How Not To Be Dumb Money
9 min readJul 8, 2021
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Why believe a title that says I’d know how to tell dumb from smart money? Because I’ve been both and learned from financial scars accumulated since 1987. I’ve also taught a behavioral investing course called “The History of Human Financial Stupidity — Including Mine”. I had no shortage of my own dumb money cases to give students.
In Liar’s Poker Michael Lewis defined Wall St as a system designed to transfer money from…