Image Credit: Heath Hinegardner By Jason Zweig | Sept. 13, 2008 11:59 p.m. ET In a stock market that never seems to run out of reasons to go down, you no longer feel like a bull. But that does not necessarily make you a bear. You may, in fact, have become an ostrich. Chances are, you didn’t leap for the letter opener the last time your...
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Image Credit: Heath Hinegardner By Jason Zweig | July 19, 2008 11:59 p.m. ET What goes on inside your head when your portfolio implodes? One of the fear centers in your brain, the amygdala, can respond to upsetting stimuli in 12 milliseconds, or one-25th the time it takes to blink your eye. These brain cells fire when an attack dog snarls at you, a spider...
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Image Credit: Heath Hinegardner By Jason Zweig | July 12, 2008 11:59 p.m. ET When you bought into the gospel of “stocks for the long run,” did you have any idea how long the long run can turn out to be? Exactly 10 years ago, the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock Index was at 1164; it closed Friday at 1239. That’s an annualized average...
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