One of the pens behind the press
Elias Wong
Money & Investing
Elias Wong believes good investing is mostly good temperament. Writing with a global lens, he makes markets, valuation and the long game of compounding clear enough for a first-time investor and useful enough for an old hand.
8 books in print · 15 journal pieces
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Books by Elias Wong
Ballots Before Bulls
How U.S. Midterms and Market Cycles Became Entangled
Who Carries the Loss
Insurance, Risk and the Price of Peace of Mind
A Loan Is a Calendar
How Borrowing Moves Cost, Time, and Choice
What the Balance Forgot
Paydays, Bills, Borrowing and the Money Between
Price Is Not a Promise
What You Own, What You Risk, and What the Numbers Leave Out
The Ledger of Enough
Money & Investing
What the Numbers Remember
Forty Annual Reports, One Small Company, and the Quiet Art of Reading a Business
The Long Patience
How Money Grows, Why Markets Rise and Fall, and the Quiet Mathematics of Compounding
Elias Wong in the journal
- Read Your Policy on a Dry Day
- The Figure Lower Down the Page
- Friday's Balance, Tuesday's Bills
- What the Number on the Screen Cannot Tell You
- Compounding is boring on purpose
- The Federal Reserve meets on 28 October, and I plan to sit on my hands
- The US stock market keeps hitting records, and that is precisely when temperament is on trial
- The strange arithmetic of a thing getting cheaper
- Compounding is mostly waiting, and nobody tells you that part
- The stock market had a loud week and went almost nowhere
- The reason, written before the result
- A reader asks what I do at the weekend