My guest today is Peter Borish, founder, chairman, and CEO of Computer Trading Corporation. He's also a founding board member of the Robin Hood Foundation, one of the great American charities. Borish has seen much in the financial world over several decades and is a wealth of insights.
The topics are charity work, political side of money, and trading side.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Roots and successes of Borish's charity work
- Dealing with the fact that you can't help everybody
- Advice to future non-profit workers
- The parallels between non-profits and regular businesses
- Where things stand today, five years after the 2008 financial crisis
- If we're still in an "emergency time" today
- Corporate welfare vs. social welfare
- The lurking black swan and possible equity bubble
- Discussing whether March of 2009 was like July of 1932
- The impact of the internet
- Borish's book recommendations and early experiences
- Taking the emotions out of trading
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