Ep. 189: Kathy Kristof Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2013
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Kathy Kristof, editor of SideHusl.com, is an award-winning financial journalist, who writes regularly for Kiplinger's Personal Finance and CBS MoneyWatch. She's the author of Investing 101, Taming the Tuition Tiger and Kathy Kristof's Complete Book of Dollars and Sense.
The topic is finance.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- If we have bubbles, and we keep having bubbles, what does the average investor do?
- The difficulty of trying to figure out value today
- The impact of interest rates on investors; the "nervousness" of stocks
- Government intervention and trust
- Why investors are better off with a "softer" job market, and a slower recovery
- Why we have a "Goldilocks" economy, and what might happen if a black swan swoops in
- Why almost every strategy will have good results at some time or another, and the importance of picking a strategy for yourself
- Technology, and the connection to entrepreneurial pursuits
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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. |
| 0:21.1 | I am your host, Michael Covel. |
| 0:24.0 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:32.9 | A guest today is Kathy Christoff. |
| 0:36.1 | Kathy is a contributing editor for Kiplinger Personal Finance Magazine. |
| 0:40.9 | She has worked in financial media for quite a while. |
| 0:46.0 | So some very good experience in that area. |
| 0:49.8 | So I wanted to have her on today because she's talking value. |
| 0:55.7 | And obviously, I come from a trend or a momentum style thinking. |
| 1:01.7 | And we have a nice conversation. |
| 1:03.9 | And I have a feeling we have a lot in common from a public policy and an economic standpoint. |
| 1:10.0 | At the end of our conversation, it really changes more towards technology arving away the need for human beings. |
| 1:18.0 | But most of our conversation is me giving some slight pushback to the value perspective in current day markets. |
| 1:27.0 | I do want to add a few notes before I let |
| 1:30.1 | our interview play. Kathy brings up the phrase manic depressive market. And I'm not bringing |
| 1:36.4 | these points up as a way to continue a debate when she can't respond. But I just want to add |
| 1:43.3 | some thoughts here for you, |
| 1:44.9 | the listener to think of as you listen to our conversation. She brings up the idea of a manic, |
| 1:49.9 | depressive market. She talks about spotting underlying value and mentions today that valuations |
| 1:57.3 | are not so out of touch. |
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