Thread: Dump the WSJ?
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Old 07-08-2009, 10:49 PM   #86
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Originally Posted by lsbcal View Post
That sounds like me, but it was the DW cooking. Now I've figured it all out (index funds are kind of neat that way) and don't need the WSJ .
a few months ago one of the WSJ financial reporters was retiring from the paper and he was permitted to write whatever he wanted as a last article, which apparently is a tradition for departing reporters.

one of the things he said was that his impression after reporting on the financial sector for many years was that the simple strategy of buying and holding an index fund was the way to go.
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