Spencer Jakab

New York

Investing Columnist at The Wall Street Journal

Founder and Author at TheHungarianContrarian

I rite good. Global editor of @WSJ Heard on the Street column.

Articles

The Most Profitable Dividend Strategy Is the Simplest

5 days ago | wsj.com | Spencer Jakab

Investors have piled into funds offering variations on dividend investing, but one of the easiest methods has produced the highest returnThis column originally appeared in the WSJ’s Markets A.M. newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it in your inbox every weekday. It’s one of the most successful investing strategies, but you can easily do better. Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8Subscribe NowAlready a subscriber? Sign In
The Most Profitable Dividend Strategy Is the Simplest

5 days ago | finance.yahoo.com | Spencer Jakab

Investors have piled into funds offering variations on dividend investing, but one of the easiest methods has produced the highest return.
从新台币巨震看贸易战给美国带来的危险

6 days ago | cn.wsj.com | Spencer Jakab

在外国投资者眼中，美国资产尤其是美国国债是非常安全的，其违约概率可能连一百万亿分之一都不到，但本周新台币兑美元的“核爆式”飙升却给人们拉响了警报。台湾人口与佛罗里达州大致相当，陆地面积约为后者四分之一。对于这个实行民主制度的既小又遥远的岛屿，美国人多半只知道两件事：一，这个地方可能成为美国和中国爆发军事冲突的导火索，中国一直将台湾视为自己的一个叛离省份；二，台湾是半导体领域的大佬。Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8立即订阅热门文章热门视频
You Have a Message From Taiwan

1 week ago | wsj.com | Spencer Jakab

This is an online version of our Markets A.M. newsletter by Spencer Jakab. Get investing insights in your inbox each weekday by signing up here—it’s free. With about the same population as Florida, and a fourth of its land area, the island democracy is a small and faraway place. Americans mostly know it for two things—as a possible military flashpoint between the U.S. and China, which considers it a rogue province, and as the dominant force in semiconductors.
I Picked The Wrong Month To Stop Sniffing Glue

1 week ago | spencerjakab.substack.com | Spencer Jakab

Back when I was in elementary school in the late 1970s, what my friends and I wanted to be when we grew up came up from time-to-time. The number one answer by far was “photographer for Playboy,” followed by drummer for KISS. A few degenerates wanted to be lawyers. Now that I’m middle-aged, I understand that the best job in the world is one that provides a decent living without feeling like work—one you’d still show up to do tomorrow if you won the lottery.
You’re More Like Warren Buffett Than You Think

1 week ago | finance.yahoo.com | Spencer Jakab

Unlock stock picks and a broker-level newsfeed that powers Wall Street. Spencer Jakab Mon, May 5, 2025, 4:00 AM 3 min read Warren Buffett at the world premiere of the HBO film ‘Becoming Warren Buffett’ in 2017. - Nancy Kaszerman/Zuma Press This column originally appeared in the WSJ’s Markets A.M. newsletter. to receive it in your inbox every weekday. Suggesting you can invest like Warren Buffett sounds crazy.
You’re More Like Warren Buffett Than You Think

1 week ago | wsj.com | Spencer Jakab

Individual investors have an edge even if some don’t use itThis column originally appeared in the WSJ’s Markets A.M. newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it in your inbox every weekday. Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8Subscribe NowAlready a subscriber? Sign In
What the Jobs Report Won’t Tell Us

1 week ago | wsj.com | Spencer Jakab

This is an online version of our Markets A.M. newsletter by Spencer Jakab. Get investing insights in your inbox each weekday by signing up here—it’s free. Last month an AI-generated video went viral on Chinese TikTok showing sad, bored American workers sewing underwear and assembling cellphones. Its mean-spirited message was that Americans really aren’t up to the drudgery of making the stuff they buy.
Slowdown at the Drive-Thru

1 week ago | wsj.com | Spencer Jakab

This is an online version of our Markets A.M. newsletter by Spencer Jakab. Get investing insights in your inbox each weekday by signing up here—it’s free. This is a big week for economic data, but one of the juiciest nuggets won’t come from the government or even a think tank. This morning’s McDonald’s results could give us superior insight into the consumer. We learned yesterday the economy contracted for the first time in three years, though the data was distorted by a pre-tariff surge in imports.
This Could Be a Lousy Decade for Stocks

2 weeks ago | wsj.com | Spencer Jakab

This is an online version of our Markets A.M. newsletter by Spencer Jakab. Get investing insights in your inbox each weekday by signing up here—it’s free. Investors are worried—just not about the right things. We’ll probably get more evidence this week that tariff uncertainty is weighing on U.S. economic growth. That’s clearly bad for American companies’ sales but, barring an economic calamity, slowdowns on their own have had surprisingly little effect on stock prices in the medium term.