Editor’s Note: This interview was conducted April 8, 2025, and the book “The Best of Jonathan Clements Classic Columns on Money and Life” has now been published. Jason Zweig: I’ll try to do it without ...

When I was an analyst in Morningstar’s manager research group in the mid-1990s, I made a habit of reading The Wall Street Journal from cover to cover. I wasn’t a business or finance major in college, ...