Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | June 23, 2017 9:17 am ET In less than two decades, more than half of all publicly traded companies have disappeared. There were 7,355 U.S. stocks in November 1997, according to the Center for Research in Security Prices at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. Nowadays, there...
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By Jason Zweig | June 25, 2017 6:31 pm ET Image credit: Johannes Vermeer, “The Geographer” (1669), Städel Museum, Frankfurt Looking through my files recently, I came across a buried treasure: a transcript of the highlights of my hours-long interview with the great Peter L. Bernstein at his vacation home in Brattleboro, Vt., on July 28,...
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By Jason Zweig | June 16, 2017 5:31 pm ET Image credit: J.S. Pughe, “A Dangerous Bubble,” from Puck, Oct. 22, 1902, Library of Congress To get out of a bubble before it bursts, you have to be extremely smart, extremely lucky — or both. That’s the principle that Samuel Lee, the subject of my column today, is testing. He has bought into...
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Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | June 16, 2017 11:08 am ET When the asset that makes up more than two-thirds of his net worth lost almost 25% in a few hours this past week, Samuel Lee did the obvious thing: He took a nap. Mr. Lee, 31 years old, runs SVRN Asset Management, a small investment-advisory firm in Chicago. In his...
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By Jason Zweig | June 18, 2017 7:31 pm ET Image credit: Irving J. Zweig (right), in 1961, on Lake Eden in Belcher, N.Y. with sons Stefan (left) and Jason (center); photo by Felice A. Zweig My dad, Irving J. Zweig — farmer, semi-pro baseball player, history teacher, war hero, scholar, reporter, editor, publisher, art connoisseur — died...
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