Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | Feb. 22, 2013 5:40 p.m. ET Are those who can’t remember the crash condemned to repeat it? Markets have been rising and investors returning to stocks, thanks to cheap money from central banks, a rash of takeover deals, the glimmers of economic recovery — and an epidemic of amnesia. Many investors have...
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Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | Feb. 15, 2013 4:55 p.m. ET “Most people aren’t cut out for value investing, because human nature shrinks from pain,” the money manager Jean-Marie Eveillard told me this past week. His words are a reminder that making money on cheap stocks — the goal of every value investor — is harder...
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Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | Feb. 8, 2013 4:22 p.m. ET If you care about risk, not just return, you could be forgiven for just wanting to bury your money in your backyard. With bond prices near all-time highs and yields near record lows, the returns on many bonds are doomed to be negative after inflation. Since 2000, the U.S. stock...
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