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We discuss:
- What to make of the coronavirus and its potential impact
- The stock market sell-off
- The wild move in interest rates
- Is a recession the base case now?
- How does this affect the travel industry?
- Is it time to cancel your vacation?
- Putting this correction into historical perspective
- Are losses easier or harder to deal with when you have certain uncertainty?
- Are Vanguard investors smarter than the pros?
- Bill Gates on the coronavirus
- The Reddit market top?
- Dow 40k license plates
- Monetary heresy as the biggest threat to humanity?
- Blinded by working in the finance industry
- Has social media changed how young people answer surveys?
- How closely do mortgage rates track treasury bonds?
- Time to replace Jack Dorsey at Twitter?
- Individual securities or index funds during a downturn?
- What if you invested in the Nasdaq at the peak of the dot-com bubble?
- Taylow Swift vs. Craig Kilborn and much more
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Stories mentioned:
- Coronavirus: what are the chances of dying?
- Worried about the stock market drop? Don’t panic
- What happens to stocks after a big down month?
- The pros have to sell now. You don’t
- Responding to Covid-19
- OECD tourism data
- Reddit traders shaking up the market
- Will central banks trigger the next recession?
- Elliot Management’s Paul Singer seeks to replace Twitter’s Jack Dorsey
- Dow 40k license plates
- PE and VC managers surprised at how damn easy it is to make money
- The agony and the ecstasy
Books mentioned:
- My book is on sale at Amazon this week for 40% off for the hardcover and the audible version is also now available.
- The Hot Hand by Ben Cohen
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