• Summon Your Courage and Buy Stocks

    Investors who conquer stock-phobia have an edge over those too focused on their rearview mirror By Jason Zweig 2025: Oct. 4, 2008 12:01 am ET During the Great…

Latest articles

  • Thought of the Day

    Thought of the Day

    2000: Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.

    –Proverbs 28: 6.
Money in Art, Money in Culture
Book Icon

Books

Jason is the author of “Your Money and Your Brain,” on the neuroscience of investing, and 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.”

Discover more

Recent Books

Today in Financial History

1568: One of the earliest known junk bonds is issued, as the Russia Co. borrows 4,000 pounds, 8 shillings, and 10 pence from the British exchequer. The loan is priced to yield 13.5%, and the company must repay it not with cash, but with hundreds of tons of cables and rope — making it one of the earliest "asset-backed" loans as well.

T.S. Willan, The Early History of the Russia Company, 1553-1603 (Manchester Univ. Press, Manchester, UK, 1968), p. 44.