Ep. 1034: Gregory Zuckerman Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Gregory Zuckerman, the #1 New York Times bestselling author and award-winning Wall Street Journal investigative journalist lauded for his “bravura storytelling” (Gary Shteyngart) and “first-rate” reporting (The New York Times). He is the author of The Greatest Trade Ever, The Frackers, and The Man Who Solved the Market and is a Special Writer at the Wall Street Journal. At the Journal, Zuckerman writes about financial firms, personalities and trades, as well as hedge funds and other investing and business topics.

The topic is his book A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

A Shot to Save the World
COVID-19 Vaccines
Pfizer Meme
Wearing a Mask
The different types of COVID-19 vaccines
COVID-19 and HIV
Coronavirus and Obesity
Benefits of the COVID-19 Vaccine

Jump in!

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I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

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0:00.0	This is trend following radio, where great thinking comes alive.
0:10.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:21.3	I am your host, Michael Cobell, not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.5	My guest today is Gregory Zuckerman.
0:35.6	This is his second time on the show, the first time we had a very
0:39.3	nice conversation about a book that he wrote about famed trader Jim Simons. You should definitely
0:45.4	check that out if you've not heard it. Today, Greg and I jump into COVID-19, specifically
0:52.2	the vaccines. He has written a new book, A Shot to Save the World,
0:57.6	the inside story of the life or death race for a COVID-19 vaccine. Greg's been around for a long
1:03.9	time. He had access to all kinds of players for this. People at the pharmaceutical firms,
1:13.9	venture capitalists, government types. He had access to a lot of people, probably more access to the behind the scenes of development of
1:20.4	these vaccines than anyone. Now, of course, some of you are already thinking, wow, this is really
1:27.2	interesting. Some of you are already thinking, wow, this is really interesting.
1:27.8	Some of you are already thinking, oh my gosh, I'm tired of COVID or I don't want to take vaccines or whatever.
1:33.9	It's a controversial subject.
1:36.2	Our conversation that follows is controversial.
1:39.7	There is a battle, so to speak, between Greg and I.
1:43.2	A good natured battle, but we speak, between Greg and I. A good-natured battle.
1:45.0	But we definitely have a little bit of a, you know what I mean.
1:50.8	Slight disagreements.
1:52.5	Not necessarily meeting of the minds.
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