Ep. 326: Kabir Sehgal Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Business, Investing

4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2015

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Kabir Sehgal, a New York Times bestselling author and Grammy Award-winning producer. He is currently a vice president at JPMorgan Chase. Sehgal's new book, Coined: The Rich Life of Money and How Its History Has Shaped Us, caught Covel's eye. This is a subject layered in complexity and depth. Just about everything that goes on in our lives is decided by money and Sehgal digs into its story on a micro level.

The topic is his book Coined: The Rich Life of Money and How Its History Has Shaped Us.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Sehgal's history
Sehgal's experience winning a Grammy for production and the idea of "no boxes"
Why Sehgal sees his life like a jazz composition
Defining money as a symbol of value
The neurological effects and artistic aspects of money
The currency of the natural world
Whether Sehgal sees "money as the root of all evil"
The idea of charity
The politics of money
The internationalization of currency
Hyperinflation
Gold, and Sehgal's experience going to the basement of the New York Fed
Digital money and bitcoin

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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.
0:33.1	My guest today is Kabir Segal, New York Times bestselling author.
0:38.5	He's a Grammy Award winning producer.
0:41.5	He is currently a vice president at J.P. Morgan Chase.
0:45.4	The reason we are talking today, his new book caught my eye, coined the rich life of money
0:51.8	and how its history has shaped us.
0:55.8	Talk about a subject, layered in complexity and depth.
1:01.3	Kabir digs into the story of money on a really, really micro level.
1:06.8	But it's fascinating.
1:09.2	All of these great debates we have today, these complaints we have these days, these conflicts we have these days, all over money.
1:17.6	But what is money?
1:19.6	Money is a means of exchange.
1:22.9	I hope you enjoy my conversation today with Kabir Segal.
1:34.9	I got to jump right in with my first question.
1:40.6	So as I'm reading your book, the first thing I can't help but notice as an author,
1:45.5	as somebody who has had to go out there and try to find prominent people that will give me the time to read my book and perhaps say something nice about it.
1:49.0	I'd like to know the secret to getting two presidents, Paul Volker, Walter Isaacson,
1:54.4	Richard Branson, and a Nobel Prize winner to have the attention span to take a look at your
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