Technology ignites commerce and both are driven by our insatiable thirst for wealth, power, knowledge, and new horizons
(1:00) - A Brief History of Tribal Behavior
(11:15) - China's Empire Goals: Winner Take All?
(24:05) - The Final Frontier: Space or AI?
(30:00) - Inevitable Expeditions: AI Before Mars
(38:30) - Episode Roundup: Podcast@Zacks.com
While populist movements seem a step backwards, the generations growing up on innovation and fluid borders will inherit one world
(1:00) - Why Technology is Unstoppable and Changes Everything
(8:15) - What's Driving the Trends Toward Nationalism?
(15:00) - Generational Drivers of Globalization vs. Populist Movements
(21:35) - Bull Market Going Higher: What Stops It?
(32:00) - Nationalism Stops Globalization, Proving Earth Not So Flat
(38:25) - Software Eats FedEx While Semis Soar To New Highs
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In 5 years, you be selling your gold and buying more companies leading the century of biology
(0:45) - The Behavior of Gold Investors
(4:35) - The Technology Super Cycle
(7:45) - The 4 Core Arguments Against Gold
(12:30) - NASA Mission To Psyche: The Fort Knox of Asteroids
(22:50) - Trade of the 2020’s: Sell Gold, Buy Biotech
The content explosion is creating massive new opportunity for advertisers and the one platform that connects everything.
(0:45) - Trade Desk Runs Box Office for the Streaming Cage Match
(6:10) - Binge Watching: The Behavioral Risks
(14:30) - Will Netflix Be Forced to Adopt Ad-Supported Platform?
(18:00) - Disney+ Storms the Battlefield
(22:15) - Amazon Prime & Apple TV: Ringside Seats and Lots of Popcorn
(28:40) - Is Comcast’s Free Box A Roku Killer?
(34:00) - Episode Roundup: Podcast@Zacks.com
Neuroscientists are proving the human sense of fear is very different than animals and why it matters
(0:45) - Twitter Discoveries: The Deep History of Ourselves
(6:00) - Awareness of Fear: Human vs. Animal Instincts
(11:30) - Acting out of Fear: Being Aware Of Your Emotions When Investing
(21:15) - Insights From Joseph LeDoux
(30:20) - Episode Roundup: Podcast@Zacks.com
We need science and math -- and STEM-savvy minds -- more than ever to help us inform decision making
(1:00) - Allergic to Algebra? Harnessing Math for Fun & Profit
(7:45) - Probability Skills Immunize Against Those Who Lie with Stats
(21:30) - Taleb's Black Swan and the Limits of Standard Deviation
(27:10) - Discovering Probability: Where Did It All Start?
(36:35) - Expected Value: A Simple Yet Powerful Equation
(41:20) - Crazy People Who Play Powerball: Visualizing The Odds
(52:25) - Episode Roundup: Podcast@Zacks.com
As we await results of NTSB and grand jury investigations, many questions linger about what went wrong
(0:45) - Boeing 737 MAX: Did Profit Motive Override Sound Design?
(8:15) - Remember the DC-10? How Consumers Handle Shocking Tragedies
(14:00) - MCAS Software Enhancement: The Right Solution, Wrongly Delivered?
(22:45) - Does The FAA Give Boeing Too Much Control?
(28:30) - What To Expect From Boeing Moving Forward
(31:05) - Episode Roundup: Podcast@zacks.com
A growing herd of unicorns and their founders and investors are finding liquidity without rushing to IPO
(0:45) - A New Marketplace for Pre-IPO Trading
(6:00) - How Forge Creates Value for Unicorns and Investors
(8:25) - Innovation with Spotify and Slack: What's a Direct Listing?
(12:15) - A Herd of Unicorns: Growth Potential for the Pre-IPO Market
(15:00) - Episode Roundup: Podcast@Zacks.com
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
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
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
How technology changes human behavior and social rules, but not human nature and genetics—yet.
(1:15) - FDA Shares Strategic Vision on Gene Therapies
(5:25) - Human Nature: New Science vs. Old Assumptions
(12:30) - Steven Pinker: Using Biology to Inform Beliefs
(17:40) - How Technology Changes Everything But Human Nature
(25:00) - Candace Pert: Your Body Is Your Subconscious Mind
(34:15) - Multi-Mind Theory: Do We Naturally Self-Sabotage?
(43:00) - “This Weather Is Crazy!”
(48:45) - Episode Roundup: Podcast@Zacks.com
Science is bringing the future to you faster every year and this requires a mind wide open
(0:45) - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
(5:10) - Meet the Huxleys: Evolution’s Grand Champions
(10:15) - The Chaos Theory of Learning & Unstoppable Creativity
(16:10) - Books for Minds Wide Open: Bill Nye and Richard Feynman
(23:45) - The Death of Doubt: Why We Pretend To Know It All
(28:00) - The Wrong Ways To Use Science
(31:50) - The Future Of Education
(37:30) - Episode Roundup: Podcast@Zacks.com
At the risk of over-simplifying, I crystallize my favorite principles into lessons for all future bull markets
(0:45) - Navigating the Bull Market
(6:00) - Following The Smart Money
(8:45) - Kevin’s Market Melt-Up Recipe
(11:30) - 3 Wealth-Building Rules for Bull Markets
(18:00) - A Quick Look at How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
Why do the same bad investing decisions keep cropping up for some people?
(1:00) - Are You a Trader or Long Term Investor?
(5:00) - A Quiz on Your Psychology of Investing
(10:45) - Should You Be Listening To Everything Your Advisor Says?
(13:50) - What Should You Do With An Inheritance?
