Ep. 513: Ayn Rand Returns with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 730 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2016
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Ayn Rand. Rand is best known for her two best selling novels, “The Fountainhead” and “Atlas Shrugged.” Michael plays two clips of Donahue interviewing Rand. Rand is controversial, but her thinking is accurate and clear. She breaks down altruism, government regulation, free market, monopoly, God, feminism, terrorism, and many more topics. You may not agree with her on all points, but there is inspiration to be taken away from her passion and to-the-point thinking.
The topic is Objectivism.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Altruism
- Government regulation
- Acting on faith
- Living by emotion, not reason
- Women’s rights
- Religion
- Monopoly
- Spending money on the un-gifted minds rather than the gifted
- A “me” society
- Definition of a dictator
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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. |
| 0:21.2 | I am your host, Michael Covel. |
| 0:24.0 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.3 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.2 | I just love that Ginger Rogers clip. |
| 0:35.5 | I've played it so many times, but I love it. She's so damn cute. |
| 0:40.1 | When is that? 1928, 29, 1930? If you've not seen the video with Ginger Rogers singing that song that I just played, that clip, go watch. Go watch it on YouTube. |
| 0:54.3 | If you think I'm crazy for falling in love with her, what? |
| 0:58.0 | Closing in a hundred years later? |
| 1:01.0 | I guess we all have our issues. |
| 1:03.5 | But I just love her. |
| 1:04.6 | That's the bottom line. |
| 1:05.4 | I just love her. |
| 1:06.9 | Today, not unlike my episode with Milton Freeman a few weeks ago, |
| 1:12.5 | Phil Donahue reappears. |
| 1:14.5 | Phil Donahue and Ayn Rand. |
| 1:17.6 | Two episodes that I've curated down |
| 1:20.2 | that really give Rand a chance to shine. |
| 1:24.9 | Her logic and her reason on full display. Now, these were recorded sometime in the late |
| 1:30.5 | 1970s. Her way of thinking timeless, never goes stale. I love how she positions the universities |
| 1:41.4 | as villains, especially in this day and age of snowflakes and cupcakes |
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