My guest today is Barry Ritholtz, an author, newspaper columnist, blogger, equities analyst, television commentator, and CEO of Fusion IQ. Ritholtz is deep down a quant guy, but brings strong views and opinions. However, he won't sit around and "fight the tape".

The topic is his book Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• The price of paying attention and why you should be selective in what you watch, read, and listen to
• The onslaught of political information
• The insatiable need to consume information and knowing when it's the right time to quarantine yourself from being influenced by someone in particular
• Ritholtz's views on gold, why attaching your emotional well-being to it is wrong, and how it won't be quite as valuable as most people think in the event of a crisis; cutting your losses short and letting your winners run
• The real value of intuition
• How Ritholtz views the world and where we're at right now, societal and economic cycles, and how you can't be a doom and gloomer seeing what's coming down the pipeline in the next generation
• The importance of not being cash rich and time poor, getting "lost in the screens", and leading a good life instead of always chasing money for its own sake

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