Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | June 5, 2015 9:40 p.m. ET Talk to any money-management executive for more than two minutes and you will get an earful about how impatient investors are. And it is true: Individuals and institutions alike chase performance in good times and bail out in bad times. According to the Investment Company...
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Photo credit: Carol M. Highsmith, “Mural and homeless man in San Francisco Mission District,” Library of Congress By Jason Zweig | June 5, 2015 11:19 a.m. ET The U.S. and other wealthy nations have spent trillions of dollars over the past half-century trying to lift the world’s poorest people out of penury, with largely disappointing...
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Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | May 29, 2015 7:42 p.m. ET If this past week’s stumble in Chinese stocks has you thinking about buying, think twice. On Thursday, the Shanghai Composite Index fell 6.5%, the Shenzhen Stock Exchange Composite Index lost 5.5% and the Hang Seng Index of Hong Kong-listed stocks dropped 2.2%. They changed little...
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