Why do markets rise when the economy looks terrible? Why do prices stay high when inflation falls? And why do intelligent people repeatedly make terrible financial decisions?
The Psychology of Money & Markets explores the forces that shape our financial lives—from inflation, interest rates, recessions, and stock-market bubbles to fear, greed, herd behavior, loss aversion, and FOMO.
Each episode takes one complicated economic or financial idea and makes it understandable, using psychology, economics, history, and real-world examples. No jargon-filled lectures and no obsession with today’s market headlines—just short, accessible explanations of why economies, markets, and the people inside them behave the way they do.
When Wealth Becomes a Scoreboard: Why Rich Investors Keep Taking Risks
Why would an investor with enough money to live comfortably for generations continue taking enormous financial risks? This episode explores how relative wealth, overconfidence, competition, and the desire to outperform others can influence investment decisions. We examine why beating the market may become more psychologically rewarding than achieving financial independence. Discover how the pursuit of status can sometimes turn wealth accumulation into a competition without an endpoint.
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11 Oct 2026
Why Investors Hold Losing Stocks: The Psychology of Refusing to Sell
Why do investors hold onto declining stocks even when better opportunities are available? In this episode of Psychology of Markets, we examine how the sunk cost fallacy, loss aversion, and the disposition effect influence financial decisions. Discover why investors become emotionally attached to their purchase prices, why realizing a loss can feel like admitting failure, and how psychological biases can interfere with rational portfolio management.
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6 Oct 2026
Why Owning It Changes Everything: The Endowment Effect and Market Behavior
Why does something suddenly feel more valuable the moment it belongs to us? Behavioral economists call this the endowment effect — our tendency to demand more money to part with something than we'd have been willing to pay to get it in the first place. This episode looks at how that bias quietly distorts value judgments across houses, cars, stocks, and even old furniture, and why rational pricing models often fail to predict real human behavior. We connect the effect to broader questions about loss aversion and how markets price in psychology that textbooks tend to leave out. It's a short, sharp look at one of behavioral economics' most consistently replicated findings and what it means for how people actually trade, sell, and hold.
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