On a recent episode of WealthTrack, Consuelo Mack interviewed financial journalists Jason Zweig and James Grant regarding the lagging performance of value stocks and the pressure to move to passive…
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Zweig: "Smart" Money is Bailing on U.S. Stocks
Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Zweig writes that while data shows how the S&P 500 has outperformed international stocks for years, the numbers can “play tricks on you. It still…
Everyone Makes Mistakes, Including Warren Buffett
In last month’s Wall Street Journal, columnist Jason Zweig recently wrote, “If I had to write one sentence that is true always and everywhere, it would be this: Smart investors…
How Companies Fool Investors with Profits Fad
Companies may be worth less than investors think, writes columnist Jason Zweig in a recent Wall Street Journal article. Zweig explains that investors look to earnings-per-share to assess corporate profits…
Industries Concentrate and Investors Profit
By Justin J. Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) — At Berkshire’s Hathaway’s annual meeting, Warren Buffett announced he had purchased approximately 75 million additional shares of Apple. Apple is already Berkshire’s largest holding,…
Are Index Funds as Cheap as You Think?
In a recent Wall Street Journal article, columnist Jason Zweig rebuts an argument that index fund expenses are drastically understated. The argument comes from veteran value investor David Winters, portfolio…
Will Tech Stocks Continue Their Rapid Growth?
In a recent Wall Street Journal article, columnist Jason Zweig talks about the growth in tech stocks and the outlook for their continued upward trend. “At their lows this week,”…
Zweig on Buffett and Bitcoin
Author and columnist Jason Zweig says that successful investors–such as Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger–can set aside emotions, according to a recent CNBC article. At the recent Evidence-Based Investing conference…
Are You Prepared for a Stock Market Crash?
Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Zweig takes us back 30 years to Friday, October 1987 when the stock market fell “a record 108.35 points on unprecedented volume of nearly 339…
Zweig: Income Investors Shouldn't Get Desperate
Investors feverishly searching for yield in today’s market—”with stocks at record highs and the income on bonds not far from record lows”–are showing signs of desperation, according to columnist Jason…