Josh Brown
CEO & Co-Founder, Ritholtz Wealth Management. On 2 shows, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Brown is the CEO of Ritholtz Wealth Management, a registered investment advisory firm managing billions in client assets. He rose to prominence through his blog The Reformed Broker, regularly appears on CNBC's The Halftime Report, and co-hosts The Compound & Friends podcast.
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43statements
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27said about them ↓ Everything Josh Brown said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Brown: Retail pharmacy chains CVS and Walgreens are going away
“All you have to do is look at a chart of CVS, which is in a 60% drawdown from a tie, or look at Walgreens Boots Alliance, which is in a 90% drawdown. These companies are going away.”
Brown: Capitalism collapses unless the middle class is forced to work
“The reason capitalism works is you have people at the top of the heap that have already made it, probably because they killed themselves to get there, and then you have people who want to be where they are and are willing to do the jobs that are necessary in o…”
Brown: The Fed sought a recession to push people back to work
“They never said it, but that was the explicit policy aim. We need to crash this economy to get people back to their jobs. It's crazy. I mean, it didn't work. They weren't able to do it, thank God. We got inflation down anyway despite their efforts”
Brown: AI tools will hollow out entry-level financial advisor apprenticeships
“When I don't need that person, who's probably a 24 year old getting, I don't know, 85,000 in their first year, when I don't need that person, and none of the other firms need that person, and that goes on for five years, you've kind of hollowed out the way tha…”
Brown: Automated 401(k) flows and rebalancing drastically dampen stock market volatility
“The effect of these forces that I'm describing is a dampening of volatility, and it is a acceleration of the correction process. So it's not that we don't have corrections we do, all the time. They don't last long, because the wealth manager, with fifty billio…”
Brown: Investors now have a higher proclivity to panic buy than sell
“There's a higher proclivity to panic buy than panic sell.”
Advisers should manage asset exposure instead of picking star active managers
“Why the fuck are we apologizing for active managers when all we really need to do is get clients the right exposure in these asset classes, and then the decision making is not, did we back secretariat or a glue horse? Then the question is like, do we own too m…”
Forcing clients to endure 50% drawdowns guarantees behavioral blowups
“In the real world, nobody can watch a 50% drawdown take place in their portfolio and live through it. And actually, the more you try to force people to do that, probably, the more of a likelihood there is That your client's going to blow themselves up.”
Public small caps no longer capture historical returns as companies stay private
“There is an argument to be made that absent private companies at this point, you're not really capturing what small caps historically gave you because these companies are not coming public anymore. They're coming public as large caps.”
Josh Brown: AI boom may be the first fear-based investment bubble
“We might be in the first fear-based
Investment bubble ever. Normally when you have an investment bubble, it's greed. In this case, there's an element of, I better invest in this.”
Brown: AI copilots will increase employer demands and eventually replace workers
“My point is the expectations on the part of our employers are just going to go up as we become more tech enabled. So we're doing more, not necessarily being paid more. And many of us are going to reach the point where the quote unquote co-pilot actually should…”
Brown: AI automation will disadvantage workers who prefer rote tasks
“The thing is, not everybody is a creative. Not everybody wants to do something other than rote tasks. There are a lot of people who find comfort in that type of work, and that's what they want to do, and they're not suited for a world where they get half their…”
Brown: Companies Will Become Fabulously Profitable by Automating Busywork
“Yes, companies are going to become fabulously profitable as they institute all this amazing technology that's coming down the pike, and it's already happening, and of course, we're gonna get rid of a lot of busy work that people should not be doing anymore if …”
Brown: 2024 election will likely yield divided government, boosting stocks
“It looks like actually the outcome's gonna be still up in the air, but probably lead to a divided government, which is positive for stocks, historically where no one party gets to do a lot of Weird shit in either direction.”
Josh Brown: Nvidia stated Blackwell chips are sold out for 12 months
“They just told us they sold out of Blackwell chips for 12 months.”
The retail transactional stockbroking business model is fatally flawed
“The entire business model of transactional Brokerage with retail clients was fatally flawed, could not be done correctly”
Regulation cannot cure investor fear, greed, or Wall Street evasion
“There is no amount of regulation and I'm pro regulation, but there is no amount of it that's going to cure, you know, the fear and greed aspect to investing or that's going to stop someone from doing what they want to do, like in the end. And you can do, Three…”
Asset management is useless without a comprehensive financial plan
“The asset management is great, and it's really important to us, and it's the thing that I focus on and Barry focuses, but at the end of the day, it's useless if it's not in service to a financial plan.”
Ritholtz Wealth holds zero commodity exposure across client portfolios
“We have no commodity. None.”
Currency hedging is unnecessary because currency risk generates investment returns
“We're not big buyers of the currency hedging idea. We think that currency is a risk, but risks are sources of return. So give me the risk.”
Josh Brown: Ability to ape humanity sets AI apart from prior tech waves
“I think in the case of AI, its ability to effectively ape humanity
Is what sets it apart from prior waves of technology.”
Brown: CVS's Aetna and Caremark acquisitions failed to deliver expected synergies
“CVS spent, like, huge amounts of money to buy Aetna, and to buy Caremark. So, buy an insurance company, buy a pharmacy pharmacy benefits manager, and basically, take, take a vertical approach to what was obviously going to be a consolidating industry. Those de…”
Brown: Amazon pushed out its touchless tech lead and is closing stores
“The guy that developed the touchless technology for Amazon's retail was just pushed out of the company, and they are closing A lot of those Amazon go stores because there just didn't seem to be anything magical that made people want to go to them.”
The other half of the tape: Josh Brown's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 27 times in 9 episodes across the shows. every mention, with the transcript →
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Big Technology 14
Capital Allocators 13
2026 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2025 2 mentions in 1 episode
2024 9 mentions in 2 episodes 5 per episode
2023 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2021 5 mentions in 1 episode
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| CAPITAL ALLOCATORSLEDGER | CEO & Co-Founder, Ritholtz Wealth Management | 1 | 22 | 100% 3/3 | full record on Capital Allocators → |
| BIG TECHNOLOGYLEDGER | CEO & Co-Founder, Ritholtz Wealth Management | 1 | 21 | 63% 5/8 | full record on Big Technology → |