Image Credit: Alex Nabaum By Jason Zweig | Updated Nov. 22, 2019 11:07 am ET The best time to get interested in an investing strategy is when its performance is at its worst. By that standard, commodities are starting to look intriguing. These assets — oil and gas, corn and wheat, cattle and hogs, nickel and tin, silver and gold...
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Image Credit: “Be Not Wise in Thine Own Eyes,” engraving, Currier & Ives (1872), Library of Congress Dec. 1, 2019 | 4:06 pm ET The most dangerous of all people is the fool who thinks he is brilliant. I should know: That describes me at age 18, arriving at Columbia University for my first week of college. And, I have no doubt,...
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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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