Image credit: Front page of the New York Daily Investment News, Oct. 25, 1929, Museum of American Finance, moaf.org By Jason Zweig 10:17 am ET Nov. 26, 2014 On the 20th anniversary of the Crash of 1929, the Saturday Evening Post asked Fred Schwed Jr., author of the book Where Are the Customers’ Yachts?, to write about what he had learned...
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Photo: Jason Zweig By Jason Zweig 10:11 am ET Nov. 25, 2014 I’m often asked, especially as the holiday gift-giving season approaches, which books I recommend for investors. I haven’t kept exact count, of course, but over the past quarter-century I have surely read (or tried to read) a couple thousand books on investing. Nearly all...
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By Jason Zweig Image credit: Rembrandt van Rijn, “The Parable of the Rich Fool,” 1627. Nov. 25, 2014, 11:04 p.m. Ben Carlson’s recent tweet… The Difference Between an Investment Firm and a Marketing Firm http://t.co/GQVwNQ9t9g cc: @jasonzweigwsj — Ben Carlson (@awealthofcs) November 20, 2014 …prompted several...
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Image credit: Shane Frederick (mug), Jason Zweig (photo) By Jason Zweig Nov. 25, 2014 I first met Danny Kahneman at a conference on behavioral finance at Harvard University in 1996. I wasn’t struck by his ideas; I was stricken with them. They took me over like an infection; for months, I could think of little else, and for years I...
Read MoreBy Jason Zweig | 1:00 pm ET Nov. 21, 2014Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet Foreign stocks are in the red this year, even after a rally on Friday, while U.S. indexes set record after record. Japan is in recession, Europe is stagnating and the dollar is booming. It’s understandable that U.S. investors in October pulled more than $2 billion out of...
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