Investment Principles and Strategies' podcast

The show analyzes emerging economic and social developments, identifying the most critical issues impacting investment success. It looks at globally disruptive changes and strategies to profit from these new market forces. Innovation, advanced technologies, geopolitics, and new interrelated factors are essential components to future investment success.

AI is Not Magic 12/05/2025

AI is Not Magic This is a counterargument to the hyperbolic claims surrounding artificial intelligence, insisting it should be viewed as a transformative but gradual general-purpose technology rather than a magical or superhuman entity. AI will unfold over decades, constrained by human institutions, policies, and slow adoption rates. AGI is not imminent. AI is a tool that will remain under human control; the most credible risks are systemic and societal—such as bias, inequality, and misinformation—mirroring challenges from past technological revolutions. To effectively manage these issues, policy must emphasize resilience, robust human oversight, and sector-specific regulation rather than broad restrictions based on speculative existential threats /episode/index/show/investmentprinciplesandstrategies/id/39296135

The Point of The Point 10/06/2022

The Point of The Point Life’s dramatic and unexpected change keeps us vital and longing to see what will happen next. To experience, to travel, to be a loose-fitting component to a tightly fitted place. Anywhere one can be a loose component and absorb the unique experiences of societies and cultures where we will never fit. I am not finished. It is easy to give up sometimes, especially when one feels tired, and abandoned, and, like many, the best is behind me. What is the point of continuing? Like The Point, the point is to go on. One is never finished. The realm of the Gods will come fast enough. /episode/index/show/investmentprinciplesandstrategies/id/24608862

The Point of the Point 10/06/2022

The Point of the Point Life’s dramatic and unexpected change keeps us vital and longing to see what will happen next. To experience, to travel, to be a loose-fitting component to a tightly fitted place. Anywhere one can be a loose component and absorb the unique experiences of societies and cultures where we will never fit. I am not finished. It is easy to give up sometimes, especially when one feels tired, and abandoned, and, like many, the best is behind me. What is the point of continuing? Like The Point, the point is to go on. One is never finished. The realm of the Gods will come fast enough. /episode/index/show/investmentprinciplesandstrategies/id/24607917

Investment Strategies and Irrationality 04/28/2022

Investment Strategies and Irrationality Investment success combines predicting the future, the confidence to make bold choices, and the fortitude to stay with those choices. Today's volatile and uncertain world requires new knowledge and perspective and assembling relevant facts from many diverse sources to make better decisions and achieve superior returns. There is no simple formula. Thoughtful observation of complex factors, understanding their interrelation, and predicting the outcome of their interaction is challenging. Media-based quips are usually misguided, superficial, and potentially catastrophic. /episode/index/show/investmentprinciplesandstrategies/id/22640267

Transformation, Opportunity, and Absurdity 04/28/2022

Transformation, Opportunity, and Absurdity Some of the world's most important industries are being profoundly impacted by new technological innovations and platforms, such as artificial intelligence, digital assets, blockchain-based businesses, gene editing, and DNA sequencing, enabling unprecedented disruption to business and economic models. Stable predictability is increasingly anachronistic. Every company or industry will either be a disrupter or disrupted. The leading growth companies of today stand an excellent chance to be memories tomorrow. /episode/index/show/investmentprinciplesandstrategies/id/22642784

Digital Assets, Distributed Ledgers, and the Future of Capital Markets 04/28/2022

Digital Assets, Distributed Ledgers, and the Future of Capital Markets Distributed ledger technology (Blockchain) and digital assets have the potential to dramatically disrupt global equity and debt markets. This will decentralize critical data and enable an entirely new financial system where capital flows without the need for traditional intermediaries. It is an irreversible disruptive force transforming capital markets and the global financial system. /episode/index/show/investmentprinciplesandstrategies/id/19841381

Digital Assets, the Environment, and Green Energy 04/28/2022

Digital Assets, the Environment, and Green Energy Digital currencies, crypto assets, digitized securities, and distributed ledgers require an enormous amount of power. While the combination of these assets is subject to tremendous hype, the environmental impact has been mostly ignored. However, this is changing because there has been increasing alarm about crypto’s carbon footprint and environmental impact. /episode/index/show/investmentprinciplesandstrategies/id/19872395

Tech Policy and Unintended Consequences 08/17/2021

Tech Policy and Unintended Consequences Technology is facing China’s crackdown, rising resistance to social media, and government control. /episode/index/show/investmentprinciplesandstrategies/id/20176643

Noise and Unpredictability 08/24/2021

Noise and Unpredictability Inflation fears, currency tremors, market jitters, and emotional vacillation causing joy and terror because all these outcomes seem equally likely. No realistic gauge is showing reliable directions for key metrics. Near-term data usually predicts the near-term future, and that usually gives us a reasonable sense of comfort about the markets, and how to plan, prepare, predict, and withstand anticipated market moves. But that is not the case now. /episode/index/show/investmentprinciplesandstrategies/id/20247401

