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Probability 101: How Not to Be a Sucker
Mind Over Money - September 05, 2019 17:14 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsWe need science and math -- and STEM-savvy minds -- more than ever to help us inform decision making (1:00) - Allergic to Algebra? Harnessing Math for Fun & Profit (7:45) - Probability Skills Immunize Against Those Who Lie with Stats (21:30) - Taleb's Black Swan and the Limits of Standard De...
Boeing 737 MAX and the FAA: A Clash of Culture and Convexity
Mind Over Money - August 22, 2019 18:48 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsAs we await results of NTSB and grand jury investigations, many questions linger about what went wrong (0:45) - Boeing 737 MAX: Did Profit Motive Override Sound Design? (8:15) - Remember the DC-10? How Consumers Handle Shocking Tragedies (14:00) - MCAS Software Enhancement: The Right Solutio...
How to Trade Unicorns Before They IPO
Mind Over Money - August 15, 2019 19:16 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsA growing herd of unicorns and their founders and investors are finding liquidity without rushing to IPO (0:45) - A New Marketplace for Pre-IPO Trading (6:00) - How Forge Creates Value for Unicorns and Investors (8:25) - Innovation with Spotify and Slack: What's a Direct Listing? (12:15) - ...
Facebook Faceplant: First AI Failure, More to Come
Mind Over Money - July 26, 2018 21:49 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsThe greatest accidental experiment in social media has a lot to teach us about taming the AI beast (2:00) - Facebook Flopped and It’s Great! (5:45) - Max Tegmark: Life 3.0 (10:35) - Prometheus Achieves World Domination (16:00) - Taming the Beast that AI Could Become (21:10) - ...
The $100 Billion Cult: Video Gaming & Global Youth Culture
Mind Over Money - July 19, 2018 21:52 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsI’m not crazy about kids wasting hours playing video games, but there has to be a way to profit from it, for all of us (0:30) - Stock-Picking: Better Than Video Games? (4:30) - Fortnite Battle Royale: Free Viral Mania Makes Millions (10:45) - Video Game Industry: Where $100 Billion Comes...
Dopamine and the Weather, Part 2
Mind Over Money - July 12, 2018 20:18 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsHow technology changes human behavior and social rules, but not human nature and genetics—yet. (0:45) - The Century of Biology (8:00) – Wonderful Dopamine: The Attention Drug (21:30) – Memory, Emotion and Learning Complete the Loop (33:00) - Dopamine in the Noisy Concert of Consciousness...
Dopamine and the Weather, Part 1
Mind Over Money - June 28, 2018 22:16 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsHow technology changes human behavior and social rules, but not human nature and genetics—yet. (1:15) - FDA Shares Strategic Vision on Gene Therapies (5:25) - Human Nature: New Science vs. Old Assumptions (12:30) - Steven Pinker: Using Biology to Inform Beliefs (17:40) - How Technology ...
Knowledge, Certainty, and Destiny: How to Keep Up With Science & Technology
Mind Over Money - June 21, 2018 21:19 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsScience is bringing the future to you faster every year and this requires a mind wide open (0:45) - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (5:10) - Meet the Huxleys: Evolution’s Grand Champions (10:15) - The Chaos Theory of Learning & Unstoppable Creativity (16:10) - Books for Mi...
3 Rules of Wealth for Bull Markets
Mind Over Money - June 07, 2018 14:57 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsAt the risk of over-simplifying, I crystallize my favorite principles into lessons for all future bull markets (0:45) - Navigating the Bull Market (6:00) - Following The Smart Money (8:45) - Kevin’s Market Melt-Up Recipe (11:30) - 3 Wealth-Building Rules for Bull Markets (18:00) - A ...
Your Brain On Risk: 8 Questions to Check Your Investing Biases
Mind Over Money - May 30, 2018 21:03 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsWhy do the same bad investing decisions keep cropping up for some people? (1:00) - Are You a Trader or Long Term Investor? (5:00) - A Quiz on Your Psychology of Investing (10:45) - Should You Be Listening To Everything Your Advisor Says? (13:50) - What Should You Do With An Inheritance? ...
Apple iPhones Give Me the Feelies
Mind Over Money - January 09, 2018 22:45 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsLong before anyone noticed what smartphones did to kids, a wise teacher warned us about the dangers of our devices (0:30) - Judgement Day: Big Investors Write a Letter To Apple (5:30) - Smartphone Addiction: How Did We Get Here? (8:20) - Neil Postman: A Wise Teacher Ahead Of His Time (11:...
What's The Undoing Project All About?
Mind Over Money - January 03, 2018 22:11 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsResist as he might, Michael Lewis couldn’t help but write the story of the partnership that created the most exciting economic power since the invention of money (0:30) - The Collision of Markets and Psychology (5:30) - The Great Partnership of Kahneman and Tversky (12:00) - CES in Vegas: ...
How Will Artificial Intelligence Change Your Investing?
Mind Over Money - December 12, 2017 23:06 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsAI is not a replacement for stock-picking, but it will become a powerful ally against bad decision-making (0:20) - qplum: Deep learning & AI Based Trading Strategy (3:30) - AI Disruption On Asset Management Industry (7:00) - Customized Portfolios: How AI Is Useful To Investors (11:00) -...
12 Lessons Before You Trade Bitcoin Futures
Mind Over Money - December 07, 2017 01:03 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsNew risk management for the newest asset class is a welcome innovation, but requires different knowledge and skills than buy-and-hold (0:45) - Bitcoin Surges Over $12,000... then $13K (5:10) - 6 Starter Insights to Trade Bitcoin (15:45) - How Will Large Futures Traders Impact Bitcoin? (...
Bitcoin or CRISPR: Which is the Bigger Disruptor?
Mind Over Money - November 29, 2017 23:31 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsIn just 5 years, two new "exponential technologies" have been created that will dramatically change the world (0:25) - Nothing Changes Economics and Behavior Like New Technology (4:00) - The "Fear Of Missing Out" On Bitcoin Pushes it Over $10,000 (11:10) - 4 Thinkers Who Influence Bitcoin...
Don’t Fight the Gravity of Exponential Change
Mind Over Money - November 22, 2017 22:59 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsTechnology is reshaping life and business so fast that intelligent adaptation could be the #1 skill of the 21st century (0:30) - Hot Topics for Family Get-Togethers (4:00) - Exponential Technologies: Change at the Speed of Light (10:30) - Futurist Alvin Toffler's “Predictable” Life ...
Bitcoin $20,000 Before Zero
Mind Over Money - November 15, 2017 22:33 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsWhy the leading cryptocurrency has been strongly validated in the past month and dispels the bubble talk (1:30) - Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Revolution (12:00) - Bitcoin Volatility: The Hard Fork (17:00) - Square Testing Integration Of Bitcoin (22:00) - Zimbabwe Coup Spikes Bitcoin Ov...
Blockchain 101: If Bitcoin’s a Fraud, How is Ethereum Different?
Mind Over Money - November 08, 2017 00:07 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsJamie Dimon’s JPMorgan just launched a Blockchain platform based on a very different cryptocurrency. (0:25) - Bitcoin Surges Past $7,000 on CME Futures Contract (4:00) - Jamie Dimon: "Bitcoin Is A Fraud!" (11:00) - What the Heck is a Blockchain? (14:40) - Ethereum = Expanded Capability v...
Deep Learning Goes to Wall Street
Mind Over Money - November 01, 2017 21:54 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsFintech innovations are changing investing tools and behavior in powerful ways that you must begin to explore. (0:30) - Automated Financial Management: Betterment & Wealthfront (5:30) - Burton Malkiel: Are Markets Too Random? (9:00) - Resources for the Deep Learning / AI Future We Face (...
AI in Action: DeepStack, DeepMind, and Deep Learning Intuition (Part 2)
Mind Over Money - October 25, 2017 22:01 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsThe power of AI will take over the world with “invisible robots” making life easier, better, faster (0:30) - AI and Deep Learning: Tools Not Tyrants (6:00) - How DeepStack Uses Intuition in Poker (14:45) - DeepMind’s AlphaGo Zero Drops a Bomb (19:30) - Psychology Meets AI: Mariano ...
AI in Action: Deep Learning Cracks Poker Code (Part I)
Mind Over Money - October 18, 2017 00:26 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsHow engineers taught a computer to beat poker pros using its "intuition" (0:30) - What Is AI? (2:00) - An Inside Look At Nvidia (9:00) - What Not To Do In The Stock Market: Phil Hellmuth (14:30) - Facebook and Intel's AI Partnership (19:00) - AI Plays Poker (24:00) - Creating A Com...
Thaler’s Nobel: Brilliant, Lazy, Humble
Mind Over Money - October 10, 2017 21:04 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsAfter this high-profile prize in economics, investors might just be ready to admit how irrational they can be. Please pick a time stamped topic below: (0:45) - Richard Thaler and Daniel Kahneman (5:45) - Active Traders Already Accept Their Irrationality (9:30) – Psycho-Economic Thinking for...
Monty Hall and Probability 101
Mind Over Money - October 03, 2017 21:53 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsIn honor of the late great Let's Make a Deal host, I offer some good and fun reasons to learn more math. Please pick a time stamped topic below: (1:00) - What The Framers Couldn't Imagine (7:00) - Monty Hall: The Probability Brain Buster (12:30) - Jeff Yass: The Power Of Rational Thinkin...
The Secret Meaning of FANG
Mind Over Money - September 12, 2017 21:56 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsBeyond a mere momentum fad, 3 of these companies are part of tech renaissance that will last decades. Please pick a time stamped topic below: (0:30) - FANG Stocks: Momentum Fad or Millennium Fuel? (3:30) - The 6 Exponential Technologies (8:45) - Is Facebook an Exponential Change-Agent? (1...
Indecision Won’t Kill You, But It Will Take Your Money
Mind Over Money - August 29, 2017 21:36 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsThis episode is all about the risk and reward of decision-making. Sometimes we avoid making decisions, and often we never learn from our bad ones. I was fortunate that I became a high-frequency currency trader 20 years ago and learned how to make lots of decisions every hour that I could never...
What You See, and What You Get: The Neurology of Perception
Mind Over Money - August 15, 2017 21:33 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsWhile "the biotech century" cures cancer, it's also tackling dozens of neurological diseases investors should learn about. Please pick a time stamped topic below: (1:00) - Neuroscience: The 4 Theaters Of The Brain (5:00) - Investors Train Their Brains to Trade: Assumption and Perception (...
Why the Apple Ecosphere Could Own Augmented Reality
Mind Over Money - August 01, 2017 20:54 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsOne analyst predicts AR/VR markets to grow to $100 billion in 4 years and diagrams 4 hardware + software waves Apple owns. Please pick a time stamped topic below: (1:00) - Facebook Hires Regina Dugan: Former DARPA Engineer (5:30) - Tim Merel of Digi-Capital: AR & VR Expert (8:45) - Pokémon ...
The E.T. Economy: Disruptive Technology and the Behavior of Shopping
Mind Over Money - June 27, 2017 20:59 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsWelcome back to Mind Over Money. I’m Kevin Cook, your field-guide and story-teller for the fascinating arena of Behavioral Economics. Please pick a time stamped topic below: (0:30) - Disruptive Technology and New Shopping Behavior (2:10) - Google, Facebook and Alibaba Making Waves in...
What to Do Before the Machines Take Over
Mind Over Money - May 09, 2017 21:30 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsCould automation and AI wipe out a billion jobs in the next decade and create an inequality chasm? Please pick a time stamped topic below: (0:40) - Automation Puts a Billion Jobs in Danger (2:00) - Big Economic Disruption: Big Data, AI and Robotics (3:40) - Is the Industrial Revolution Comi...
Kevin Duffy: Federal Reserve & Markets Flunking the Marshmallow Test
Wall St For Main St - April 01, 2017 23:43 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 106 ratingsJason Burack of Wall St for Main St interviewed returning guest, hedge fund manager Kevin Duffy of Bearing Asset Management http://www.bearingasset.com/. Kevin has over 30 years of experience working in the financial industry and over 20 years of experience successfully shorting stocks. Kevin ru...
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