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People have a recency bias (that overweights fresh events), an anchoring bias (that overweights past events) and a loss aversion bias (that makes people fear loss more than they desire gain). These biases won’t go away. They’re the result of millions of years of evolution. But once you identify them, you can overcome them personally and factor them into forecasts of market behavior.

People have a recency bias (that overweights fresh events), an anchoring bias (that overweights past events) and a loss aversion bias (that makes people fear loss more than they desire gain). These biases won’t go away. They’re the result of millions of years of evolution. But once you identify them, you can overcome them personally and factor them into forecasts of market behavior.

October 29, 2019 Nate

— Jim Rickards


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