This is the website of journalist and author Spencer Jakab. I write Markets A.M., the Wall Street Journal’s (free, for now) investing newsletter. Before that I spent many years as global editor of “Heard on the Street,” the Journal’s financial and economic analysis column. Previous roles include writing “Lex” for Britain’s Financial Times.
My first career was in finance. I lived in Europe for a decade, mostly working as an emerging markets analyst and later the head of a research team at a big bank. I learned a lot, traveled to some cool places, but got bored with corporate life and decided to write about money instead of making so darn much of it.
Most of what I know about the world of finance was picked up on the job or through reading but, for what it’s worth, I earned a master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia University, a certificate from Columbia’s Harriman Institute, and a B.A. in political science from Brandeis University.
I can be reached at spencer.jakab (at) wsj.com and followed on Twitter or on Linkedin. I also write an occasional Substack newsletter, The Hungarian Contrarian, much of which I cross-post here when I remember to do it.
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