Ep. 1192: Scott Patterson Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

My guest today is Scott Patterson, an author and a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal, where has written about hedge funds, high-speed trading, Warren Buffett, the global mining industry, the Jan. 6, 2021 investigation, and climate change. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone and Mother Earth News.

The topic is his book Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Unforeseeable outcomes; the risk of Covid
• Mark Spitznagel systematic strategy
• Mark Spitznagel and and Nassim Taleb; extreme volatility and market chaos
• Bill Ackman discretionary trading

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I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

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