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Hi, and welcome to the Longview. I'm Christine Benz, Director of Personal Finance and Retirement Planning

for Morning Star. And I'm Jeff Battack, Chief Ratings Officer for Morning Star Research Services.

Our guest on the podcast today is psychologist and author Dr. Daniel Crosby. Daniel is the chief

behavioral officer at Orion Advisor Solutions. Daniel has written numerous books on behavioral finance, including

the behavioral investor, the laws of wealth, psychology and the secret to investor success,

and you're not that great. Daniel also hosts his own podcast called Standard Deviations. He received

his bachelor's of science degree and Ph degree and PhD at Brigham Young

University. Daniel, welcome to the Longview. Thank you. It's wonderful to be here. Well, it's great

to have you here. We've been asking a lot of our guests to comment on this meme stock mania

that has been going on over the past year and a half, you think that there's a

connection to loneliness. Can you explain that thesis? Yeah, thanks, Christine. I do think there's

a connection to loneliness. So loneliness was an epidemic across the world even before the

pandemic and the accompanying lockdowns kicked off.

Interestingly, years ago, Great Britain actually appointed a minister of loneliness.

Japan has done the same because these two countries have seen that the social impact of social

isolation has been profound. In fact, 50% of Americans who were surveyed before COVID

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