Wall Street Journal- Subscribe to it Today
Written: Jun 27 '04
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Pros: Mandatory for the consummate businessman, or anyone else interested in making money.
Cons: Has a slight Republican slant in its editorials.
The Bottom Line: The WSJ is a brilliant paper explaining everything about business and finance, despite its Republican slant. Highly recommended for those who want to learn to make money.
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| quipowerty's Full Review: Wall Street Journal |
This former subscriber to the New York Times had to cancel his subscription because of the fact I wasn't reading any of the papers. The NY Times has a daily business section in one of its folders, and that part was my favorite section, along with the International and National Sections, plus the weekly Real Estate Section. But everything else was boring for me, and I didn’t like its bleeding-heart stance.
One day, my mom (who works in a US Post Office) brought along a Wall Street Journal paper that she and her employees get free in the office. I read the paper for a few minutes and was quickly engrossed by it. Within a month, I had subscribed to it and get it delivered to my door for the usual fee; I also get extra free copies from my mom almost every week.
No one disputes that the WSJ is mostly a business-type paper. Its most prominent customers and both executives and employees of large corporations such as Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan Chase, CitiGroup, AOL Time Warner, and so on. It features stock market numbers, particularly from Dow Jones and Nasdaq, from the previous day. It has detailed articles concerning the present state of mutual funds and securities firms. It can be tough to understand the business language unless one learns to understand the basics of the business world, how people make deals, and how much money is involved. But I found it relatively, well, exciting, if a little complicated.
The WSJ has several weekday sections; the weekday sections include sections such as Marketplace, which also has frequent and detailed articles on biotechnology, lifestyle changes, current fashion trends, and some aspects of the entertainment industry not related to NYSE numbers. Then there’s Money & Investing, where one learns the little nooks and crannies of how to make money the proper way with various business practices- without committing fraud that is. Then there’s the Personal Journal, which gives details about such things as personal health, movie and theater musical reviews, and even the newest brands of vacuum cleaners. You can’t get any more businesslike than this.
The editorial sections, personally they're my favorite section because of their thoughful comments and often hilarious take on things, could be described as a little ehhh… Republican. The writers and columnists on it are mostly pro-business, and anti-welfare so to speak. Those who write on it tend to be against big government, pointing out its many flaws. It also speaks out against celeb irregularities and immaturity; one editorial pointed out how Michael Jackson’s irregular attempt to hold onto his youth turned him into a disgusting caricature of himself, more famous for his erratic personality than for his music.
The one thing the WSJ lacks is a glossary defining words like securities, mutual funds, and distribution points. But take the time to read it and you'll know the meanings of those terms soon. And so far it has shown no signs of plagiarism scandals or authoritarian bosses like the Times (snicker). Subscribe to it today.
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Describe the newspaper's political views: It is conservative
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