Ep. 575: Tyler Cowen Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 730 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2017
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Tyler Cowen, the author of “The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream.” Tyler first noticed a problem in America when he began traveling after the financial crisis and saw how “comfortable” life had become for many Americans. People were not taking risks anymore and when risk is taken away, what is left?
The topic is his book The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Complacency
- Elon Musk
- Innovators
- The millennial generation
- Democracy as a medium
- American culture on the decline
- Illegal and legal drug use
- Online matching from dating to shopping goods
- Lifting people out of poverty
- Jack Ma
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.
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/
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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 Coval. |
| 0:24.0 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.5 | Before I jump into my guest today, |
| 0:37.0 | a quick reminder, now out in audiobook. |
| 0:41.4 | My newest edition of Trend Following. |
| 0:44.6 | Trend following. |
| 0:45.6 | How to Make a Fortune in Bull, Bear and Black Swan Markets. |
| 0:49.2 | Now Out in Audio Book, 34 plus hours. |
| 0:53.6 | Get it before they run out. Can they run out today? Can they run out in |
| 0:57.3 | 2017? I think they can run out. So you better buy it now before they run out. My guest today is |
| 1:03.0 | Tyler Cohen. He is an American economist. He happens to be an American economist at my |
| 1:07.6 | alma mater, George Mason University. George Mason University, that small, well, it's not small these days, but that under the radar |
| 1:15.9 | university that got to the final four, gosh, was that a decade ago? |
| 1:20.2 | Hey, still, that's a big time deal, man. |
| 1:21.8 | When you get to the final four from a school like George Mason, that sets a mark. |
| 1:26.9 | But it's not just basketball that sets George Mason apart. |
| 1:29.8 | It's his economics department. |
| 1:33.1 | Distinctly libertarian for lack of a better term. |
| 1:37.4 | My guest today, Tyler Cohen, is one of the leaders. |
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