Image Credit: Guy Spier, via Vimeo By Jason Zweig | Jan. 25, 2019 8:00 a.m. ET An unexpected phone call from Charlie Munger says at least as much about him as it does about you. Jacob Taylor, chief executive of Farnam Street Investments, a tiny asset-management firm in Folsom, Calif., was stunned when Mr. Munger—Warren Buffett’s business...
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Image credit: George Arnald, “The Destruction of ‘L’Orient’ at the Battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798” (ca. 1825-1827), National Maritime Museum, UK By Jason Zweig | Jan. 19, 2019 12:55pm ET I first met Jack Bogle in 1993, and I last spoke with him on Nov. 16, 2018, although we traded a couple of emails...
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Image Credit: J.M.W. Turner, “Sea View” (ca. 1826), Scottish National Gallery By Jason Zweig | Jan. 18, 2019 6:58 a.m. ET Always aware of his congenital heart disease, never knowing which day would be his last, Jack Bogle drove himself—and his subordinates—hard. “If there was a job to be done, then that is what I would think...
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Image Credit: WSJ.com By Jason Zweig | Jan. 18, 2019 6:57 a.m. ET Three anecdotes about Jack Bogle stick in my memory. In 1995, I had received an offer to leave my job as a mutual-funds editor to become a columnist at a personal-finance magazine. Unable to decide whether to take the offer, I did something I’ve never done before or since: I...
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Image Credit: Johann Thorn Prikker, “Casting out the Moneychangers from the Temple” (stained glass, ca. 1912), Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg (Wikimedia Commons) By Jason Zweig | Jan. 18, 2019 7:00 a.m. ET History will remember Jack Bogle, the founder of Vanguard Group, as the great democratizer of capitalism, the person...
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