…nothing, after all, to stop Detroit’s long, sad decline. He goes on to cite Barry Ritholtz‘s forthcoming book, Bailout Nation: If Chrysler had collapsed, [Ritholtz] argues, vulture investors might have…

…Safe Are You? “If real estate cools dramatically, there goes half our economic growth,” says Barry Ritholtz, chief market strategist at Maxim Group. “There is danger of recession …” On…

…addition to Paul Krugman, here are two more commentators who have weighed in on the issue, making much the same points as I did. Barry Ritholtz: “[I]t’s not rare for…

A couple of days ago, James Bianco, chez Ritholtz, noted a WSJ article entitled “Dividend Stocks Become the Heroes”: This year, the 100 stocks in the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock…

…question of whether economics is a science. In order of how focused on the posts are on that particular question…. Barry Ritholtz is on fire with this post on Alan…

…Barry Ritholtz of the Maxim Group. (Thanks, Barry.) His point is that because the tax cuts gave preferential treatment to purchases of capital goods through the end of 2004, some…

Barry Ritholtz is talking about the Bull market coming to an end. It is no surprise to me. My equations of effective demand may finally be cracking the code of…

…no guarantee that wages will rise. There still seems to be more internal pressure within firms to push real wages down further, which would neutralize any gains from education. Barry…

Via Barry Rithotz at The Big Picture comes Bruce Bartlett’s take on : Bruce Bartlett and the dangers of Republican know-nothingism Bruce Bartlett goes off on some of the denialist…

…of Bowie’s oeuvre had provided a level of patronage that’s inconceivable for a musician of Bowie’s bent today…he spent the Nineties as a free agent, jumping from label to label,…