Image Credit: Jan Pietersz. Saenredam, after Hendrick Goltzius, “The Fool” (ca. 1595), The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston By Jason Zweig | Dec. 13, 2008 11:59 p.m. ET What do George Carlin and Bernard Madoff have in common? The late comedian immortalized oxymorons, those absurd word pairs like “jumbo shrimp” and “military...
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Image credit: Winslow Homer, “Bear and Canoe” (1895), Brooklyn Museum By Jason Zweig | 9:39 am Nov. 25, 2008 http://blogs.wsj.com/wallet/2008/11/25/what-a-bear-market-might-teach-us/ Jason Zweig writes the Intelligent Investor column every Saturday for The Wall Street Journal. A few days ago I put up a post saying I hoped stocks would...
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By Jason Zweig | Nov. 20, 2008 10:55 am ET Earlier this week, a friend who works on Wall Street told my wife, “I’m not as optimistic as Jason…but I like his columns.” The next day, as I passed my colleague Evan Newmark in the hallway, he joked, “There goes the last bull on Wall Street.” Let’s get this straight, folks. I’m not an optimist or a bull, at...
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Image Credit: Heath Hinegardner By Jason Zweig | Nov. 15, 2008 12:01 a.m. ET The tables have turned. For the past couple of decades, the markets have been dominated by institutional investors who devoured bargains so fast and in such bulk that individual investors were usually left, at best, with a few scraps. But pension funds, hedge...
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Image credit: Mark Hirschey By Jason Zweig Nov. 14, 2008 3:43 PM ET Not so long ago, investing used to be fun. Now it resembles an Olympic archery practice at which the target is you. Maybe you felt a little safer this Thursday, when the Dow went up 553 points. Well, today it dipped by as much as 352 before closing down 338 points. If you...
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