Jason Zweig
Wall Street Journal
New York, NY, United States
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Tech Stocks Are Hot But Cash Is Cool
With the ability to earn north of 5% on your cash, it’s time to rethink your safest investments. → Read More
You’re Giving Away Yield and Don’t Even Know It
Money-market funds have been jacking up their fees in recent months, eating into the returns that savers should be earning. Here’s what to do about it. → Read More
When Bad Things Happen to Good Stocks
Investing in quality stocks seems like a smart move—but the bet on the blue chips hasn’t paid off lately. → Read More
Hoarding Cash? Don’t Swing at Every Yield Pitch
Fintech apps are offering outsize returns on your cash. A look under the hood shows their flashy marketing can hide potential pitfalls, and you won’t always get the same safeguards a regular bank offers. → Read More
Vanguard to Pay $6 Million to Investors Hit With Big Tax Bills
The settlement follows an investigation by Massachusetts securities regulators into changes Vanguard made to its target-date funds. → Read More
How to Stand Up to a Bear Market
Younger investors can treat this year’s steep decline in stocks as a buying opportunity. Older investors may not be able to wait around for a recovery. → Read More
An Old Way to Fight Inflation Gets New Fans
Is it time for the U.S. government to impose price controls on goods like food and fuel? History shows that past attempts to rein in rampant inflation with such measures have sometimes worked—when there’s a national will to see them succeed. → Read More
How to Weather This Stock Market Storm
For some Main Street investors, this year’s decline doesn’t feel like a calamity. It feels like an opportunity. → Read More
How to Face Up to Buying the Dips
Buying stocks as they drop is harder than it sounds. Here’s one strategy that might help keep you on course in turbulent times. → Read More
What to Know if You Want to Buy the Stock Market Dip
The Federal Reserve is giving the stock market a fright as it ramps up its efforts to control inflation. The volatility may last longer than investors have come to expect over the past few decades—but you can still prosper with discipline, patience and courage. → Read More
It’s the Worst Bond Market Since 1842. That’s the Good News.
The four-decade-long bull market in bonds is over, but that doesn’t mean you should dump them. → Read More
Making Your Cash Work Harder as Interest Rates Rise
It’s possible to squeeze a higher return from even your safest assets. Here’s how to do it. → Read More
How to Stop Your Fund Manager From Feeding on Your Cash
As interest rates rise, the benefits are accruing to the people who manage cash, not to the investors who hold it. In the first quarter, the yield on three-month Treasury bills rose 0.46 percentage point. The yield on retail money-market mutual funds rose a measly 0.03 point—while their expenses shot up 0.22 point. → Read More
The Stock Market’s Future Ain’t What It Used to Be
In recent years, investors often got rewarded for taking reckless risks, but in unforgiving markets, it’s harder to recover from mistakes. → Read More
You Work for a Company. Should You Own It, Too?
There’s a new movement afoot to award stock to rank-and-file employees. Similar efforts have been tried before, and have sometimes left low-wage workers worse off. → Read More
The Fed Is on the March. Can Your Bond Fund Keep Up?
Bond investors have been pummeled this year as the central bank has tightened up. Here’s how to think about your portfolio in a period of rising interest rates. → Read More
What Teenagers Really Learn From Stock-Market Games
Successful investors diversify broadly, avoid unnecessary risk and rarely trade. So why are kids getting rewarded for doing the opposite? → Read More
The Secret to Braving a Wild Market
For most of the past decade, investing has required almost no courage at all. That may well be changing. → Read More
Stock Markets Usually Go Up. Sometimes, They Go Away.
Trading on the Moscow stock exchange was suspended this past week. It’s the latest reminder to investors that markets aren’t always liquid. → Read More
How to Invest Calmly in a Chaotic World
You don’t have to act on your own forecasts about global events. You don’t even have to make any. → Read More