Ryan Knudson

Thanks for listening.

See you Monday.

Would you mind introducing yourself?

And what makes you so intelligent, Jason Zweig?

Jason is no dummy.

He writes one of The Wall Street Journal's most popular columns, called The Intelligent Investor, where he gives readers advice on how to think about their investments.

And for Jason, intelligent investing comes down to a few basic principles.

Jason's job is to guide those investors.

And today, he's going to take some questions to set us on the right path for 2026.

Are you ready?

I'm ready.

Welcome to The Journal, our show about money, business, and power.

I'm Ryan Knudson.

It's Monday, January 12th.

Coming up on the show, how to navigate the stock market intelligently in 2026.

So I tried to look this up before we spoke.

You've been writing this column since 2008-ish?

Yep.

So the one thing that I feel like is a theme that cuts across all of your columns over these years is that the best thing you can do as an investor is to just buy the market and hold it for the long run.

Would you still say that's true?