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Good Advice, or Advice that Sounds Good?

Good Advice, or Advice that Sounds Good?

Posted by on Jun 29, 2015 in Articles & Advice, Blog, Featured, Posts |

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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Consuming Financial News without Being Consumed by It

Consuming Financial News without Being Consumed by It

Posted by on Jun 28, 2015 in Blog, Featured, Posts |

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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False Profits

False Profits

Posted by on Jun 23, 2015 in Articles & Advice, Blog, Featured, Posts |

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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Why You’re Paying Too Much in Fees

Why You’re Paying Too Much in Fees

Posted by on Jun 22, 2015 in Articles & Advice, Blog, Columns |

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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The Trouble with Humans

The Trouble with Humans

Posted by on Jun 21, 2015 in Blog, Posts, Speaking |

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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