Improve Your Financial Literacy: Edward Chancellor On Economic History & Investment Strategies
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Joining us in this episode is Edward Chancellor, a financial historian, journalist, and investment strategist. He is the author of Devil Take Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation, and The Price of Time, books that dive into the stock market, economic growth, rising inequality, elevated debt levels, the pensions crisis, and more.
In addition to his larger works, Edward is also a columnist writing for Reuters Breakingviews and a contributor to the Wall Street Journal, MoneyWeek, the New York Review of Books and Financial Times. What has 30 years of experience in the financial sector taught Edward about economic history and investment opportunities? He joins the podcast to explain…
In this conversation, we explore:
- What led Edward to leave the world of finance to pursue writing.
- How to understand investment from a historical perspective.
- How finances have changed in the last 60 years.
- What financialization is, and what it does to society.
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| 0:35.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:41.0 | Very interesting guest today. |
| 0:42.0 | He's got a new book out called The Price of Time, |
| 0:45.1 | The Real Story of Interest. His name is Edward Chancellor. He's a financial historian, a journalist, |
| 0:50.7 | and an investment strategist. So welcome, Edward, thanks for coming. |
| 0:54.0 | Thanks for having me on your podcast. |
| 0:56.6 | Yeah, let's just tell listeners a bit about your background and, you know, |
| 1:00.4 | some of the work that you do today, |
| 1:02.4 | and then we'll get into the book |
| 1:03.3 | um well I'm I've been working in the financial world for a little more than 30 years |
| 1:10.0 | as in a variety of jobs starting as an investment banker, then as a financial |
| 1:16.8 | author working on books, financial journalists, and then after that as an investment strategist working in asset allocation |
| 1:25.6 | and about 10 years ago I jacked in that job and went back to writing full-time |
| 1:30.3 | spending most of my time writing the book what we're going to talk about. |
| 1:34.6 | Well I hope it's not intrusive to ask you but what made you leave the world of finance |
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