The unaided human mind is almost at a complete loss faced with the decisions that the markets throw at us to day. It just doesn't seem to me that as a group, we humans, have learned anything efficacious in terms of helping us avoid these problems. I think i understand it better now than i did when i started out but we still have a lot left to learn. And that's why i still show up for work. The thing that fascinated me above all is, i think,the same question that jim has been asking about one way or another several times already: Why do smart people do stupid things with their money? There is no definitive answer to that. But
In this episode of Infinite Loops we spoke with Jason Zweig of The Wall Street Journal, where he writes his famous The Intelligent Investor column. Jason is also the author of Your Money and Your Brain, and the editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham''s The Intelligent Investor. In this discussion we cover:
- The power of writing to learn.
- Why humans never learn from their mistakes.
- Jason’s path into markets out of college.
- The lessons we can learn from the past.
- And much more
Follow Jason on Twitter (https://twitter.com/jasonzweigwsj) and check out his website (https://jasonzweig.com).