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Animal Spirits Podcast

Re-Kindled: Where Are the Customers' Yachts (EP.85)

Animal Spirits Podcast

The Compound

Business News, News, Investing, Business

4.72.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Re-Kindled is a show where Michael and Ben discuss some of the best finance books ever written. On this episode of Re-Kindled Michael and Ben go through some of the lessons, passages, and funny anecdotes from Where Are The Customers' Yachts by Fred Schwed. Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Like us on Facebook And feel free to shoot us an email at animalspiritspod@gmail.com with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation.       Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Continue to repeat this operation as long as you live and you'll have the pleasure of dying rich.

0:04.7

If you would have bought those two weeks later you would have probably made a lot of money.

0:07.5

Damn it, I should have, I should have listened to my own charting.

0:10.1

That was perfect. That was like the mic drop right there.

0:14.0

Welcome to Rekindled with Michael and Ben.

0:18.0

A listener asks, I wanted to hear your thoughts on how relevant old readings are today.

0:23.8

More specifically, do you think there's anything to be gained from reading security analysis

0:27.9

or the intelligent investor?

0:29.5

I read only the latter but felt it was almost a waste of time as most of the information in it was

0:34.0

irrelevant in today's market. Yet I feel as if the zeitgeist of value investors is that these books are the

0:38.6

only things to be read in order to understand value investing. Interested to hear your

0:42.2

guys thoughts on this.

0:44.0

So on today's episode, Ben and I are going to talk about it and it's going to be a lot of reading

0:49.2

unfortunately because that's just sort of the nature of this book.

0:52.6

We're gonna talk about where are the customer's yacht

0:54.7

by Fred Schwed, which was initially wrote in 1940.

0:59.8

So to answer the question, I don't know that any book can teach you how to better analyze the stock market or how to cope with the emotions of winning and losing money.

1:14.8

But what it can do is make you more aware of human behavior.

1:19.8

Again, even though it might not necessarily mitigate your own,

1:23.5

but why do you pick this up?

1:24.4

I think I'm fumbling a little bit.

1:26.0

So I was just, I thought I was gonna be good, but.

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