Jason Zweig on Finance and the Devil's Financial Dictionary

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🗓️ 6 June 2016

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Jason Zweig of the Wall Street Journal and author of The Devil's Financial Dictionary talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about finance, financial journalism and Zweig's new book. Zweig discusses rationality and the investor's challenge of self-restraint, the repetitive nature of financial journalism, and the financial crisis of 2008.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:09.2	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:13.7	Our website is econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find
0:18.7	links and other information related to today's conversation.
0:21.7	You'll also find our archives where you can listen to every episode we've ever done
0:25.8	going back to 2006.
0:28.3	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:30.7	We'd love to hear from you.
0:34.2	Today is May 23rd, 2016, and my guest is author and journalist Jason Zweig of the Wall Street Journal.
0:42.0	His latest book is the Devil's Financial Dictionary.
0:45.6	Jason, welcome to Econ Talk.
0:47.7	Great to be with you, Russ.
0:49.2	I'm a big fan of Ambrose Beers.
0:52.0	His book is the Devil's Dictionary, and you have written a...
0:57.4	It's really an homage to Beers, I would say.
0:59.9	Is that a good way to describe it?
1:02.0	I was trying to channel him.
1:03.9	I make no pretense of being either as cynical or as good or right or as he was, but I certainly
1:11.1	was trying to write it in his spirit.
1:14.8	And we're going to get your book in a minute.
1:16.2	Before we do, I do want to let listeners know that Ambrose Beers was amazingly entertaining
1:24.0	and clever fellow.
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