By Jason Zweig | Dec. 9, 2017 10:43 a.m. ET Image credit: Jan Davidszoon de Heem, “Still Life with Books and a Violin” (1628), Maurithuis Almost every day, people ask me what I’ve been reading lately. Here are a few books and other works I’ve especially enjoyed in the past few weeks. Janet Browne (editor), The...
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Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | Dec. 1, 2017 12:12 pm ET The gravity-defying rise of bitcoin has been drawing in new money from people who appear to know nothing about the cryptocurrency other than the fact that its price has gone up a lot in a hurry. On Nov. 30 the fifth-most popular stock among brokerage customers of...
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By Jason Zweig | Dec. 1, 2017 11:39 a.m. ET Image credit: Sancta Fides (Faith), from a Book of Hours, France, ca. 1475, The Morgan Library Most people measure patience in hours, weeks or months. Tamar Frankel measures it in decades. Ms. Frankel, a law professor at Boston University, is the intellectual godmother of the fiduciary rule, a regulation...
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By Jason Zweig | Dec. 3, 2017 10:28 a.m. ET Image credit: Hieronymus Bosch (or follower), “The Conjurer” (ca. 1496-1516), Musee Municipal, St.-Germain-en-Laye, via Wikimedia Commons From my archives, here’s the first of several articles I’ve written on the crepuscular practice of “window-dressing,” also called...
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Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | Nov. 17, 2017 1:09 pm ET Big gains can be hard to find in the financial markets. Nowadays, though, they seem to be everywhere — and that could change how you feel about taking risks. As of Nov. 16, the S&P 500 is up 359% since the bull market began March 9, 2009, counting dividends,...
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