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Mental Models Podcast It's not a brain in a jar, that's the gist!
All about your brain & obtaining real-world behavioral finance knowledge! Listeners have access to original and engaging discussion of behavioral finance and cognitive bias.
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Mental Models: Game Stop Stock Unhinged: #72
GameStop $GME shops mainly sold physical video games. They would also stock many resale items. The physical locations capitalized on the same type of...
Mental Models: EV Bubble Bursting: #71
The Electric Vehicle (EV) Bubble is rising and appears to be starting to burst. Issuances continue to pick up. The entire basket of EV stocks that we...
Mental Models: Money, genetics and your brain, lessons from “Behave” by Robert Sapolsky: #70
Financial insecurity impacts our brain and body throughout human development. Stress is increased with more authority & responsibility.
Lessons...
Mental Models: Lessons for finance, economy, & human behavior. Book review of “Sapiens”: #69
Brain and Investing lessons that we took from the book Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari (2017). An excellent read covering many surprising insights about...
Mental Models: Play and Understand Stock Market Bubbles: #68
Mental Models Podcasts predicts that this historic and unprecedented bubble will crash by the second quarter of 2021. Bubbles are driven by narratives...
Mental Models: Stock Winners and Losers heading into 2021: #67
COVID-19 has created an unprecedented impact on the stock market. There have been clear wining and losing stocks in 2020, where will these stock go i...
Mental Models: Political Theater, Psychology and Stock Market predictions for 2021: #66
Analogies help when we are faced with new challenges. Current events matter for the stock market, let’s frame these current events in relationship to...
Mental Models: Streaking Star Effect or Bias: #65
A talent that you have, but will it last, unlikely! We all want that superior money earning performance to continue, and we enjoy the success of an in...
Mental Models: Mistique behind Winning Streak, Hot Hand Effect: #64
Hot hand effect is the mystic behind your winning streak, despite all of your theorizing. There are many factors that explain the wins in the stock ma...
Mental Models: Changes to Economic Landscape: #63
Moving parts of the current economy has been influenced by the pandemic. This is an unprecedented time and reflects a poor experimental design. What i...
Mental Models: Compassion & Revisit #47 Our Basic Human Values: #62
Compassion and our basic human values drive us. In this episode we revisit a popular episode, and discuss values in detail from both an investing & ps...
Mental Models: Is Spotify a Good Investment?: #61
Spotify changing up the podcasting distribution - does it make Spotify a good investment? Spotify is scooping up top podcasters like Joe Rogan and Kim...
Mental Models: Investment Decisions in Levitating Market: #60
How does COVID-19 continue to influence market decisions? Online and e-commerce are impacting the market, as is the upcoming presidential election. Wh...
Mental Models: Psychology of Disney Stock since Virus Crisis: #59
What is the psychology of HOW Disney stock is traded due to #COVID-19? Disney provides ‘top notch escapism’ via multiple arms of the corporation. Addi...
Mental Models: Where is stock market going…crash?: #58
Risk is always a part of investing but even more with the unknowns of opening and closing of the economy. Another factor driving the market is the mon...
Mental Models: Will Toilet Paper Stock Surge During Pandemic?: #57
Everyone needs toilet paper! The initial increase in buying of toilet paper (AKA tissue paper) at the start of the COVID-19 crisis was likely due to a...
Mental Models: Psychology of Pandemic be Physically Distant while Socially Engaged: #56
Psychological research can inform our behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic. How do we decide what is the most effective response and how we will act?...
Mental Models: Psychological Timeline of Pandemic: #55
Jan. - Feb., 2020 was a period of ‘psychological inoculation’, in that we have heard this before, viruses come and go, like the flu and N1H1, and we w...
Mental Models: Brain Effects While Working From Home: #54
Norepinephrine sends signals widely throughout the brain that move us into a task motivated stated. A brain regain called the locus coeruleus located...
Mental Models: COVID-19 Stock Market Rallies: #53
Global economy has stalled in early 2020 due to COVID-19 and governments have provided stimuli. The stock market has rallied; SMP is up from the botto...
