MiB: Barbara Tversky, Cognitive Psychologist
This week, we speak with Barbara Tversky, professor of psychology at Stanford and Columbia University, and the author of more than 200...
Dow 30,000 & the Magazine Cover Indicator
Source: Birinyi Associates, Inc. I wanted to post a reminder about what the “Magazine Cover Indicator” is and...
Forget Happiness; Think Satisfaction
Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation via WaPo The past week, I have been writing about making smarter spending decisions,...
Learning from a Bad Trade
A Bad Bear Stearns Trade Can Teach Investors a Lot It doesn’t have to take a decade to learn some valuable lessons. Bloomberg, January...
Reasons to Sell Stocks
Source: Irrelevant Investor From Michael Batnick: “The fact that bad news travels ten times faster than good...
How Things Go Viral
Derek Thompson stops by The Compound to discuss how and why things go viral with Me and Michael. Derek is a staff writer at The Atlantic...
A Conversation with Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler
Traditional economics assumes rational actors. In daily decision-making, however, we all make decisions influenced by our biases and...
Morgan Housel: Investor’s Biggest Mistakes
Morgan Housel drops by the Compound to discuss some of the biggest mistakes and misconceptions that plague investors year after year...
How to Talk to Your FoxNews Loving Relatives at Thanksgiving!
How to Talk to a Fox News Viewer Those on the Left need to stop ignoring the science of Influence & Persuasion TBP, November 22, 2018...
Powerball Mentality
Gene Fama’s discussion earlier this week made me revisit some ideas on outperformance and the zero sum game. In particular, the...