Zach Carter is a senior reporter at The Huffington Post and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy and the Life of John Maynard Keynes.

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Robert Plomin is one of the world's leading behavioural geneticists. He is currently MRC Research Professor in Behavioural Genetics at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London.

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Jack A. Goldstone is an American sociologist and is widely regarded as one of the world's leading experts on the subject of revolutions.

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Mark Cuban is an American billionaire investor, entrepreneur and TV personality.

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Frank Wilczek won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004 and is considered one of the world’s most eminent theoretical physicists.

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Benjamin M. Friedman is widely recognised as one of the world's leading macroeconomists. He is currently the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University.

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Joe Henrich is Professor and Chair of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. He is the author of The Secret of Our Success and The Weirdest People in the World.

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Sir Angus Deaton is a Nobel Prize-winning economist and coauthor of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism.

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David Sloan Wilson is an evolutionary biologist.

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John Hempton is co-founder and Chief Investment Officer at Bronte Capital.

Selected links

• Follow John: Blog | Twitter
• 'Approaches to Studying Policy Representation', paper by David Broockman
• 'Indebted Demand', paper by Atif Mian, Ludwig Straub and Amir Sufi

Topics discussed

• Lessons from past market cycles. 4:51
• Astarra-Trio. 10:43
• Retail investors: Welcome to the party. 24:14
• When John met Jim (Simons). 28:13
• Can you predict market tops? 33:00
• Are there any good reasons for believing this time really is different? 40:37
• The Dunning-Kruger effect is everywhere. 52:18
• A behavioural model of the coronavirus. 55:45
• The illusion of the political centre. 1:10:19
• How inequality may be distorting monetary policy, and vice versa. 1:23:00
• SPAC attack. 1:26:03
• The puzzle of Middleby. 1:31:15
• Bull masturbating. 1:33:01
• 2020: a year of puzzles. 1:42:30

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