Image Credit: Alex Nabaum By Jason Zweig | Updated Jan. 24, 2020 3:47 pm ET A few days ago, a smart 22-year-old asked me how to invest some savings from her first job. I advised her to open an individual retirement account. When she found out she couldn’t withdraw it without penalty until she turns 59 1/2, she shot back:...
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Image Credit: F. Martin Ramin By Jason Zweig | Jan. 10, 2020 11:36 am ET Pop quiz: Name the giant store whose customers scoff at whatever goes on sale, but flock to buy whatever costs the most. It isn’t a supermarket. It’s the stock market — especially over the past decade, when value stocks have moldered in the...
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Image credit: Olivetti “Valentine” typewriter, Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney, Australia, via Google Arts & Culture Jan. 3, 2020 | 10:10am ET One of my New Year’s resolutions is to clean out my old filing cabinets. Yes, those hulking beige metal drawers, full of manila folders stuffed with musty, tattered,...
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