By Jason Zweig | Dec. 14, 2017 11:01 a.m. ET Image credit: Public Affairs Books I recently spoke with April Rudin about my book, The Devil’s Financial Dictionary, for the Huffington Post. Here’s a transcript, with snippets from the text of the book dropped in. 1. The Devil’s Financial Dictionary is a refreshing mix of...
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By Jason Zweig | Dec. 12, 2017 9:09 p.m. ET Image credit: Pierre Bonnard, “Behind the Fence” (1895), The Hermitage From my archives, this piece looks at the neuroeconomics of home bias: why your brain impels you to keep most of your investments within the country you live in. I discuss that phenomenon in greater depth in Chapter...
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By Jason Zweig | Dec. 11, 2017 8:43 p.m. ET Image credit: Currier and Ives, “A Ride to School,” lithograph, ca. 1874-78, Metropolitan Museum of Art Any day now, with mid-December almost upon us, commentators will start bloviating about the January effect: the purported tendency of small stocks to outperform like clockwork at the turn...
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Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | Dec. 8, 2017 10:46 am ET When just about everybody is using index funds to invest in the stock market, maybe you should think about thinking differently. Over the 12 months ended Oct. 31, investors withdrew $218 billion from U.S. equity funds run by active stock pickers, while adding $273...
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By Jason Zweig | Dec. 10, 2017 9:43 a.m. ET Image credit: Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, “Soap Bubbles” (ca. 1733-4), National Gallery of Art As far as I can tell, this essay, which I wrote in 2003 as an invited contribution to a monograph called “Boom and Bust: Why Did It Happen and What Can We Learn from It?” published by...
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