Ep. 438: The Big Short Never Ends with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2016
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Please enjoy my monologue The Big Short Never Ends with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.
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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.
To start? I'd like to give you a great piece of advice you can use in your life and trading journey… cut your losses! You will find much more about that philosophy here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/trend/
You can watch a free video here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/video/
Can't get enough of this episode? You can choose from my thousand plus episodes here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/podcast
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Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!
Transcript
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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. |
| 0:32.0 | I love that verse from Joe Walsh. |
| 0:35.3 | I have a mansion. |
| 0:37.0 | Forget the price. Ain't never been there. They tell me it's |
| 0:41.0 | nice. I live in hotels, tear out the walls. I have accountants pay for it all. Those damn CPAs, |
| 0:51.9 | they keep everybody in business, huh? |
| 1:04.3 | CPAs, attorneys, they allow the cover for the great scams of Wall Street to unfold. |
| 1:10.6 | Today I'm going to talk about one of those scams, what we can learn from it. |
| 1:15.7 | But first, a blast from the past. |
| 1:22.9 | Because I will guarantee you any scam that takes place today in 2016, we've been there before, |
| 1:27.3 | seen that, done that, been there before, nothing new. |
| 1:32.1 | Let's go back to the early 2000s. |
| 1:37.6 | For some of you listening, you're not going to recall 15 years ago. |
| 1:42.4 | But Enron was this fantastic company. |
| 1:45.5 | Perhaps you've seen the documentary on Netflix. |
| 1:47.2 | Pretty cool documentary. |
| 1:51.5 | But Enron was one of the biggest, best companies. |
| 1:53.2 | They were making an absolute fortune. |
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