Barry Ritholtz

Barry Ritholtz is the Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management, a financial planning and asset management firm, with over $175 million in assets. He writes a daily column for Bloomberg View and a twice-monthly column on Personal Finance and Investing for The [Washington Post](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/washington-post). Barry Ritholtz was also the author of the popular “Apprenticed Investor” columns at [TheStreet.com](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/the-new-york-times-thestreet-com). He is a frequent commentator on economics and financial markets, and has appeared as a regular guest in most major media outlets. In 2009, Barry Ritholtz wrote the book Bailout Nation, which was published by Wiley. Bailout Nation was named as the “Investment Book of the Year” by Stock Trader’s Almanac, and received a First Amendment Award for Outstanding Journalism: Best Book. In the summer of 2014, Barry Ritholtz began hosting a new series on Bloomberg Radio, called Masters in Business, an hour long deep dive in to the lives of people who drive markets and ventures. He also authors “[The Big Picture](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/the-big-picture)”, a leading financial weblog that generates several million page views per month. The aforementioned weblog covers everything from Investing and Trading to Macro Economics. Barry Ritholtz is on the Board of Advisors of [Riskalyze](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/riskalyze), which creates quantitative measurements of client risk tolerances and he is also an investor in [StockTwits](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stocktwits), a [Twitter](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/twitter) based stock community. He was named as one of the “15 Most Important Economic Journalists” in the United States, and has been called one of The 25 Most Dangerous People in Financial Media.  He was honored to be the dedicatee of Stock Trader’s Almanac‘s 40th Anniversary edition in 2007 and the Yahoo Tech Ticker’s Guest of the Year in 2009. Barry Ritholtz performed his graduate studies at [Yeshiva University’s](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/yeshiva-university) [Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/benjamin-n-cardozo-school-of-law) in New York, where he focused on Economics, Anti-Trust, and Corporate Law. His undergraduate work was at [Stony Brook University](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stony-brook-university), where on a Regents Scholarship, he focused on Mathematics and Physics and graduated in Political Science. Barry Ritholtz and his wife Wendy, an artist and teacher, currently reside in Long Island, New York with monsters Max and Jackson.