Barry Ritholtz, Columnist

Betting Against Trump Was a Market-Beater

The companies the president disparaged have done much better than those he favored.

January 10, 2018 at 5:10 PM UTC

Barry Ritholtz is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management, and was previously chief market strategist at Maxim Group. He is the author of “Bailout Nation.”

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Remember when President Donald Trump would call out a company by name, causing its stock price to gyrate madly, whacking a few billions off its market value with just one offhanded tweet?

Good times.