In Episode 9 of the Rational Reminder podcast we discussed the following:

• Being a poor grad student
• Budgeting
• Stuff does not make you happy
• Mental overhead is a real cost
• The Globe's Financial Facelift disaster
• Rob Arnott's slam of Dimensional
• Are people afraid of stocks?
• The 10-year anniversary of Lehman's fall
• Stories from the financial crisis
• Volatility in dollars vs. percentage points
• Automated rebalancing
• My uncle told me to buy weed stocks
• What does a rational investor worry about?

The stories we talked about:

• Great savers, not so great at investing
• Psychic Trauma
• How the Financial Crisis Still Affects Investors

The chart we talked about:

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