Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | 8:23 am ET Dec. 24, 2015 ‘Tis the season to make guesses. You might think that to predict stock or bond returns like a Wall Street strategist at year end, you need to mutter obscure incantations over a computer spewing out long equations bristling with Greek letters. But what if simplicity beats...
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By Jason Zweig | Dec. 25, 2015 Image credit: “Getting ’em Up,” U.S. Naval Training Camp, photo, ca. 1917, National Archives In this video, the very funny Kathryn Cicoletti interviews me about The Devil’s Financial Dictionary. Enjoy. Click here to view the video. Source: MSB Cheat Sheet ...
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By Jason Zweig and Rachel Louise Ensign | Dec. 18, 2015 5:14 p.m. ET Federal authorities in Montana and Washington, D.C. are investigating Howard S. Dvorkin, a prominent advocate for consumer-debt relief, over his business ties to payday lenders that charge high rates of interest, according to a person familiar with the probe. Mr. Dvorkin and his...
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Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | 1:19 pm ET Dec. 18, 2015 On Dec. 10, Third Avenue Focused Credit Fund suspended its investors’ right to ask for their money back whenever they wish. That drastic step wasn’t unprecedented, however. It exposed a flaw that has always lurked within the heart of mutual funds — one that exchange-traded funds...
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Image Credit: “New York Stock Exchange, New Year Festivities,” ca. 1885-1890, Museum of American Finance By Jason Zweig | Dec. 15, 2015 9:23 p.m. ET Every year around this time, investors and traders start chattering about the January effect, the pattern in which small stocks earn unusually high returns in the first month of the new year....
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