By Jason Zweig | Sept. 15, 2017 7:35 p.m. ET Image credit: Carol M. Highsmith, “Roller Coaster in Santa Cruz” (2012), Library of Congress The triple-digit and even quadruple-digit gains that some people have gotten (at least for now!) on bitcoin and other cryptocurrency-related speculations don’t just remind me of the Internet bubble in...
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By Jason Zweig | Sept. 14, 2017 9:20 p.m. ET Image credit: “Egg Basket,” early 20th century, The Valentine Collection (Google Art Project) In February 2000, a financial advisor named Bob Markman* wrote an article that got a huge amount of attention online. Called “A Whole Lot of Bull*#%!” (that’s how the original was...
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By Jason Zweig | Sept. 13, 2017 9:30 p.m. ET Image credit: Pixabay I was on Consuelo Mack’s WealthTrack show on public TV earlier this month, alongside Jason DeSena Trennert, head of Strategas Research Partners. We had a lot of fun talking about how index funds have changed the markets and what investors should do about it. Here’s a link to...
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Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | Sept. 8, 2017 9:22 am ET When looking for a financial adviser, asking the right questions matters. How you ask them might matter even more. In my last column, I recommended 19 questions that investors should ask a prospective financial adviser. It uncorked a flood of comments, emails and...
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By Jason Zweig | Sept. 4, 2017 5:30 p.m. ET Image credit: Jan Davidszoon de Heem, “Still Life with Books and a Violin” (1628), Mauritshuis I’m always struck by how many people seem to want to know what I’ve been reading lately. It’s healthy to use books as resistance bands that build different mental muscles, so when...
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