Bill Power
@BillPowerWSJ
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Dad, husband, Wall Street Journal editor. Drummer in WSJ house band. Future Phillies tour guide.
Joined June 2009
My favorite thing in this article was the Tiffany guy who engraves the Super Bowl trophies! (We set out to find the longest-tenured workers inside some of the biggest and best-known U.S. companies) https://t.co/NZkVeM5e2O via @WSJ
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A small number of employees at the largest companies have stayed in one job for decades, making them witnesses to the often-surprising evolution of work.
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The average U.S. stock fund was up 0.9% in October, or 12% for the year. Large-cap funds, driven by tech stocks, have fared even better. https://t.co/QYMjvWyeGj via @WSJ
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The year’s rally in tech stocks continued to boost large-cap growth funds. Plus: A Financial Flashback to “Dow 5000.”
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The latest Wall Street Journal stylebook bulletin provides some history, and current thinking, on “Department of War” https://t.co/AvNRQPgOcE via @WSJ🔓
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In the latest Wall Street Journal stylebook bulletin, a note on the revival of an old name for what is still officially the Defense Department.
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My latest for WSJ (this is just a fun one for our USA250 coverage). A legume with legs? An umbrella girl? Do you recognize the advertising icon and the brand? https://t.co/dObsgx8DTE via @WSJ
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Some of the most familiar advertising icons go back to the 1800s. How many do you recognize?
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Clements was the best. He kept writing about personal finance right to the end, giving advice on preparing one’s affairs before death https://t.co/v5h3bsExiE via @WSJ
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He wrote more than 1,000 personal-finance columns for the Journal and was a favorite of readers.
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When Marilyn Hagerty wrote about the new Olive Garden restaurant in Grand Forks, N.D., in 2012, she never expected to go viral. She didn’t even know what viral meant. A sweet obit (of his own mom) by my colleague James (Bob) Hagerty https://t.co/rmzAQt6Iey via @WSJ
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It was a simpler time online, her son recalls—and his no-nonsense mother broke through the noise for all the right reasons
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U.S. money has had hits and misses, from the first currency issued before the Revolution. Remember the failed Susan B. Anthony dollar coin? I had fun writing this for our USA250 coverage https://t.co/jSWyD62jnF via @WSJ
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Here’s a selection of paper money and coins from the past 250 years, right up through this era’s planned greenbacks.
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Remember in 2000 when baseball players and managers started using Nasdaq analogies? With markets at highs again, and playoffs coming, here's a flashback to 25 years ago, one of my favorite A-hed stories, by @GZuckerman
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Remember in 2000 when baseball players and managers started using Nasdaq analogies? With markets at highs again, and playoffs coming, here's a flashback to 25 years ago, one of my favorite A-hed stories, by @GZuckerman
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An amazing article to read and look at. Not something our WSJ could have imagined presenting online in the old days
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Six million antelope storm through a pocket of Africa that’s nearly impossible to get to, but the Journal caught them on camera. “The entire planet should be amazed that this exists.”
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Most fund investors can feel good about the year so far, assuming interest rates go down https://t.co/iNGWC0VdeA via @WSJ
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The xx% gain in August keeps the positive times rolling. Plus: A Financial Flashback to 95 years ago, the Wall Street bombing of 1920.
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Financial flashback: 95 years ago, the terrorist bombing on Wall Street. This is how we covered it, as described in our monthly funds-investing wrap https://t.co/MW6cloqA60
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Getting ready for America's 250th birthday next year... The Journal has started publishing gems like this as part of a yearlong package (which my department is editing) on how we got here... A big print report is coming, too https://t.co/gZi8UgCHJS via @WSJ
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He led the effort to raise the money the fledgling country needed to survive and win the war. It’s hard to imagine anybody else could have succeeded.
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HAPPY LABOR DAY: “What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn’t have done it.” —Mark Twain
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What’s a mogul? Someone who shows up only in news articles. This and more for journalism/grammar nerds in my monthly WSJ stylebook bulletin https://t.co/kEIzfDkUtf via @WSJ🔓
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In the monthly WSJ stylebook bulletin: Journalists love certain words that none of us use in real life.
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Compared with earlier in the year, the stock market is calm and healthy. But what’s on the horizon? (This also includes our FInancial Flashback to 25 years ago--the start of decimal pricing!) https://t.co/8sJwjBO9Iz via @WSJ
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In relative calm, a 1.7% average gain in July pushed the year-to-date advance to 5.4%. Plus: A Financial Flashback to 25 years ago, the shift to decimal pricing for stocks.
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Pretty cool on all levels
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The WSJ stylebook has evolved over the years on the use of profanity. In this era of rude talk, it seems time to turn back to a classier feel. https://t.co/UsmUILsgwy via @WSJ🔓
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The Wall Street Journal’s stylebook emphasizes that vulgarities shouldn’t be spelled out in full. Use a long dash, which we call the Barney dash.
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Today marks 136 years of The Wall Street Journal. On July 8, 1889, @WSJ was first published by Charles Henry Dow, Edward Davis Jones and Charles Bergstresser from a small office in lower Manhattan. The newspaper was four pages long and sold for two cents. HBD, Cancer! 🥳
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Would you believe that four mutual funds are up 70%-plus in the past year? Overall, U.S.-stock funds still trail their international counterparts for the year to date, but they made up ground in a furious rally in the second quarter https://t.co/zDwqjPLsdk via @WSJ
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Markets rebounded from tariff tumult but bond funds still drew the cash. Plus: A Financial Flashback to 30 years ago, when Nasdaq crossed 1000.
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