Life Sciences: The Real, the Hoped, and the Hyped 10/19/2021

Life Sciences: The Real, the Hoped, and the Hyped Drug development platforms such as mRNA, CRISPR, and gene therapies combined with cost-effective development are creating spectacular economic opportunities. /episode/index/show/investmentprinciplesandstrategies/id/20872907

Ptolemy, Galileo, and Financial Markets 08/23/2021

Ptolemy, Galileo, and Financial Markets Supply and demand aren't supposed to impact stock prices. Asset-pricing theory says prices in financial markets are determined by expected future cash flows rather than buying and selling dynamics. Therefore, stocks and bonds are mostly immune from supply and demand determining prices. This is nonsense. /episode/index/show/investmentprinciplesandstrategies/id/20235200

Important and Unknowable 07/31/2021

Important and Unknowable It is impossible to know the answer. This critically important metric is not knowable. There is an intelligent argument on both sides, but there is no way of knowing the outcome of the inputs we have seen over the last 16 months. So perhaps the best advice, to quote Charles Bukowski, is "don't try." /episode/index/show/investmentprinciplesandstrategies/id/19990121

The 6,000 Year Bubble 07/03/2021

The 6,000 Year Bubble Gold is built on a collective belief in its value. There is nothing fundamentally "inherent" other than an agreed-upon value. The same is true with Bitcoin and all asset prices. /episode/index/show/investmentprinciplesandstrategies/id/19695950

Being Digital 06/05/2021

Being Digital Unprecedented disruption was unleashed when globalized infrastructure could instantly deliver all products and services via a worldwide digital infrastructure and network. /episode/index/show/investmentprinciplesandstrategies/id/19365065

Digital Assets - Terror and Opportunity 05/20/2021

Digital Assets - Terror and Opportunity A trading floor in every pocket looking for disruptive investment opportunities charging forward with an out-of-control abandon toward cryptocurrency. This is a sideshow to the most important development. It's decentralized finance, a powerful emerging force in global finance. /episode/index/show/investmentprinciplesandstrategies/id/19182113

Digital Central Banks 05/11/2021

Digital Central Banks Because bureaucratic governments handle innovation so well. /episode/index/show/investmentprinciplesandstrategies/id/19068350

Ethereum 05/11/2021

Ethereum The Ethereum platform is more than just a host for cryptocurrency. A broad range of digital assets can be created and transacted making it a potential dominant digital asset blockchain development tool. /episode/index/show/investmentprinciplesandstrategies/id/19067906

Stimulus and Silliness 05/11/2021

Stimulus and Silliness The world economy is struggling. During the worst of this pandemic, the world's developed economies provided an enormous fiscal stimulus on a scale not seen since the second world war. /episode/index/show/investmentprinciplesandstrategies/id/19067672

Understanding Risk 05/11/2021

Understanding Risk Risk is the permanent loss of capital. It is not volatility, nor is it uncertainty. It is the realization of a loss. Therefore, risk is only clear with hindsight. Understanding how risk works avoids the mistakes that cause the permanent loss of capital. /episode/index/show/investmentprinciplesandstrategies/id/19067540

Inequality and Wealth Creation 05/11/2021

Inequality and Wealth Creation Inequality is not a problem worth solving. If everyone does better but a few people do much better, inequality increases, yet this is a desirable outcome. Creating opportunity for the most people is what matters. /episode/index/show/investmentprinciplesandstrategies/id/19064954

Predictability and Panic 04/17/2021

Predictability and Panic Markets are assumed to be predictable, however, with increasing regularity, panicked movements drive valuations. Social media and ubiquitous smartphones are a recipe for increased market volatility and more dramatic supply and demand swings leading to panic and investment disruptions. /episode/index/show/investmentprinciplesandstrategies/id/18760022

Uncertainty and irrationality 04/17/2021

Uncertainty and irrationality This discussion highlights that market uncertainty is a constant and increasing influence on investment valuations. Coupled with irrational investment behavior, which permeates market pricing at all times, investment strategies ignoring these components will fail. /episode/index/show/investmentprinciplesandstrategies/id/18759911

Lessons from a Failed Investment Fund 03/31/2021

Lessons from a Failed Investment Fund The Archegos implosion teaches the same lessons that need to be taught repeatedly. /episode/index/show/investmentprinciplesandstrategies/id/18545027

Education and Research 03/30/2021

Education and Research Research and academic rigor are essential to understanding security valuation, competitive analysis, market conditions, geopolitical updates, technological innovations, market disruptions, and emerging trends. All essential to successful investing /episode/index/show/investmentprinciplesandstrategies/id/18529262

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