ArtLung Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
What A Bear Market Might Teach Us is well worth reading. So I know what it means to scrimp and save, to do more with less, even to do without. The most important lesson that I learned, I believe, is that money is not wealth. Benjamin Graham once wrote that the secret to happiness is learning [...]
The Mess That Greenspan Made (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
In the shocker of all shockers, Money Magazine and Wall Street Journal financial writer Jason Zweig didn't bash gold as an investment after being provided with the perfect opportunity to do so when he recently appeared on the PBS Nightly Business Report . For many, many months (perhaps years) Mr. Zweig has dismissed the yellow metal as a relic of history, better suited to a period...
kottke (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
After a reader accused WSJ financial columnist Jason Zweig of being "a coddled member of the silver-spoon generation", Zweig set the record straight . I was raised in an old farmhouse on a dirt road in a village of fewer than 100 people in northern New York State, midway between New York City and Montreal. The nearest stoplight was 12 miles away. Because we got our water from...
The Curious Capitalist (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Jason Zweig, one of the best financial journos out there, went to town on conspicuous consumption today. Seriously, until you don't have enough money to take public transportation, do not try to bellyache about your stock-market losses around Jason. His piece, entitled "What a Bear Market Might Teach Us," is part of a burgeoning discourse in [...]
Fool.com (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
Catching the panicAccording to neuroeconomist Jason Zweig, "You can catch other people's emotions as easily as you can catch a cold." And when we're surrounded by hundreds of thousands of investors -- retail and professional -- panicking on 24/7 financial headlines, "today's financial markets … constitute one giant panic-transmission machine."
SeekingAlpha Energy Stocks (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
By Matthew HouganThe weather turned cold in Maine today, and that has me thinking about two things: heating oil and ETFs.Jason Zweig and I were chatting about this some time ago. Does it make sense for a New Englander to hedge the cost of home heating oil using the US Heating Oil ETF (NYSEArca: )?It's a major expense. It takes about 650 gallons to keep my house warm each winter. This...
The Big Picture (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
WSJ’s Larry Light asks Personal Finance columnist, Jason Zweig about the volatility in the market. As Zweig explains, record levels of fluctuations this year have shown more volatility than the previous 10 years combined.
SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Nadav Manham submits: Jason Zweig's "Intelligent Investor" column in last week's WSJ featured some interesting Buffett tidbits: 1) Buffett, whose powers of mental calculation are legendary, confessed that he doesn't know how well Berkshire Hathaway's (BRK.A) portfolio of stocks has done in recent years: Complete Story »
Canadian Capitalist (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
The S&P 500 was down 18% in October and the TSX Composite fell 16% in October. Other equity markets are down sharply as well. The bulls and the bears debate if stocks are the bargain we think. Bottom watching is a favourite sport on Wall Street these days. Jason Zweig writes in Wall Street Journal that [...]
