Image Credit: Heath Hinegardner By Jason Zweig | Nov. 1, 2008 11:59 p.m. ET Wouldn’t it be nice, in this miserable market, to be Warren Buffett? Fortunately, a cottage industry has sprung up to teach investors how to emulate the master. Unfortunately, you might as well try to catch a bolt of lightning in a paper cup. For the first two decades of...
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Image Credit: Heath Hinegardner By Jason Zweig | Oct. 25, 2008 12:01 a.m. ET Wall Street often resembles a blindfolded person looking in a darkened closet for a pair of black shoes that isn’t there. With the Dow taking another battering in the past week, another round of futility is under way: the search for “capitulation.” There’s...
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Image Credit: Heath Hinegardner By Jason Zweig | Oct. 18, 2008 12:01 a.m. ET Panic. Panic is a wild, irresistible fear that spreads through crowds like an epidemic — and it may be upon us now, with day after day of multi-hundred-point swings in the Dow. The word itself seems almost primeval; it derives from Pan, the goat-headed god of...
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Image Credit: StockSnap, via Pixabay By Jason Zweig | Updated Oct. 7, 2008 12:01 am ET So do you feel like quitting yet? If Monday’s 800-point intraday plunge in the Dow Jones Industrial Average made you want to give up and get out of stocks, you’re not alone. I’ve written column after column advising investors to buy...
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Image Credit: “Mouth of Hell,” detail from the Hours of Catherine of Cleves, Dutch, ca. 1440, The Morgan Library By Jason Zweig | Sept. 16, 2008 12:01 a.m. ET If you learn nothing else from the last few harrowing days, you should learn the difference between what is obvious and what is inevitable. In the heat of the moment, the two perceptions...
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