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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Image Credit: Crowd of people gather outside the New York Stock Exchange following the Crash of 1929, photo: Library of Congress By Jason Zweig | Oct. 25, 2019 11:00 am ET One of the best ways to make sure the easy gains of the past 10 years haven’t made you complacent is to look back at the Crash of 1929. Ninety years ago this...
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Image Credit: Alex Nabaum By Jason Zweig | Oct. 18, 2019 10:45 am ET If you think your job is tough, try simplifying financial disclosures. A new Securities and Exchange Commission rule requires brokers and financial advisers to describe their services, fees and conflicts of interest in “plain English” and a maximum of four pages....
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Image Credit: Alex Nabaum By Jason Zweig | Oct. 11, 2019 12:28 pm ET What would Jesus buy? That question is spreading in the investing world, as evangelicals and other Christians seek investment management and financial planning to match their interpretation of biblical principles. The latest sign of the rise of faith-based...
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