Mental Models: Global Protein Chain Breaking/Broken: #52
African Swine Fever in China has depopulated the hog heard in China. China is responsible for 50% of global production and consumption of pork. The c...
Mental Models: Motivations & Basic Human Values-Part 2: #51
Our basic human values drive us and drives up our oxytocin levels in our brain. Provided are applied examples of values in the investing world. We con...
Mental Models: Are Analogies between ‘?’ and Covid-19 Dangerous?: #50
Analogies help our brains understand a current event often using a past event, but with our brain filling in unknown gaps and creating possible danger...
Mental Models: Anchoring Bias & Base Rate Neglect in Relation to Covid-19: #49
How do we think psychologically about numbers? Especially in relation to the Covid-19 2020 pandemic and the impact on the stock market. Take into cons...
Mental Models: Recalibrate Biases to Cope with Pandemic: #48
Biases investors need to be aware of include ILLUSIONS OF INVULNERABILITY and ILLUSIONS OF CONTROL. Due to years of investing success investors feel i...
Mental Models: Motivations That Drive You - Our Basic Human Values Part 1: #47
Our basic human values drive us. In this episode we discuss values in detail from both an investing and psychological perspective. Our mental models o...
Mental Models: Impulse Control and Investment Decisions: #46
Do you have the will power to keep from buying that stock too early? Humans need the will power to delay gratification - how do we get it? Discipline...
Mental Models: Keys to Flexible Thinking and Problem Solving: #45
The keys to flexible thinking come from exploring the different solutions to a problem vs. exploiting the rewards, resulting in perseveration behavior...
Mental Models: Use Chunking to Conquer Memory Limitations: #44
In this episode we consider how our memory systems are organized and what we can do to help become better at remembering in a variety of areas of our...
Mental Models: Selection Bias - Where’s Waldo?: #43
Selection Bias can keep us hunting for what is most present on our mind, Waldo or the new Toyota we are planning to buy. Once we have committed to a...
Mental Models: Salience Bias - Fear and Uncertainty: #42
Be the courageous investor! Fear linked to 3 things:
1: To little information
2: Potential Threat
3: Helplessness
Inves...
Mental Models: Avoid Rationalizing a Stock that is a Lemon: #41
Rationalization and thesis drift is akin to wrestling with muddy pigs... it’s slippery and you will lose $$$. For investors ”thesis drift” is the ten...
Investment Process V: Post mortem: #40
“Understanding Behavioral Bia$” follow along with book by Dr. Daniel Krawczyk and George Baxter, JD, CFA, (Chapter 8) while listening to this podcast....
Mental Models: Market & Macro Nonsense: #39
Recap of general market trends experienced in 2019 and interpret what they might mean for the economy in 2020. The expansion is the longest we have s...
Mental Models: Investing & Behavioral Bias in an Election Year: #38
How politics might influence the stock market in an election year! All of this while the standing president of the United States is under investigatio...
Mental Models: Holiday Message 2019 and Behavioral Bia$: #37
There won't be any regular episodes of Mental Models Podcast as we take a holiday break. Regular service will resume the first full week in January 20...
Investment Process IV: Analysis and Execution: #36
“Understanding Behavioral Bia$” follow along with book by Dr. Daniel Krawczyk and George Baxter, JD, CFA, (Chapter 8) while listening to this podcast....
Investment Process III: Fundamental Research: #35
Follow along with our book “Understanding Behavioral Bia$” by Dr. Daniel Krawczyk and George Baxter, JD, CFA, (Chapter 8) while listening to this podc...
Mental Models: Understanding Behavioral Bia$: #34
Book review and origin story of "Understanding Behavioral Bia$: A Guide to Improving Financial Decision Making”. This book is a great tool to improve...
Investment Process II: Idea Vetting: #33
Idea vetting is the second step in the Investment Process - how to improve your process and what Biases are keeping your from your financial and inves...