On this episode we take things around the world, covering everything from Brexit and the late Christopher Hitchens to index funds and the common sense of JFK. Sorry it’s been a while in between drinks.
Show highlights
- Finding time to read while being a good (new) Dad
- How fees dominate the financial advice industry (managing your own super deprives the financial advice sector of an estimated $14 to $20 billion annually in fees)
- Thinking differently about banks – how their true customers are the people that lend to them, not so much mortgage holders
- Remembering Christopher Hitchens – a consistent polemicist and anti-fascist
- JFK’s speeches and common sense advocacy of tax cuts that help the economy, which in turn helps everyone (not a select few)
- Jordan’s knife collection and the Hong Kong dollar
Resources/People/Articles Mentioned in the Podcast
- The Dhandho Investor: The Low-Risk Value Method to High Returns by Mohnish Pabrai
- The death of civilised debate by Douglas Murray
- Australian investor John Hempton
- The Faith of Christopher Hitchens by Larry Alex Taunton
- JFK’s 1961 speech to the UN General Assembly and 1946 speech Why I Am a Democrat
- The good guy/bad guy myth by Catherine Nichols
- Jonah Goldberg’s chat with Russ Roberts on Econtalk
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