Image credit: “Big Fish Eat Little Fish,” engraving, 1557, Pieter van der Heyden, after Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Hieronymus Bosch, National Gallery of Art By Jason Zweig | Sept. 15, 2015 3:43 p.m. ET The free market isn’t merely the best mechanism ever devised to provide people with what they want; it is also the best mechanism ever...
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Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | 11:04 am ET Sept. 4, 2015 While the sharp swings in the stock market in the past couple of weeks have scared many investors, others have been buying. But you can hit snags when you bottom-fish, so the key is to act on a plan rather than out of instinct. The day after the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped...
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Image credit: “Flora’s Wagon of Fools,” Hendrick Gerritsz Pot, ca. 1637, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem In the 1630s, prices for tulip bulbs in the Netherlands took off. The market concentrated on bulbs infected with a mosaic virus that triggered brilliantly colored stripes and flamboyant feathering in the petals. These spectacularly colored...
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