Image Credit: Alex Nabaum By Jason Zweig | May 24, 2019 11:00 a.m. ET The trade battle between the U.S. and China hasn’t just hurt American farmers and Chinese exporters; it has also hit U.S. investors who pumped $2.8 billion into China funds in the first four months of 2019 on top of the $6.4 billion they added last year. So far this...
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Image Credit: Adam Bernaert, Vanitas Still-Life (detail), ca. 1665, The Walters Art Museum By Jason Zweig | May 21, 2019 9:59 p.m. ET It took a while for us to synch our schedules, but I recently chatted with David Perell for his North Star podcast. I’ve fixed a few minor errors in the online transcript that David posted. My corrected...
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Image Credit: Alex Nabaum By Jason Zweig | May 17, 2019 11:04 a.m. ET When stock markets fall sharply and immediately recover, the losses seem to disappear. But that doesn’t mean no one feels any pain. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 617 points, or 2.4%, on Monday—then promptly went up by an almost identical amount over the next three...
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Image Credit: Ben Graham in Sevilla, Spain, October 1964 (photo: courtesy Benjamin Graham, Jr.) By Jason Zweig | May 10, 2019 11:00 a.m. ET Benjamin Graham, the father of value investing, would have been 125 years old this week. The idea he fostered—buy cheap stocks and hold them for superior long-term returns—is looking geriatric, too.....
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Image Credit: Charles T. Munger examining a campus map, June 2015 (courtesy Peter D. Kaufman) By Jason Zweig and Nicole Friedman | May 3, 2019 9:59 p.m. ET Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Vice Chairman Charlie Munger, 95, spoke to Wall Street Journal reporters Nicole Friedman and Jason Zweig for six hours over dinner in his Los Angeles home on April 23. He...
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