Ep. 998: David Buckmaster Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is David Buckmaster. He has led corporate compensation teams at companies like Nike, Starbucks, and Yum! Brands, and worked with business leaders on pay projects all over the world. Buckmaster was named to the global shortlist of the 2018 Financial Times and McKinsey & Company Bracken Bower Prize for emerging business writers.

The topic is his book Fair Pay: How to Get a Raise, Close the Wage Gap, and Build Stronger Businesses.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

March 2020
Track Record
Bitcoin Generation
Market Bubbles
Inflation and Deflation
Commodities

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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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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.
0:21.2	I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.5	Now, this subject today is one of those ones that's going to cause a lot of conflict in the minds of many.
0:40.8	Some will support the idea, some will not.
0:44.3	But my guest today makes the argument that we've got a pay problem in America, an inequality problem, that people just are not making enough money.
0:53.7	I can't disagree with that.
0:55.9	He makes the argument that our current compensation model is broken, that we need
1:01.3	radical new fixes.
1:03.3	He could be right.
1:04.9	The question, how do we get there?
1:08.6	How do we get there in a, quote, democracy, radical fixes in a capitalistic
1:14.6	system? This gets close to a lot of hot button issues and you know where I'm going when I say
1:21.0	hot button. I guess today David Buckmaster goes there. His new book, Fair Pay, pulls back the curtain on corporate decision
1:32.0	making when it comes to pay. Is it fair? Is it not fair? What can we do better? Should we do a
1:38.6	damn thing? To those people that listen to this podcast, you probably have a sneaky suspicion
1:43.2	about where I want to go on this issue.
1:45.7	And the fact that David is addressing it as he is, you probably know where he wants to go.
1:52.1	Now, maybe you're already thinking there's going to be some conflict.
1:55.5	Maybe there's a little.
1:56.4	Maybe there's none.
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