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10 Biggest Ideas in “How NOT to Invest”

Barry Ritholtz

The challenge in writing How NOT to Invest was organizing a large number of ideas, many of which were only loosely connected, into something coherent, understandable, and, most importantly, readable. That insight greatly simplified my task of making the book both fun to read and helpful for anyone interested in investing.

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Avoid the Unforced Investment Errors Even Billionaires Make

Barry Ritholtz

In How Not to Invest , I showcase extreme examples of unforced errors to illustrate these behavioral mistakes. Chris Bloomstran, chief investment officer of Semper Augustus Investments Group, has tracked this. Decades as an investor and trader on Wall Street have taught me that panics come and go.

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Dollars Are For Spending & Investing, Not Saving

Barry Ritholtz

“I need the US Dollar to be a store of value between the time I make it until I spend it, invest it, pay my taxes with it, or give it away. To be more precise, I want to discuss the type of chart that reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of money, currency, spending, investing, and taxes. It does that splendidly.”

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Government Spending Is Out of Control! LOL

Barry Ritholtz

investment firm. ” It goes without saying that politics should have no place in any reputable firm’s Research department (see Why Politics and Investing do not mix ). Gross investment includes what government spends on structures, equipment, and software, such as new highways, schools, and computers.

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MiB: Peter Borish, Tudor Investments & Robin Hood

Barry Ritholtz

This week, we speak with Peter Borish, who is chairman and chief executive officer of Computer Trading Corporation, an investment and advisory firm. Borish was founding partner and right-hand man to Paul Tudor Jones at Tudor Investment Corporation , where he was director of research for 10 years.

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Q&A: Your Money Map

Barry Ritholtz

I chatted with Jean Chatzky of Your Money Map about HNTI and some general investing concepts. Many, if not most, investing books aim to teach people how TO invest. Your focus is giving readers advice on how NOT to invest. The book is broken down into four categories of things not to do when youre investing.

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DeepSeek crashes the AI Party: Story Break, Change or Shift?

Musings on Markets

The investments in that AI architecture were being made, with the expectation that companies that invested in the architecture would be able to eventually profit from developing and selling AI products and services. This story leaves me with a judgment call to make about the relative sizes of the markets for the two pathways.

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