The Language of Investing
Rule Breaker Investing
The Motley Fool
4.5 • 928 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2016
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
The words we choose when we talk about investing reveal a lot about our thoughts, biases, and motivations. This week, a little rant on diction, etymology, and cliché, along with some thoughts on how better to speak of our investing motives.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Full Co-founder David Gardner. |
| 0:07.0 | And welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing. |
| 0:12.0 | A delight to have you with me this week. And I'm welcome back to Rule Breaker investing. |
| 0:13.0 | A delight to have you with me this week. |
| 0:15.2 | And I hope you enjoy a good rant or two |
| 0:17.1 | because that's what we're going to be doing this week. |
| 0:19.7 | It's not something that I do all the time. |
| 0:22.4 | I'm not sure. I hope I haven't ranted too much in our first 30 plus |
| 0:26.0 | podcasts for rulebreaker investing but I'm gonna do it a little bit this week and not not railing |
| 0:31.5 | against any one person or idea but really rather against |
| 0:35.4 | language specific language that I see I would say misused when it's applied to the |
| 0:42.0 | stock market so we're going to be talking about terms that you will |
| 0:45.4 | hear all the time. Regular habits of verbiage that newscasters, friends, perhaps you yourself have fallen into, I do it sometimes |
| 0:56.2 | too, and I'm going to call them out one at a time and we're going to explore that and we're |
| 1:01.2 | going to try to get a little bit better. |
| 1:03.0 | And at the end I will provide a few extra pet peeves just because this is my |
| 1:07.0 | rant and pet peeve podcast. |
| 1:09.0 | So I keep a long list of pet peeves. |
| 1:11.0 | Just, it's kind of fun. |
| 1:12.0 | I have it in ever notes one of my |
| 1:13.7 | favorite ever notes and occasionally when something bothers me I'll just add it to the |
| 1:17.6 | list so I have this long list and certainly one of my pet peeves by the way |
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