Welcome to the Jill on Money Show. It is Thursday Independence Day and yes

we are dropping episodes on this long holiday weekend and we hope you so enjoy

this because I've got a very fun surprise for you. I was able to sit down and

interview a legend of the industry, Barry Ritholz.

And we're going to run the interview today and then also Saturday and Sunday.

We're skipping tomorrow because we want to maintain our Friday focus so we don't want to break

format for that but today Saturday Sunday we're going to be talking to

Barry Riddhaltz now you may have heard of him because he's got a great blog called The Big Picture.

He's also on Bloomberg.

He has a podcast on Bloomberg called Masters in Business.

And he is also a founder of Ritholz Wealth Management.

And I've known Barry for a long time, but reacquainted with him through my recent collaboration

with his partners, Josh Brown and Michael Batnick at Ritholz Wealth Management who

hosts the compound.

So without further ado, we're going to sit back, get to know Barry Ritholz, his backstories

where we begin today.

Barry, a lot of the people that I talk to in my world

may not know who you are, so I'm

going to do a little bit of a backgrounder.

So you were born where Brooklyn and despite having no accent

whatsoever no none that's where I was born Brooklyn Williamsburg New Jersey for a couple of years long island

and york city and how did you get into this business by accident tell us

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