156 Quotes by Barry Ritholtz

He will be dealing with a combination of a slowing economy, inflation pressures and a tumultuous stock market.

He is a known entity that is well-respected on the academic side, in Washington and by the stock market.

Yearly data put the rest of the noise into perspective. Most of the weekly or monthly random up-and-down movements get smoothed out. Ultimately, this is where long-term investors should be focused.

We've been up for so long since May, two or three weeks of weakness is not a big deal. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw the doldrums of August lead to a nervous September, and that's how we create good buying opportunities.

The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.

We may see some of the capital expenditures spent this year were more or less pulled through from early 2005. All these tech purchases would have been done anyway but they've just been moved forward.

Owning a variety of asset classes means that some part of your portfolio will be doing well when the cyclical turmoil arises. A broadly diversified portfolio includes large capitalization stocks, small cap, emerging markets, fixed income, real estate and commodities.

Regardless of whether this upcoming release shows inflation today, given the supply shock to oil, we're expected to see inflation move higher in the next few months. It would certainly put a fork in the concept that the Fed has the opportunity to pause.

I credit Google for having the foresight to identify threats to its main business of selling advertising against search results. The potential loss of market share in the mobile space led them to the Android acquisition.