Jason Zweig: "The Devil's Financial Dictionary and The Intelligent Investor" | Talks at Google

Jason Zweig will discuss his latest book, The Devil's Financial Dictionary, and how he went about distilling everything he had learned in almost three decades as an investing journalist into definitions of Wall Street terms that are, in many cases, only a few words long. Markets are driven much more by psychology and history than by economics. In writing The Devil's Financial Dictionary, Zweig was guided largely by a saying of his father's: "It's remarkable how much you have to learn in order to realize how little you need to know." “This is the most amusing presentation of the principles of finance that I have ever seen.” —Robert J. Shiller, professor of finance, Yale University; Nobel laureate in economics; author of Irrational Exuberance “Part social commentary, part instruction manual, Zweig’s book is must-reading for anyone who presumes or desires to understand the investment world…. Like the book in which they’re contained, each of Zweig’s entries is pointed, witty, and revealing of important and useful truths. The Devil himself, a.k.a., [Ambrose] Bierce, would be proud.” —TIME About the Author Jason Zweig writes a weekly column, "The Intelligent Investor," for The Wall Street Journal. He is the author of The Devil's Financial Dictionary, a satirical glossary of financial terms; Your Money and Your Brain, on the neuroscience and psychology of financial decision-making; and The Little Book of Safe Money, an investing guide. The editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor and co-editor of Benjamin Graham: Building a Profession, Zweig also assisted the Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman in writing his book, Thinking, Fast and Slow. Before joining The Wall Street Journal, Zweig worked at Money, Forbes and TIME.

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1. sourav, the audio quality is very very poor, we could get any clarity !! please see if u can help in anyway //
2. Google sure has a lack of understanding. Let me explain for YouTube viewers. For presenters using power point for their presentation, the YouTube viewer only is given a teaser view of the power point information. Obviously, if the technology was up to minimum standards, we YouTube viewers would not only see a talking head, we would also be exposed to the power point presentation. Just make a photographic memory so you can get up to speed after you have listen to the presenter chew his cud. Shame on Google for having the technology and not knowing how to use it.
3. Great insights from Jason Zweig -- a wonderfully wise, insightful, and entertaining observer of financial markets.
4. It's great but he's almost inaudible, Google fix your microphones!
5. I'll purchase the book when his investments have averaged 20% per year over the last 10 years. Until then, he's just a book salesman to me; not a professional investor.
6. It's another google talk that I wanted to watch but bailed because of poor audio. Could you please do something about it!
7. Dear google, I love googletalks. Could you please upload two versions for each talk, highly edited one only with highlights, 15mins max
   And then the full one. It will drastically change channel ratings. Thank you!
8. Thank you!
   Excellent talk with powerful ideas.