Image Credit: Alex Nabaum By Jason Zweig | Nov. 15, 2019 11:00 am ET An ad pops up on your phone. There’s your favorite NBA superstar at the foul line. Positioning himself for a free throw, he looks into the camera: “I’ve known Caesar Cash for years. He’s a straight shooter, just like me.” He fires the...
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Image Credit: T.W. Ingersoll, stereograph, “Dancing the maypole dance,” ca. 1900, Strong National Museum of Play via Google Arts & Culture By Jason Zweig | Nov. 10, 2019 I’ve got a long history with emerging markets. In 1979-80, I lived in the Middle East; in 1985, I traveled roughly 3,500 miles through...
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Image Credit: Alex Nabaum By Jason Zweig | Nov. 8, 2019 11:00 am ET Emerging markets have finally emerged — by one measure, anyway. It’s not that companies whose shares trade on the stock markets of developing nations have been generating great returns lately. Instead, they’ve adopted at least one major characteristic...
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Image Credit: “Women holding parts of the first four Army computers,” 1962, Wikimedia Commons Readers always surprise me. I thought my column two weeks ago, on the Crash of 1929, would provoke a flood of tweets and comments and emails saying “That could never happen again!” Almost nobody said that. Instead, many readers claimed that...
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Image Credit: Alex Nabaum By Jason Zweig | Nov. 1, 2019 10:57 am ET Future returns on stocks may well be lower than the past decade’s lavish annual average of nearly 14%. Even so, we should thank our lucky stars for living at a time when we can capture nearly all the return stocks produce. That wasn’t always the case. Until...
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