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The Compound and Friends

The Stock Market is Heartless

Jan 8, 2021
53:33

Stocks soar to record highs as an armed insurrection invades Capitol Hill and millions of Americans remain susceptible to the worst pandemic in a century. How? How is this possible?Josh's guest is Allison Schrager, an economist, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, contributing editor at City Journal, co-founder of LifeCycle Finance Partners, LLC and the author of the book An Economist Walks Into a Brothel. Allison writes about risk, reward, retirement systems, pensions, the economy and political policies that affect all of our lives.

You can subscribe to her letter, Known Unknowns, here: https://www.allisonschrager.com/


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