[2] Ritholtz, Ben Carlson, Josh Brown, and Michael Batnick, run a blog with insights on financial markets entitled The Big Picture.
[4] Ritholtz graduated from Stony Brook University with a degree in political science and a minor in philosophy.
[citation needed] He was a member of the school's equestrian team, and competed in the 1981 National Championships of the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association.
He also writes an investing column for The Washington Post,[8] and a blog, The Big Picture, which has been running since 2003.
[3][9] In 2009, he published his first book, Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy.