6 Investing Takeaways From The 2018 World Cup

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🗓️ 20 June 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

World Cups only come around every 4 years. This year's tournament in Russia brings the world together in a whirl of competition and pageantry, creating stories full of tragedy and heroics. But most of all, it gives us these 6 investing lessons that we can talk about during the halftime break.

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0:36.6	happening globally this month, June 2018. It happens for the men every four years and for the women every four years and it's the World Cup and I don't think I'm surprising most of you with that knowledge now a lot of my American listeners may or may not even
0:54.6	be soccer fans. I can't really describe myself as a soccer fan. I am a World Cup
1:00.4	fan. I enjoy these events for the men and the women every few years and
1:04.3	I think part of what makes them awesome is that they're only played like the Olympics
1:07.6	every four years so it makes them more special and as you get to be in my case 52 years old you can even start
1:14.8	doing some math and say how many more of these things am I'm going to be able to see
1:17.8	so those those four-year increments make things weightier in lots of interesting ways and I think it's a
1:25.0	brilliant phenomenon the World Cup and in fact that is our theme for this week and
1:30.4	rule breaker investing in fact I've brought together six, I'm going to
1:35.2	call them observations initially, six observations, having watched the first week or
1:39.7	so of the World Cup and again is not a traditional soccer fan I don't have a lot of
1:45.3	savvy that I can bring I do have some questions about the sport of soccer I
1:48.9	still think the whole shootout thing is silly at the end I I don't like how in Thai games, which is
1:54.7	dramatic and fun. I don't like how at the very end if we can't resolve it after a
1:59.0	golden goal and extra time, we just go to this artificial format where we just kick the ball at the
2:04.0	goalie. That would be like for basketball if you go through a few over times and it's not
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