Non-Political Pre-Election Special

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🗓️ 19 October 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

After a few years of brutal campaigning, the U.S. presidential election is upon us! Always the Rule Breaker, David’s take on politics is decidedly non-political. Taking the long view, we’ll apply some systemic thinking and reach all the way back to Dickens for some perspective and inspiration. And be sure to listen to the end for your homework assignment!

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0:00.0	This episode of Rule Breaker Investing is brought to you by Rocket Mortgage by Quicken Loans.
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0:15.0	It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner.
0:23.0	And welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing.
0:28.0	We're just a few weeks away from the U.S. election for president, and I thought I'd have a little bit of fun this
0:34.3	week and call this our pre-election special. Now if you know me you know that I'm
0:39.5	highly apolitical so it's somewhat ironic that I would have a pre-election special, but since I'm a rule
0:44.7	breaker and I like to have fun, I just like the title.
0:48.3	And we're going to go there a little bit.
0:49.8	I'm not going to talk about who I think you should vote for.
0:52.4	I'm not going to tell you who I think you should vote for. I'm not going to
0:53.0	tell you who I'm going to vote for, although I can tell you who I'm not voting for.
0:56.3	If you're a listener of this podcast and you are around in early August you'll already
0:59.9	know. But what I do want to do is talk about the greater significance of it.
1:06.5	It's an election that for the last couple of years seems to have been on the minds of the media
1:12.0	and presumably all of us who are reading the articles really for almost
1:15.7	two years now.
1:17.4	The phenomenon that has been pointed out in America where Christmas starts earlier every year,
1:22.2	I'd even say these days Halloween starts earlier
1:24.8	every year these days. I find the same thing seems to be true of the presidential
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