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Revision as of 00:27, 7 February 2026
Spencer Jakab is an American author and journalist. He is the editor Heard on the Street for the Wall Street Journal. He formerly wrote the Ahead of the Tape column for the Journal and the Lex Column for the Financial Times. Before his career as a journalist, he was an analyst and then a director of emerging markets equity research at Credit Suisse.[1]
Early life and education
Jakab graduated from Brandeis University in 1991.[2]
Career
Jakab started at the Wall Street Journal in ___ where he wrote the Ahead of the Tape column until 2015. He then became the newspaper’s deputy editor of the Heard on the Street column in 2015 and then editor in 2019. In February 2025, Jakab was named the paper’s investing columnist.[3]
Books
- The Revolution That Wasn’t: GameStop, Reddit and the Fleecing of Small Investors (Portfolio, 2022)[4][5]
- Heads I Win, Tails I Win: Why Smart Investors Fail and How to Tilt the Odds in Your Favor (Penguin/Portfolio, 2016)[6]
