Are You a Better Investor?
By Jason Zweig | Sept. 18, 2017 8:22 p.m. ET Image credit: Erastus Salisbury Field, “The Garden of Eden” (ca. 1860), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston One of the most remarkable aspects of today’s...
View ArticleA Parable
By Jason Zweig | Sept. 25, 2017 9:37 p.m. ET Image credit: Elihu Vedder, “The Questioner of the Sphinx” (1863) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston I traveled around the world and realized how little I...
View ArticleVanguard: The Penny-Pincher
By Jason Zweig | Sept. 26, 2017 8:22 p.m. ET Image credit: “St. George Slaying the Dragon” (Fol. 153v, ca. 1475), Manuscript M.1001, Pierpont Morgan Library I’m pretty sure this article, from 1995,...
View ArticleWhy You Don’t Want to Invest Like an Expert
By Jason Zweig | Oct. 1, 2017 8:22 p.m. ET Image credit: “Five Circus Clowns” (1890), Library of Congress I’ve been thinking a lot over the past couple years about the barrage of research purporting...
View ArticleMr. Worst-case scenario
By Jason Zweig | Oct. 2, 2017 9:28 p.m. ET Image credit: Paul Peel, “The Bubble Boy” (1884), Art Gallery of Ontario (Wikimedia Commons/Google Art Project) From the archives, here’s one of my old...
View ArticleGuard Against Complacency
Jason Zweig | Oct. 26, 2017 9:00 a.m. ET Image credit: Currier and Ives, “Be Not Wise in Thine Own Eyes” (1872), Library of Congress October 26, 2017 I had fun recently chatting with Heather Bell...
View ArticleWould Fund Managers Work Better in the Dark?
By Jason Zweig | Oct. 29, 2017 6:09 p.m. ET Image credit: Vincent van Gogh, “Starry Night Over the Rhone” (1888), Musee d’Orsay via Wikimedia Commons Earlier this month, a hedge-fund executive told...
View Article30% of Your Assets in Bitcoin?
By Jason Zweig | Oct. 27, 2017 11:32 am ET Image credit: Pixabay Fund manager Bill Miller, who beat the market for 15 years in a row only to lose 55% in 2008, is bullish on bitcoin. The former...
View ArticleBill Miller: What’s luck got to do with it?
By Jason Zweig | Nov. 7, 2017 8:55 p.m. ET Image credit: Odilon Redon (1840-1916), “Man Carrying Dice,” pen and ink with gouache, via Pictify Here, from a decade ago, is an old Q&A I did with...
View ArticleFor Veterans’ Day
Image credit: U.S. Army Warrant Officer Irving J. Zweig, ca. 1945 (courtesy Felice A. Zweig) I never served in the U.S. military, but my father fought in World War II. A former journalist himself, he...
View ArticleWatch Out for the Year-End Fund Flimflam
By Jason Zweig | Dec. 3, 2017 10:28 a.m. ET Image credit: Hieronymus Bosch (or follower), “The Conjurer” (ca. 1496-1516), Musee Municipal, St.-Germain-en-Laye, via Wikimedia Commons From my...
View ArticleThe 92-Year-Old Who Is Still Shaking Up Wall Street
By Jason Zweig | Dec. 1, 2017 11:39 a.m. ET Image credit: Sancta Fides (Faith), from a Book of Hours, France, ca. 1475, The Morgan Library Most people measure patience in hours, weeks or months....
View ArticleWhat I’ve Been Reading Lately
By Jason Zweig | Dec. 9, 2017 10:43 a.m. ET Image credit: Jan Davidszoon de Heem, “Still Life with Books and a Violin” (1628), Maurithuis Almost every day, people ask me what I’ve been reading...
View ArticleBenjamin Graham, the Human Brain, and the Bubble
By Jason Zweig | Dec. 10, 2017 9:43 a.m. ET Image credit: Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, “Soap Bubbles” (ca. 1733-4), National Gallery of Art As far as I can tell, this essay, which I wrote in 2003...
View ArticleWhy the “January Effect” Is Just Slush
By Jason Zweig | Dec. 11, 2017 8:43 p.m. ET Image credit: Currier and Ives, “A Ride to School,” lithograph, ca. 1874-78, Metropolitan Museum of Art Any day now, with mid-December almost upon us,...
View ArticleWhy Investors Stay Home and Why It’s a Bad Idea
By Jason Zweig | Dec. 12, 2017 9:09 p.m. ET Image credit: Pierre Bonnard, “Behind the Fence” (1895), The Hermitage From my archives, this piece looks at the neuroeconomics of home bias: why your...
View ArticleAn Interview About “The Devil’s Financial Dictionary”
By Jason Zweig | Dec. 14, 2017 11:01 a.m. ET Image credit: Public Affairs Books I recently spoke with April Rudin about my book, The Devil’s Financial Dictionary, for the Huffington Post. Here’s a...
View ArticleThe Rip van Winkle Portfolio
By Jason Zweig | Dec. 14, 2017 11:01 a.m. ET Image credit: John Quidor, “The Return of Rip van Winkle” (1849), National Gallery of Art Just about everybody claims to be a long-term investor, even...
View ArticleHow to Lose $9 Trillion in a Bull Market
By Jason Zweig | Dec. 20, 2017 8:55 p.m. ET Image credit: Pieter Bruegel the Elder, “The Battle About Money” (engraving by Pieter van der Heyden), ca. 1570, Metropolitan Museum of Art Here, from a...
View ArticleEnergy Investors: Behold the Miracle of the Tax Law
Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | Dec. 22, 2017 11:31 am ET What a difference a rate makes. With the signing of the new tax bill into law, the value of some funds investing in energy...
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