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Stock Picking Is Dying Because There Are No More Stocks to Pick

Stock Picking Is Dying Because There Are No More Stocks to Pick

Posted by on Jun 26, 2017 in Articles & Advice, Blog, Columns, Featured |

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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A (Long) Chat with Peter L. Bernstein

A (Long) Chat with Peter L. Bernstein

Posted by on Jun 26, 2017 in Articles & Advice, Blog, Featured, Posts |

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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Escaping the Magnetic Pull of a Bubble

Escaping the Magnetic Pull of a Bubble

Posted by on Jun 19, 2017 in Articles & Advice, Blog, Featured, Posts |

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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On Fathers’ Day

On Fathers’ Day

Posted by on Jun 18, 2017 in Articles & Advice, Blog, Featured, Posts |

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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