In Episode 16 of the Rational Reminder Podcast we talked about the following:

• How bad was last week's market volatility?
• Should you make changes to your portfolio in this market?
• Are people better at predicting when markets are volatile?
• How the market prices securities
• The economy vs. the stock market
• When do bear markets typically occur?
• Will passive investing exacerbate the next correction?
• Do index funds affect price discovery?
• The power of capitalism
• Index reconstitution
• Risk over the long-term
• Quant investing does not always pass robustness tests
• 50% of business is marketing
• Devil's in the HML details
• Dimensional has thought of everything

The charts that we talked about:

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