Image Credit: Peter Stackpole, “A raven typing his own name on the typewriter” (1939), LIFE Photo Collection via Google Arts & Culture By Jason Zweig | Nov. 25, 2018 8:35 pm ET In Part One of this series, we looked at getting started on becoming a better writer: how to get unstuck, how to find your voice, how to use the first...
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Image Credit: Johannes Vermeer, “A Lady Writing” (ca. 1665), National Gallery of Art By Jason Zweig | Nov. 18, 2018 8:00 pm ET People often ask me to tell them, or teach them, how to write well. Not in my craziest dreams — or, to be more precise, in my worst nightmares — would I ever say I...
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Image Credit: Alex Nabaum By Jason Zweig | Nov. 16, 2018 12:00 p.m. ET The stock market used to reward companies for beating Wall Street analysts’ expectations of how much they could earn. That may be changing. So far this quarter, through Wednesday morning, 161 companies in the S&P 500 that have announced better-than-expected earnings have had...
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Image Credit: Alex Nabaum By Jason Zweig | Nov. 9, 2018 11:49 a.m. ET In late October, as the stock market was floundering, brash emails started to appear in my inbox. With the subject line “Stock Exchange predictions for tomorrow and next trading week,” the messages said they contained forecasts “generated by 7,445 adaptive machine intelligence...
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Image Credit: Alex Nabaum By Jason Zweig | Nov. 2, 2018 12:41 p.m. ET Maybe investors should question the dogma of “stocks for the long run.” History shows that a portfolio of bonds has outperformed stocks surprisingly often and for shockingly long periods. That’s the intriguing argument in a new research paper by Edward McQuarrie, a retired...
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