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Mind Over Money

The psychology of investing has become such an important area of research that major hedge funds are building trading strategies around human behavioral patterns. In Mind Over Money, Kevin Cook explores the crossroads where markets and brains collide, delving into the two sciences – neuroscience and behavioral finance – that show why investors are often highly irrational when faced with economic decisions, uncertainty, and risk.
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Now displaying: July, 2018
Jul 26, 2018

The greatest accidental experiment in social media has a lot to teach us about taming the AI beast

 

(2:00) - Facebook Flopped and It’s Great!  

(5:45) - Max Tegmark: Life 3.0

(10:35) - Prometheus Achieves World Domination   

(16:00) - Taming the Beast that AI Could Become

(21:10) - 5 Proofs We Are Naturally Irrational 

(24:20) - Driving Money Away, Keeping Bad Habits

(29:25) - Repelling Helpful People, Sabotaging Our Health

(34:15) - An Elephant in Your Brain

(42:30) - Episode Roundup: Podcast@Zacks.com

Jul 19, 2018

I’m not crazy about kids wasting hours playing video games, but there has to be a way to profit from it, for all of us

(0:30) - Stock-Picking: Better Than Video Games?

(4:30) - Fortnite Battle Royale: Free Viral Mania Makes Millions   

(10:45) - Video Game Industry: Where $100 Billion Comes From

(14:30) - Amazon's Twitch Creates a Whole New World

(21:15) - Freemium Model: What Impact on Console Companies?

(30:00) - Future of Gaming, Augmented Reality, and Education

(33:10) - Episode Roundup: Podcast@Zacks.com

Jul 12, 2018

How technology changes human behavior and social rules, but not human nature and genetics—yet.

(0:45) - The Century of Biology

(8:00) – Wonderful Dopamine: The Attention Drug

(21:30) – Memory, Emotion and Learning Complete the Loop

(33:00) - Dopamine in the Noisy Concert of Consciousness

(39:05) - The Cerebral Symphony: Arouse, Orient, Detect, Execute

(43:10) – Find Your Flow: 5 Ways To Learn More, Better, Faster

(49:00) - Episode Roundup: Podcast@Zacks.com

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