(21:15) - How To Navigate A Market Correction
(25:10).- Loss Aversion, Confirmation and Availability Bias
(35:40) - Long Term Investing vs. Short Term Trading
(41:40) - Episode Roundup: Podcast@Zacks.com
Long before anyone noticed what smartphones did to kids, a wise teacher warned us about the dangers of our devices
(0:30) - Judgement Day: Big Investors Write a Letter To Apple
(5:30) - Smartphone Addiction: How Did We Get Here?
(8:20) - Neil Postman: A Wise Teacher Ahead Of His Time
(11:00) - The Medium Is The Message
(17:30) - Perfecting Captivation: Tantalizing Television
(22:40) - Technopoly: The Dystopia That’s Not Fiction
(36:15) - Can Everything “Bad” Be Good For You?
(30:00) - Technology Can Enhance or Ensnare our Education
Resist as he might, Michael Lewis couldn’t help but write the story of the partnership that created the most exciting economic power since the invention of money
(0:30) - The Collision of Markets and Psychology
(5:30) - The Great Partnership of Kahneman and Tversky
(12:00) - CES in Vegas: What Should You Be Watching?
(20:00) - The Undeniable Force Behind The Undoing Project
(31:15) - Train Your Brain for Market Strategy with Probability
(33:35) - Episode Roundup: Podcast@Zacks.com
AI is not a replacement for stock-picking, but it will become a powerful ally against bad decision-making
(0:20) - qplum: Deep learning & AI Based Trading Strategy
(3:30) - AI Disruption On Asset Management Industry
(7:00) - Customized Portfolios: How AI Is Useful To Investors
(11:00) - Adjustment and Rebalancing Strategies of qplum
(15:30) - Tax Efficiency & qplum Integration With Brokers
(18:00) - qplum's Assets Under Management & Performance
(21:10) - How Will qplum Survive The Next Bear Market?
(25:00) - Episode Roundup: Podcast@Zacks.com
New risk management for the newest asset class is a welcome innovation, but requires different knowledge and skills than buy-and-hold
(0:45) - Bitcoin Surges Over $12,000... then $13K
(5:10) - 6 Starter Insights to Trade Bitcoin
(15:45) - How Will Large Futures Traders Impact Bitcoin?
(18:40) - What's Good About Futures Contracts?
(26:50) - The Crucial Function of the Clearing House
(30:10) - Contract Specs: CBOE & CME Bitcoin Designs
(36:00) - Futures Trading Can Be A Double-Edge Sword
(41:00) - Episode Roundup: Podcast@Zacks.com
In just 5 years, two new "exponential technologies" have been created that will dramatically change the world
(0:25) - Nothing Changes Economics and Behavior Like New Technology
(4:00) - The "Fear Of Missing Out" On Bitcoin Pushes it Over $10,000
(11:10) - 4 Thinkers Who Influence Bitcoin Mania
(18:30) - Genetic Disruption: CRISPR-Cas9
(23:00) - CRISPR Creator Becomes Its Cassandra
(28:30) - The Brave New World of Gene Editing
(32:40) - Episode Roundup: Podcast@Zacks.com
Technology is reshaping life and business so fast that intelligent adaptation could be the #1 skill of the 21st century
(0:30) - Hot Topics for Family Get-Togethers
(4:00) - Exponential Technologies: Change at the Speed of Light
(10:30) - Futurist Alvin Toffler's “Predictable” Life
(16:00) - Anti-Technology Ideology: Neo-Luddism
(21:00) - Overview of Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes
(24:45) - Jennifer Doudna: CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing
(33:00) - The Internet of Everything: BlackEnergy Malware
(39:00) - No Opt-Out: Handling the Speed of Change
(43:30) - Episode Roundup: Podcast@Zacks.com
Why the leading cryptocurrency has been strongly validated in the past month and dispels the bubble talk
(1:30) - Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Revolution
(12:00) - Bitcoin Volatility: The Hard Fork
(17:00) - Square Testing Integration Of Bitcoin
(22:00) - Zimbabwe Coup Spikes Bitcoin Over $13,500
(27:00) - CME Bitcoin Futures: Regulated Price Discovery & Arbitrage
(36:00) - Xbox One X and Tesla Updates
(41:30) - Episode Roundup: Podcast@Zacks.com
Jamie Dimon’s JPMorgan just launched a Blockchain platform based on a very different cryptocurrency.
(0:25) - Bitcoin Surges Past $7,000 on CME Futures Contract
(4:00) - Jamie Dimon: "Bitcoin Is A Fraud!"
(11:00) - What the Heck is a Blockchain?
(14:40) - Ethereum = Expanded Capability vs. Bitcoin
(18:20) - The Blockchain Revolution: Why Cryptocurrency Matters
(23:45) - Bitcoin = First Generation of World-Changing Idea
(32:20) - Episode Roundup: Podcast@Zacks.com
Fintech innovations are changing investing tools and behavior in powerful ways that you must begin to explore.
(0:30) - Automated Financial Management: Betterment & Wealthfront
(5:30) - Burton Malkiel: Are Markets Too Random?
(9:00) - Resources for the Deep Learning / AI Future We Face
(16:40) - qplum: Automated Investing Using AI and Data Science
(25:45) - Concerns with qplum: Will the Same Science Work for All?
(31:00) - Takeaways from qplum
(35:45) - Episode Roundup: Podcast@Zacks.com
The power of AI will take over the world with “invisible robots” making life easier, better, faster
(0:30) - AI and Deep Learning: Tools Not Tyrants
(6:00) - How DeepStack Uses Intuition in Poker
(14:45) - DeepMind’s AlphaGo Zero Drops a Bomb
(19:30) - Psychology Meets AI: Mariano Sigman
(24:40) - The Invisible Robots Are Coming!
(35:00) - Episode Roundup: Podcast@Zacks.com