Joshua M Brown

The Book of Joshua

Hi, I’m Josh. The one in the middle with the red tie. This picture was taken ten years ago. This is me with my co-founders Barry Ritholtz, Michael Batnick and Kris Venne. I made them all wear suits for this photography session. We didn’t have a website yet. In the blue, that’s Erika Mauro, our…

Ten Million Downloads

Happy Labor Day weekend, hope you’re all out enjoying the tail-end of summer rather than spending your time worrying about the market or reading too many uninformed opinions on the web. You can do that all winter 🙂 This week we did a brand new episode of What Are Your Thoughts, you can watch it…

Stop asking random people stupid questions

Barry’s new piece for Bloomberg is really good. I had a good laugh at this section: Inflation Expectations Surveys Are Useless The world is more complex, random and global than ever before. Multiplying unknowns have made economic forecasting even more difficult. But for hilariously wrong predictions, nothing beats surveying random people about where they think inflation will…

Trading Legend Mark Fisher on What it Takes

We had a lot of fun with Joe Terranova and Mark Fisher on the show this week. Mark shared a lot of behavioral stuff about what it takes to make it as a trader. It’s not for everyone and it costs a lot to find this out. I was fascinated by the discussion and judging…