Image Credit: Antonio de Pereda y Salgado, “Allegory of Vanity,” detail (ca. 1634), Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, via Wikimedia Commons By Jason Zweig | Oct. 1, 2018 11:02 a.m. ET After I pulled one old column out of my archives, I found another piece — from an old “mailbag” feature in which I answered questions...
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Image Credit: Johannes Vermeer, “The Astronomer” (ca. 1668), The Louvre via Wikimedia Commons By Jason Zweig | Oct. 1, 2018 11:01 a.m. ET One of the worst occupational hazards of doing the same thing for a long time is repeating yourself — often without noticing it. My column for The Wall Street Journal this past weekend, I...
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Image Credit: Alex Nabaum By Jason Zweig | Sept. 28, 2018 11:00 a.m. ET Does it make sense to invest anywhere but in the U.S? While the S&P 500 is within 1% of its all-time high, European markets are flat, Chinese stocks are in a deep slump and the Japanese market—after a huge recent run-up—has finally clawed its way back to where it was...
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Image Credit: Alex Nabaum By Jason Zweig | Sept. 21, 2018 11:00 a.m. ET Every year, as the end of summer approaches, monarch butterflies head for Mexico, birds migrate south for the winter, and financial pundits predict that the stock market is about to crash. Is the longstanding popular belief that September and October are the worst months for...
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Image Credit: “Next!” (Standard Oil Co. as an octopus), Udo Keppler, Puck magazine, Sept. 7, 1904, Library of Congress By Jason Zweig | Sept. 22, 2018 7:38 a.m. ET In July 2009, journalist Matt Taibbi invoked an indelible image when he described Goldman Sachs as “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity,...
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