Barry Ritholtz

Among Monday's top online stories for investors: Why Paul Volker says the market is broken, a hedge fund manager's rules for living large, and how this recession compares to previous ones.

When it comes to the holiday selling season and stock market performance, there's a case to be made that retail sales forecasts are putting the shopping cart before the equity horse. That's the conclusion from Jeffrey Kleintop, chief market strategist at LPL Financial, the Boston-based financial...

Words have been flying on the politically charged topic of the role the Community Re-investment Act, a law passed in the 1970s to encourage bank lending to low-income borrowers, had in creating the housing bubble. But unlike your typical debate in the blogosphere, this carries more than just links...

Nassim Nicholas Taleb doesn't want everyone to think he's predicting a bout of hyper-inflation for the U.S. economy, contrary to a much-discussed Wall Street Journal article earlier this week.One of the bearish sages who have catapulted to renown as the economy teeters, the former derivatives...

Rick Santelli made headlines a few weeks ago when he criticized President Obama's new housing plan live on CNBC. Millions of people saw him call for a "tea party" to protest the plan's supposed bailout of "losers" in danger of defaulting on their mortgages. In the wake of his impassioned rant,...