Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons By Jason Zweig | Dec. 21, 2018 12:02 p.m. ET The person who helped inspire the passive-investing boom, the late economist Paul Samuelson, became wealthy from his active investments. The greatest active investor of our time, Warren Buffett, advocates investing passively. Their paths crossed, decades ago, in ways that...
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Image Credit: Alex Nabaum By Jason Zweig | Dec. 7, 2018 12:38 p.m. ET Admit it. You know a nearly 800-point decline in the Dow Jones Industrial Average is only a 3% drop. But it makes you feel uneasy anyway—especially when it happens twice in a row during intraday trading, as it did this week. It may also make you want to do something. Or at least...
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Image Credit: Alex Nabaum By Jason Zweig | Nov. 30, 2018 12:00 p.m. ET Mutual-fund investors got to express their gratitude on Thanksgiving. Many of them won’t feel so appreciative between now and year end. This tax year is shaping up as one of the worst on record for investors with mutual funds outside of retirement accounts. That’s despite muted...
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Image credit: Henriette Browne, “A Girl Writing” (ca. 1870), Victoria and Albert Museum By Jason Zweig | Dec. 2, 2018 10:00 pm ET In Part One and Part Two of this series, we looked at how to get started as a writer and how to sharpen your skills. In this final part, let’s talk about what it means to be a writer. What makes writing...
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Image Credit: Jan Steen, “The Little Alms Collector” (ca. 1663-1665), Petit Palais Musee des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris By Jason Zweig | November 28, 2018 Charitable giving is on a lot of people’s minds this time of year. It’s worth noting that while many nonprofits promote great causes, few are great at managing...
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