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🗓️ 22 August 2019
⏱️ 75 minutes
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On the heels of a new report warning GE is a bigger fraud than Enron, to the latest unjustifiable IPO of a flashy tech star, to the testing of autonomous vehicles, there’s a lot to unpack this week.
Dan then gets to this week’s special guest, John Doody.
John Doody brings a unique perspective to gold stock analysis. With a BA in Economics from Columbia, an MBA in Finance from Boston University, where he also did his PhD-Economics course work, he became interested in gold due to an innate distrust of politicians and concern over their habit of debasing the currency via inflationary economic policies.
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0:22.9 | Hello and welcome everyone to another episode of the Stansberry Investor Hour. I'm your host, |
0:27.9 | Dan Ferris. I'm also the editor of Extreme Value. That's a value investing service published by |
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0:39.7 | So the rant this week is continuation of last week. |
0:42.9 | Okay? |
0:43.5 | What I've done here is I've added kind of another chapter to the story. |
0:50.4 | So last week I talked to you about the way that Wall Street turns conservative investment |
0:56.4 | vehicles into pure toxic waste, is what I'm calling it. And I mentioned two examples, right? The |
1:02.9 | investment trusts starting in the late 19th century, ending in the 1929 crash, and the U.S. 30-year |
1:10.4 | mortgage around the time of the financial crisis, you know, |
1:13.8 | maybe from around 2002 through just say 2009. |
1:19.0 | This week, I want to talk a little bit about mutual funds in that same light. |
1:25.3 | Okay. |
1:26.0 | And the story begins with something called the Prudent Man ruling of 1830. |
1:33.3 | We're getting in the weeds here, folks. There's a lot of material here. All right. So the Prudent Man |
1:38.9 | fiduciary tradition in American, well, in American law and American finance, goes back a couple hundred |
1:46.0 | years before the 1960s when the mutual funds kind of blew up in the way that I'm about to |
1:52.6 | describe. |
1:53.4 | But there was this one particular decision in 1830 in a case called Harvard College versus |
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