MiB: Ellen Zentner on being “the calm voice in the room.”
Ellen Zentner, the chief U.S. economist at Morgan Stanley, discusses how the US presidential election has impacted the firm’s global...
The Unpersuadables: Your Mental Models of Investing
Our Inner Investing World Doesn’t Reflect Reality We tell ourselves stories about how things work that may be at odds with how they...
Redefining Bull and Bear Markets
How to Spot a Bull or Bear Market Defining a market by percentage changes doesn’t offer the insight needed to make...
Cashin on the Cuban Missile Crisis / North Korea
The North Korea situation reminded me of a story told by the great Art Cashin (I have heard him tell various versions of this – but...
MiB: Matt Wallaert is “Chief Behavioral Officer”
This week, we chat with Matt Wallaert, a behavioral psychologist and entrepreneur who was formerly a director at Microsoft Ventures....
Is Free Will a Myth?
‘Societal conditioning’ might sound like either a grim Orwellian brainwashing technique or a fancy new way to wash your hair,...
What I Learned At Camp Kotok This Year
10 Things I Learned at Summer Camp A few observations after spending most of the past week in the north woods with some smart and...
How Many Deaths Are Newsworthy. . .?
This is a fascinating topic, revealing some bias on that part of the media that is best described as “If it bleeds it leads.”...