchase of Yahoo! for $4.83 billion, while an interesting exercise in combining content, networks and mobile services, highlights the broken norms for paying executives of U.S. corporations. The short version is that issuing and repricing of stock options compensates...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Are So Many Traders Killing Themselves?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-03-13/why-are-so-many-traders-literally-killing-themselves</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barry Ritholtz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This column is not about working too hard, or the dangers of high cholesterol, or lack of exercise. It is about a rash of suicides within the financial community. What this actually means is less certain than the reporting on it might imply.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The U.S. Banking Sector Is Not Healthy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/08/big-banks-under-capitalized-overexposed-opaque/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barry Ritholtz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The US banking sector is not healthy.There is a fundamental misunderstanding about the Wall Street bailouts amongst the public, and quite a few policy makers at Treasury and the Federal Reserve: Somehow, they &ldquo;fixed&rdquo; the banking system. All it took was few trillion dollars in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mind the Trend: This Is a Secular Bear]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/smacked-by-big-market-swings-investors-should-alter-their-outlook/2011/08/18/gIQAriG8RJ_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barry Ritholtz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With these whopping 4 percent swings &mdash; up 500 points, down 500 points, up another 500 points, down another 500 points &mdash; traders have whiplash. We saw another huge move down Thursday, when the Dow, Nasdaq and S&amp;P all lost big, plummeting 3.68 percent, 5.22 percent and 4.46...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Second Leg Down in Housing Is Upon Us]]></title>
							<link>http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/06/2nd-leg-down-in-housing/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barry Ritholtz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Our story so far: Following the 2,000 Dot Com crash, then Fed Chair Alan Greenspan brought Fed Funds rates down to ultra-low levels. Under 2% for 3 years, and 1% for more than a year.Rates this low &#8212; and for that long &#8212; were simply unprecedented. They wreaked havoc with the...]]></description>
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