Jason Zweig ✓

@jasonzweigwsj · The Wall Street Journal · joined 10 Nov 2009

Investing columnist for @WSJ. Editor, Benjamin Graham's *The Intelligent Investor.* Author, *Your Money and Your Brain* and *The Devil's Financial Dictionary.*

234 510Followers

2 403Following

25 824Posts total

56.9KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. ordinary reach for its size, weaker reaction than most.

Median views4 006this account4 116median for 100K–1M

Reach, %1.71%this account1.71%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.21%this account1.47%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	4 006	4 116	0.97×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	1.71%	1.71%	1.00×
Engagement rate	0.21%	1.47%	0.14×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

7.5K2 Sep

7.4K4 Sep

32.7K

603

7.9K

314

4395 Sep

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.05%2 Sep

0.27%4 Sep

0.15%

0.33%

0.09%

1.47%

0.00%

0.91%5 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.47%.

What the audience does

Likes43.9%61 in total

Reposts4.3%6 in total

Replies10.8%15 in total

Quotes3.6%5 in total

Bookmarks37.4%52 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

@jasonzweigwsj @WSJ This comment by Professor Whitelaw isn’t factually correct. It’s not if stocks have positive expected returns… it’s if stocks (after fees) have positive expected returns relative to their borrowing costs (which is approaching ~4%) and if that net return doesn’ 439 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 05 Sep 2026 @jasonzweigwsj "All writing is re-writing." 314 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 @jasonzweigwsj @WSJ The mechanic that gets skipped: they target a multiple of the daily return, not the return over your holding period. Because the reset is daily, the path compounds. A round trip of -10% then +11.1% puts the index back at even; three times the daily move does 68 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 This is my life, every week. 😜 https://t.co/gkLSlY1A0N 7.9K views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 04 Sep 2026 @jasonzweigwsj @WSJ Can someone do a wellness check on Jason? I think he might have been kidnapped, and someone took over his account. 603 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 04 Sep 2026 My latest: The newest defense of leveraged ETFs doesn’t hold water for most investors, writes @jasonzweigwsj https://t.co/3iLW2VcbW6 via @WSJ 32.7K views · 33 likes · 3 reposts · 8 replies 04 Sep 2026 Smart retirement-savings strategies can save a lot of taxes, if you can take advantage of them. Here’s some ways to play the retirement tax guessing game. https://t.co/RbPEu89X1P via @WSJ 7.4K views · 14 likes · 3 reposts · 3 replies 04 Sep 2026 Live shot of Alexander Hamilton learning about U.S. fiscal policy today https://t.co/pqcdCcQhkM 7.5K views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 ICYMI: Saving Investors from Themselves https://t.co/kioB90Fw7S https://t.co/GnIQ5Swfky 0 views · 680 likes · 241 reposts · 184 replies 06 Dec 2016