By Jason Zweig | March 25, 2016 Image credit: “Bugle megaphone, Fort Totten,” Bain News Service, 1917, Library of Congress I went on Motley Fool Money to talk with Chris Hill about The Devil’s Financial Dictionary and how I first got interested in investing back in the antediluvian days of the late 1970s. I made big mistakes back...
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By Jason Zweig | March 25, 2016 Image credit: Coach Jim Rice, photo, ca. 1910, Library of Congress Jake Taylor of the podcast Five Good Questions lived up to its name and asked me a handful of excellent questions about investing and The Devil’s Financial Dictionary. Among them: Do you believe that the markets are like large casinos or do they...
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Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | Mar. 18, 2016 1:19 pm ET With U.S. stocks surging this past week and breaking into the black for 2016, remember: What you expect the stock market to do next is shaped largely by what it just did. Earlier this year, when stocks lost 5% in January and were down 10.5% at their worst, individual investors were...
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Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | Mar. 11, 2016 10:09 am ET Once upon a time, fund managers kept plenty of cash in reserve in case the stock market tanked. Those days are gone. When stocks are overpriced, as many analysts believe they are now, your fund manager is just going to keep right on buying them. And when the market drops, your fund...
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Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | Mar. 4, 2016 12:03 pm ET For some people, the best way to hit the investment target is by not even taking aim. With “target-date funds,” which hold a pre-selected basket of mutual funds and change it gradually over time, workers can invest for retirement with their hands tied behind their backs. Once they...
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