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Zweig's book "skewers the plutocrats and bureaucrats who gave us exploding mortgages, freakish risks, and banks too big to fail. And it distills the complexities, absurdities, and pomposities of Wall Street into plain truths and aphorisms anyone can understand. [A] ... survival guide to the hostile wilderness of today's financial markets, [this book] delivers practical insights with a scorpion's sting"--
About the author
Jason Zweig became a personal finance columnist for the
Wall Street Journal in 2008. He was a senior writer for
Money and a guest columnist for
Time and CNN.com. He is the author of
Your Money and Your Brain, one of the first books to explore the neuroscience of investing. Zweig is also the editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's
The Intelligent Investor, the classic text that Warren Buffett has described as "by far the best book about investing ever written."
Before joining
Money in 1995, Zweig was the mutual funds editor at
Forbes. Earlier, he had been a reporter-researcher for the Economy & Business section of
Time and an editorial assistant at Africa Report, a bimonthly journal. A frequent commentator on television and radio, Zweig is also a popular public speaker who has addressed the American Association of Individual Investors, the Aspen Institute, the CFA Institute, the Morningstar Investment Conference, and university audiences at Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford.
Zweig was for many years a trustee of the Museum of American Finance, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution. He serves on the editorial boards of Financial History magazine and the Journal of Behavioral Finance.
Summary
The brilliant, witty, "savagely amusing" distillation of financial knowledge into pithy aphorisms that contain "snark and insight" ... by the Wall Street Journal columnist and co-author/reviser of the million-copy-seller The Intelligent Investor
Foreword
The brilliant, witty, "savagely amusing" distillation of financial knowledge into pithy aphorisms that contain "snark and insight" ... by the Wall Street Journal columnist and co-author/reviser of the million-copy-seller The Intelligent Investor
