Jason Zweig: Temperament Is Everything for Most Investors

The Long View

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🗓️ 29 June 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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The author and The Wall Street Journal columnist discusses the current trading frenzy, the scorn for expertise, the road to a fiduciary standard, and more.

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0:32.7	Hi, and welcome to the Longview. I'm Jeff Battack, Chief Ratings Officer for Morningstar Research Services. And I'm Christine Ben's director of personal finance for Morningstar.
0:42.1	Our guest on the podcast this week is Wall Street Journal columnist and author Jason Zweig.
0:46.8	Jason became a personal finance columnist for the Wall Street Journal in 2008, and his weekly
0:51.5	column, The Intelligent Investor, is a must read for people inside and outside of the investment industry.
0:57.9	Jason is also the editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor, and he's the author of Your Money in Your Brain, which explores the neuroscience of investing.
1:08.6	He also wrote The Devil's Financial D financial dictionary, which is a satirical
1:11.9	glossary of Wall Street. Before joining the journal, Jason was a senior writer for Money Magazine
1:16.8	and a guest columnist for Time magazine in CNN.com. Prior to that, he was the mutual funds editor
1:23.0	at Forbes. He has a BA from Columbia College, and he also spent a year studying Middle Eastern history and
1:29.5	culture at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Jason, welcome to the Longview.
1:35.0	Great to be with you guys. Thanks for having me.
1:38.0	Oh, it's our pleasure. So we wanted to start off with investing. It seems like a natural
1:41.5	place to start. Maybe with a big picture question,
1:44.3	we're in a phase where it seems like we're celebrating those who break the rules or
1:48.7	flout orthodoxy, for instance, meme stocks and joke cryptocurrencies, trolish CEOs who tout
1:55.1	joke cryptos and meme stocks. None of these things really conform to a playbook.
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