By Jason Zweig | 1:10 pm ET Sept. 12, 2014Image Credit: Charlie Munger (May 5, 2010), by Nick, Wikimedia Commons Among investors and admirers of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Charles T. Munger is famous as the laconic foil to the company’s chairman, the voluble Warren Buffett. At the annual shareholders’ meeting in Omaha each spring, Mr. Buffett speaks...
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By Jason Zweig | 12:29 pm ET Sept. 12, 2014Photo Credit: Jason Zweig Why did nearly 250 investors converge on Los Angeles this past week to listen to a 90-year-old man address the annual meeting of a tiny legal-publishing and software company? To hear Charles T. Munger—better known as Warren Buffett’s right-hand man—expound on one of his least-known...
Read MoreAbove: Standing-room only for investors shortly before Charlie Munger took the floor at the Daily Journal Corp. annual meeting (photo: Jason Zweig). By Jason Zweig Updated Sept. 10, 2014 9:01 p.m. ET Charles T. Munger defended recent decisions by his business partner, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman Warren Buffett, and predicted that...
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Image credit: Vincent van Gogh, “The Reaper” (after Jean-Baptiste Millet), 1889, Wikimedia Commons By Jason Zweig 7:00 am ET Sept. 6, 2014 My “Intelligent Investor” column this weekend discusses new research on what psychologists call “shared attention”—the state of paying heed to an object or event at the same time your peers are also...
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By Jason Zweig | 12:50 pm ET Sept. 5, 2014Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet For investors, emotions can be contagious. With U.S. stocks near record highs and European bourses sizzling, now is the time to immunize yourself against the risk that a sudden selloff will infect the markets—and you—with panic. New research helps explain how financial contagion...
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