Image credit: “The Fortune Teller,” Georges de la Tour, ca. 1630, The Metropolitan Museum of Art By Jason Zweig | June 28, 2015 7:47 p.m. ET This article, which I wrote years ago for the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, no longer seems to be readily available online, so I’ve fished it out of the Internet...
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Image credit: Joost Ammann, “The Printing Shop,” ca. 1568, Wikipedia Creative Commons By Jason Zweig So far as I can tell, I was the first journalist to highlight the work of cognitive psychologist Paul Andreassen, whose innovative experiments in the late 1980s had shown that paying close attention to financial news can...
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Image credit: “Unclean Spirits Issuing from the Mouths of the Dragon, the Beast, and the False Prophet,” detail from a British illuminated manuscript, ca. 1255-1260, The J. Paul Getty Museum By Jason Zweig | June 20, 2015 5:47 p.m. ET One of my all-time favorite articles, this one (from 1999) triggered dozens of hate mails and an...
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Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | 1:01 pm ET June 19, 2015 The way financial advisors charge for their advice often makes no sense, and it needs to change. The typical advisor charges absurdly high fees to manage your money, often with mediocre results—but next to nothing to provide financial-planning expertise, which can be hugely...
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Image credit: detail from border of birdcages, p. 247, The Hours of Catherine of Cleves (Dutch, ca. 1440), The Morgan Library By Jason Zweig | June 20, 2015 5:47 p.m. ET Here’s the first article I wrote on the neuroscience of financial decision-making. It startled even me to realize that it was published almost 15 years ago. The Trouble with...
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