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Investing 2: Index Funds & The Bet

Planet Money Summer School

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The Challenges of Actively Picking Stocks

The challenges of actively picking sto apply also to people who do it for a living, to the professionals. If you're a regular person and not a well compensated professional invest you're getting a better deal buying an index fund. Allison: I love this because it suggests that the rest of us who invest passively are benefiting from a small minority of heavily deluded investors.

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