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Clay Finck is joined by Brendan Hughes to chat about his new book – Markets in Chaos. The book explores various market crises including the covid-19 pandemic, hyperinflation in Zimbabwe, the stock market bubble in Iceland during the great financial crisis, and much more.
Brendan is a Registered Investment Advisor for Lafayette Investments and has more than a decade of industry experience in investments and public finance. Lafayette Investments has $720 million in assets under management and primarily caters to high-net-worth individuals.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:
00:00 - Intro.
02:12 - What a market crisis is.
05:42 - Why it’s important to study history as investors.
09:11 - What led to hyperinflation in Zimbabwe.
15:14 - The market crisis in Iceland that led to their stock market falling by 95%.
28:09 - The lost decade of Japan.
32:11 - Potential parallels between the bubble in Japan and markets in the US today.
47:53 - Brendan’s biggest takeaways from studying market crises.
53:44 - The US energy crisis in the 1970s.
58:06 - Companies that perform best during inflationary periods.
Disclaimer: Slight discrepancies in the timestamps may occur due to podcast platform differences.
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