Ben Carlson

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Stock Club · #315: How to Invest Through Booms, Busts & Bubbles (w/ Ben Carlson) · 11 Jun 2026 podcast

So they have to merge.

And so, again, I'm not smart enough to know, but that's six months to talk about that.

All right.

I've been thinking about this for a while.

Obviously, the information age is a big part of it.

Improved technology, more computers and algorithms.

And there's more people involved in the markets now.

I wrote about it in the book a little bit, how people talk about how the Great Depression crash was, but, I don't know, 2% of households owned stocks back then.

No one could afford to own stocks.

Now, in the U.S., it's 60% to 65% of households own stock in some form.

Everything has just become more financialized.

and the speed of information, adding things like social media, if you just think about how much

How much is available to regular investors?

You've heard the stories about Buffett back in the day.

When he wanted to invest in Geico, he goes and knocks on the door to the HQ and talks to the CEO.

And if he wanted a quarterly report, he'd have to send away for it and they'd mail it to him.

Now, all that information is available at everyone's fingertips with a click of a button.

You can trade on your phone immediately.

There's more investment products, there's more investment services.

There's more research and data and knowledge about the markets.

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