Image Credit: Clara Horton listening to the latest decorative radio set, photo, 1925, Library of Congress I’ve had the pleasure of being on a few great radio shows and podcasts lately, chatting mainly about The Devil’s Financial Dictionary but about a lot of other things, too. Here are links in case you missed them: Barry Ritholtz,...
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Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | 12:27 pm ET Nov. 6, 2015 If you think individual investors can’t move the stock market anymore, think again. At the beginning of next month, a few tiny stocks may suddenly jump in price and trading volume. Behind the moves: the American Association of Individual Investors. This Chicago-based organization,...
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Image credit: Music Day, Arlesheim, 2004, Roland Zumbühl (Picswiss), Wikimedia Commons By Jason Zweig | Nov. 3, 2015 9:23 p.m. ET I gave a book talk at The Museum of American Finance, explaining where The Devil’s Financial Dictionary came from, as well as the social and cultural history of the ideas and illustrations that were so much fun to explore as I...
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Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | 1:59 pm ET Oct. 30, 2015 If you see fat 4% “yields” for the municipal bonds in your brokerage-account statement, don’t believe them. Overstating the expected income on municipal bonds in brokerage or advisory accounts is one of the most pervasive and persistent ways the financial industry fools the...
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