Ep. 621: George Anders Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is George Anders, a New York Times best selling author and journalist who has written for national publications spanning over 30 years. He shared a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1997, while at The Wall Street Journal. Michael is a huge fan of George’s classic, “Merchants of Debt” published in 1992.

The topic is his book You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power of ‘Useless’ Liberal Arts Education.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Confidence in business
Journalism
Targeted marketing
Mark Zuckerberg
Alumni connections
Audacity
Persuasion
E-books
The explorers spirit

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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 Coval.
0:24.0	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.2	My guest today is George Anders.
0:36.2	He is a New York Times best-selling author.
0:39.6	He is your classic journalist.
0:43.0	George tackles topics, investigates, uncovers, and gives really interesting, useful stories to all of us without the big partisan slat of today's, quote, journalist.
1:00.4	So I really appreciate that I'm able to have on one of those classic writers.
1:06.0	And when I say classic writers, George has been a writer for the Wall Street Journal,
1:10.1	Fast Company, Bloomberg,
1:12.3	over 30 years with some of the biggest publications that we all know. One of the reasons that I
1:18.7	really, really, really love George, his classic book, The Merchants of Debt. Now, I won't give away
1:27.3	exactly why I like it. I do that in this episode,
1:30.9	but it's one of these great books that if you've not read The Merchants of Debt, now it wasn't
1:37.7	written yesterday, irrelevant. I mean, if you think you can only read a book because it was
1:43.0	written in the year that you're in,
1:45.7	you're an idiot. Go buy the merchants of debt. Trust me, buy the merchants of debt. Go read it now.
1:54.6	One of those books that I read in my formative years that absolutely put me on a certain
2:00.1	confidence direction.
2:02.6	Today, George and I discuss his newest work.
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