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Lessons from the Financial History of Pandemics, feat. Jamie Catherwood
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Length:
35 minutes
Released:
May 20, 2020
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Podcast episode
Description
Jamie Catherwood works at O’Shaughnessy Asset Management, a quantitative long-equity investment firm. More importantly, however, he is the finance history guy on Twitter. His “Financial History: Sunday Reads” curation pieces and longer form articles on his site Investor Amnesia have become required reading for anyone who wants the historical context for current financial issues. On this episode of The Breakdown, Jamie and NLW discuss: Financial lessons from previous pandemics, including the 14th century bubonic plague; an 1892 Cholera outbreak in Hamburg, Germany; and, of course, 1918 Strange parallels between 1918’s Spanish flu and the currentcCoronavirus crisis, including an increase in the price of oranges The concept of “Minsky Moments, a key inflection point in bubbles where over-exuberant markets become unwound extremely quickly
Released:
May 20, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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