Kick the Dogma

New Ep is Up! Bankers brought the global economic system to its knees in 2007 and nearly did the same in 2020. Both times, the US government bailed out the banks and left them in control. How can we end this cycle of trillion-dollar bailouts and make finance work for the rest of us? Busting the Bankers' Club confronts the powerful people and institutions that benefit from our broke

We are on the verge of a major paradigm shift for investors in the U.S. stock market. Dividend-focused stock investing has been receding in popularity for more than three decades in the U.S.; once the dominant investment style, it is now a boutique approach. That is about to change. The Ownership Dividend explains how and why the stock market drifted away from a mostly cash-based r

New Ep is up!Today we have Michael D Smith, Professor of Information Technology and Marketing at Carnegie Mellon, and the author of the new book, The Abundant University: Remaking Higher Education for a Digital World.College has been in the news a lot the last few years, mostly due to the skyrocketing cost and the student loan debt crisis. Also, the Varsity Blues admissions scandal

New Ep is up! Today we have our first returning guest, Dr. Amy Finkelstein, economics professor at MIT, co-author (with Liran Einav) of today’s subject, the book We’ve Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care, but also co-author of Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to Do About It, the subject of an interview from earlier this year. Amy and her co-author

Welcome to Kick the Dogma, the podcast where we interview authors of books on investing, economics, behavioral finance, and business more generally. Today’s episode is an interview with Algy Hall, author of Four Ways to Beat the Market: A practical guide to stock-screening strategies to help you pick winning shares. Algy is a journalist, and just over ten years ago he started tra

What Tight Labor Markets Do For The Poor. Another timely book and discussion, as unemployment remains near historic lows, wages and benefits rise, and the traditionally disenfranchised enter the labor force. Specifically, the book addresses structural change that occur below an already low unemployment rate (think Peter Berezin’s kinked Phillips curve), and only at those levels o

New Ep is up! Today we get to talk to Joe Wiggins, author of The Intelligent Fund Investor: Practical Steps for Better Results in Active and Passive Funds. Joe is also a senior portfolio manager, putting the tools he describes in the book to work every day. Joe and I agree that equity markets are not efficient, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they are easy to beat for an active

New Ep is up! If you aren’t already excited about insurance markets, this episode will convert you. Amy Finkelstein is a professor at MIT and co-author of Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to Do About It. Insurance is about risk management. But the markets are inefficient, sometimes wildly so. Sometimes they “function” and other times they fail, i.e., the de

On today’s episode we have Jim Edwards, former editor-in-chief of Insider’s news division, and author of Say Thank You For Everything: The Secrets of Being a Great Manager, Strategies and Tactics That Get Results. I personally had a blast talking to Jim, I know you’ll enjoy listening to him. Jim draws from a combination of his own experiences with leadership, successes and fa

New Ep is up! Another take on ESG investing, this time more of a European perspective. I was joined by Becky O’Connor, editor of and contributor to The ESG Investing Handbook: Insights and Developments In Environmental, Social & Governance Investment. Becky is head of pension and savings at interactive investor. She co-founded the ethical sustainable personal finance website Good