On this episode we take things around the world, covering everything from Brexit and the late Christopher Hitchens to index funds and the common sense of JFK. Sorry it’s been a while in between drinks.

Show highlights

• Finding time to read while being a good (new) Dad
• How fees dominate the financial advice industry (managing your own super deprives the financial advice sector of an estimated $14 to $20 billion annually in fees)
• Thinking differently about banks – how their true customers are the people that lend to them, not so much mortgage holders
• Remembering Christopher Hitchens – a consistent polemicist and anti-fascist
• JFK’s speeches and common sense advocacy of tax cuts that help the economy, which in turn helps everyone (not a select few)
• Jordan’s knife collection and the Hong Kong dollar

Resources/People/Articles Mentioned in the Podcast

• The Dhandho Investor: The Low-Risk Value Method to High Returns by Mohnish Pabrai
• The death of civilised debate by Douglas Murray
• Australian investor John Hempton
• The Faith of Christopher Hitchens by Larry Alex Taunton
• JFK’s 1961 speech to the UN General Assembly and 1946 speech Why I Am a Democrat
• The good guy/bad guy myth by Catherine Nichols
• Jonah Goldberg’s chat with Russ Roberts on Econtalk

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