Your Brain is the Worst Investor in the Room — ft. Scott Nations

Prof G Markets

Prof G Media & Vox Media

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.3 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Ed Elson is joined by Scott Nations, President of Nations Indexes and author of “The Anxious Investor”, to break down why human psychology often leads to poor investment decisions, and what you can do to counteract it. He also shares his views on the boom in options trading, explains whether or not he believes we’re in a bubble, and outlines what his number one risk is for 2026. Check out our latest Prof G Markets newsletter Follow Prof G Markets on Instagram Follow Ed on Instagram, X and Substack Follow Scott on Instagram Send us your questions or comments by emailing Markets@profgmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for the show comes from Funrise. For the past seven years, there's been a room in finance
0:05.4	most people couldn't enter, a room where you could have invested in some of the biggest names
0:09.4	in tech companies like Airbnb and Uber before their multi-billion dollar IPOs. I'm talking about
0:15.7	venture capital. Funrise recently took a sledgehammer to those closed doors by launching a venture
0:20.6	capital product that's available to anyone.
0:23.3	Their mission is to give everyone the chance to invest in the best tech and AI companies before they go public.
0:28.9	You can visit Funrise.com slash ProfG to check out Funrise's venture portfolio and get in early today.
0:35.4	All investments involve risk, including the potential loss of principle,
0:38.3	past performance is not indicative of future results. This is a paid advertisement.
0:44.8	Today's number, 67,000. That's how many miles per hour the Earth travels around the sun.
0:53.9	Astronomers tried for centuries to understand the sun,
0:56.7	including where it goes at night, but eventually it dawned on them.
1:03.8	Listen to me. Markets are bigger than I.
1:05.8	What you have here is a structure or change in the world distribution.
1:08.3	Cash is trash. Stocks look pretty attractive.
1:11.3	Something's going to break.
1:12.3	Forget about it.
1:13.6	Welcome to Profi Market.
1:15.0	Scott is still away.
1:17.2	He will be back on Monday, but we have a great interview today.
1:21.2	We have been spending a lot of time this year thinking about how to invest in 2026.
1:27.0	We've been hearing the bull case. We've heard the
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