Image Credit: Alex Nabaum By Jason Zweig | Oct. 26, 2018 12:48 p.m. ET Even as stock markets sank again, one person (or group) made a lot of money this past week: the yet-to-be-identified holder of the single ticket that won the Mega Millions lottery. The lucky winner or winners hit a jackpot worth $1.54 billion in estimated annuity value (or $878...
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Image Credit: Alex Nabaum By Jason Zweig | Oct. 19, 2018 11:48 a.m. ET Some of the most interesting lessons in the emerging science of success are about failure. In an upcoming book, The Formula: The Universal Laws of Success, Albert-László Barabási, a physicist at Northeastern University, describes what makes some ideas and people succeed and...
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Image Credit: Rare Book Division, New York Public Library By Jason Zweig | Oct. 17, 2018 7:12 ET At the Bogleheads conference a few weeks ago, I was asked how to teach children to handle money responsibly. “Tell stories,” I said. And yesterday, I was eating an apple, munching my way down to the core as I always do — in...
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Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons By Jason Zweig | Oct. 11, 2018 12:47 p.m. ET If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on the Fed; If you can trust yourself when guests on CNBC shout anew, But make allowance for their shouting dread; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, surrounded by nonsense,...
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Image Credit: Institute for the Fiduciary Standard, Wikimedia Commons By Jason Zweig | Oct. 7, 2018 8:00 p.m. ET Introductory note: I’ve known Jack Bogle, the founder of The Vanguard Group, since (if I remember right) 1992. Back then, I thought index funds were a great idea that would probably never catch on the way they deserved to. I also...
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