The Intelligent Investor -Fourth Revised Edition, by Benjamin Graham, with commentary by Jason Zweig

HarperCollins , New York: 2003

In the short term markets are beauty contests, yes, and in the long term they are scales. Graham's classic dissertation on investing, is, alas,  laced with (pop economist and television talking head ) Jason Zweig's commentary which, while not wholly unintelligent, is rendered unreadable by the hand of the pageant judges. Zweig himself may be entirely innocent of it, but some one - or some thing, a software program, perhaps ?   -has processed his comments with the infamous Random Pronoun Generator.  How do copy editors, one wonders, decide which public rest room to use ?  Fortunately I'd read The Intelligent Investor years ago and so won't miss a practical thing, only a bit of  very adult pleasure, after putting this edition down so abruptly on page 17 in Zweig's "Commentary on the Introduction". 

It was the footnote, you see. I say it's spinach, and I say to hell with it. Find another edition, one editorially pristine  - untouched since 1970.

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