
Spencer Jakab
@spencerjakab
I rite good. Formerly WSJ Heard on the Street Global Editor, now @WSJ investing newsletter guy (sign up link in bio).
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https://www.wsj.com/newsletters/markets-am?mod=article_inline 27-01-2009 20:27:51
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Heard on the Street: For years, UnitedHealth Group’s financial reporting has been a black box. That needs to change. | My latest, with David Wainer The Wall Street Journal Heard on the Street $UNH wsj.com/health/healthc…



"Today, because of hydraulic fracturing, the U.S. has net exports of about 2.5 barrels per capita and is also the world’s largest seller of liquefied natural gas." - Spencer Jakab wsj.com/business/energ…







With bidding wars for #AI companies and talent in the news almost every day, is the next trillion-dollar opportunity being overlooked? Please be kind & rewind to when a dominant co missed a huge opportunity and another agreed to the worst deal in history. marketsam.cmail19.com/t/d-e-skkidul-…

Heard on the Street: Who’s irrational now? It turns out dividends matter a lot more than finance professors once believed, writes Spencer Jakab on.wsj.com/449x9kj

Heard on the Street: When Rep. Elise Stefanik sought an investigation into Harvard’s financial disclosures to bondholders, she might as well have fired a bazooka at the entire private-equity industry | My latest Heard on the Street The Wall Street Journal wsj.com/finance/invest…

"The Shiller P/E ratio—a reliable long-term gauge—is pricier than it has been all but 4% of the time." Spencer Jakab


Why Investors Are Right to Love Dividends Thank you Spencer Jakab for stating it so succinctly. “The original research on dividends was kind of right—there is nothing special about them. But the companies that pay them often are special.” wsj.com/finance/invest…

This is really good from Matt Levine on tokenization. If we're totally cool with people trading equity in "private" companies, because it's on-chain, then eventually it seems possible that in the future we don't have IPOs or even standardized disclosure for any company at all.


We are extremely concerned by comments allegedly made by Columbia University President Shipman. Although she has reportedly apologized privately, we hope that she will publicly apologize and acknowledge the impact of her comments to perpetuate a hostile climate on campus for the Jewish


