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William Bernstein on The Delusions of Crowds | #346

The Meb Faber Show - Better Investing

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How Do We Get Into These Delusions?

The author says that we are people with stone age minds living in a space age world. We evolved ten thousand yearsago when there were certain behaviors that got selected, he writes. The ability to imitate in a state of nature is extremely useful and get selected for by the human species,. Unfortunately, in the financial world, as we both know, imitation is death. There's nothing more pleasing than the idea you're going to get effortlessly rich, or that you'regoing to be saved than everybody else's gone to help.

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