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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...

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A 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...

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Vanguard: 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,...

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Why 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...

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Mr. 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...

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Guard 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...

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Would 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...

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30% 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...

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Bill 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...

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For 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...

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Watch 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...

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The 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....

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What 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...

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Benjamin 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...

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Why 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,...

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Why 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...

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An 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...

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The 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...

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How 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...

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Energy 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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