A frequent commentator on economic data and financial markets, Barry L. Ritholtz is a regular guest on CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox, CNN, ABC, CBS, PBS, MSNBC, and C/SPAN. He has appeared on many shows, including Nightline, ABC World News Tonight, Fast Money, Kudlow & Co, and Power Lunch, and has guest-hosted Squawk Box on numerous occasions. He appears regularly on Bloomberg Radio, NPR, CBS, and other radio broadcasts.

Mr. Ritholtz was profiled in the Wall Street Journal’s Quite Contrary column (August 3, 2004; Page C3). More recently, he was the subject of a Barrons interview, titled A Leading Bear Turns Bullish, Sort of (December 8, 2008). His market perspectives are quoted regularly in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Forbes, Fortune, Smart Money, Kiplingers, and many other print media.

Dow Jones Market Talk noted that “many market observers predict tops and bottoms, but few successfully get their timing right. Jeremy Grantham and Barry Ritholtz sit in the latter category…” For the prescience of his market calls in 2009, he was awarded Yahoo Tech Ticker’s Guest of the Year.

Mr. Ritholtz is the author of the book Bailout Nation, published by Wiley & Co. summer 2009. It has become the best reviewed book on the bailouts to date. The New York Times called it “Irreverent,” and “an important book about a complicated subject, and yet you could still read it at the beach.” The Wall Street Journal noted “If you want to know how we got into this mess and what might still be coming, this is the book for you.” And Bloomberg praised it as “A valuable new contribution to our understanding of how we arrived at this sorry juncture.”

Bailout Nation has become the best reviewed book on the credit crisis and collapse. It was named Investment book of the year by Stock Trader’s Almanac and won a First Amendment Award for Outstanding Journalism: Best Book Bailout Nation. Numerous media — USA Today, Miami Herald, Marketplace Radio — named it one of the best finance/business books of 2009.

In his day job, Mr. Ritholtz is CEO and Director of Equity Research at Fusion IQ, an online quantitative research firm. The firm makes its institutional strength number crunching available to individual traders and investors. This marks the first time an institutional grade quant research product is available to the public at an affordable price.

Ritholtz was deeply honored to be the dedicatee of the The 2007 Stock Trader’s Almanac‘s 40th Anniversary edition. He is a sought after speaker at conferences and panels, and regularly appears on radio and television.

Beyond his commentary and published articles, Mr. Ritholtz also authors The Big Picture — a leading financial weblog, generating several million page views per month. The Big Picture covers Investing & Trading to Macro Economics, and everything else in between. The blog has quickly amassed ~50 million visitors.

Media accolades have poured in for The Big Picture from the NYT (“Trenchant economic commentary”) and the WSJ (“What the In-Crowd Knows). The Journal cited The Big Picture as the Economic “Blog Insiders Read to Stay Current;” Business Week noted its “insightful calls on the direction of the stock market” (Blogging For Dollars). CNBC’s Larry Kudlow described it as “very helpful and addictive — the best stock market blog there is.” Numerous traffic sites rank The Big Picture as one of the most trafficked Markets/Economic’s blogs on the web.

Previously, Mr. Ritholtz was Chief Market Strategist for Maxim Group a New York Investment bank, managing over $5 Billion in clients assets. Applying his model to the broader investing environment, Mr. Ritholtz wrote weekly Market Commentary for the firm’s brokers and institutional clientele.

Mr. Ritholtz is the author of the popular “Apprenticed Investor” columns at TheStreet.com, a series geared towards educating novice and intermediate investors. Mr. Ritholtz also publishes more formal analyses, often at The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, or RealMoney.com3.

Hailed as a “bright and savvy fellow” by Alan Abelson’s Up and Down Wall Street column (Barron’s), he is one of handful of Strategists who participate in BusinessWeek’s annual market forecast. He has taught The Economy of America for New York University’s School of Continuing & Professional Studies.

Mr. Ritholtz performed his graduate studies at Yeshiva University’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York, where he focused on Economics, Anti-Trust and Corporate Law. He was a member of the Law Review, and graduated Cum Laude with a 3.56 GPA.

His undergraduate work was at Stony Brook University, where on a Regents Scholarship, he focused on Mathematics and Physics, graduating with an Bachelor Arts & Sciences degree in Political Science. He was a member of the Stony Brook Equestrian Team, and competed successfully in the National Championships (1981) of the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association. In addition to writing the National Affairs column for the campus weekly (The Stony Brook Press), he was elected Vice-President of the student body.

When not bemoaning the New York Knicks‘ all-too-frequent offensive lapses, Mr. Ritholtz is a vintage sports car enthusiast. He and his wife Wendy, an artist and teacher, live on the North Shore of Long Island, New York with their hairy dogs Max and Jackson.

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