Ben Carlson

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The Rational Reminder Podcast · Ben Carlson: Investing at All-Time Highs | #412 · 4 Jun 2026 podcast

And that was obviously the biggest one ever for US stocks, at least.

I love the mindset that there really are no free lunches when it comes to investing.

There's always something that you're going to be angry about or it's not going to work.

But I think diversification is about as close as you can get to a period like that.

Actually, US bonds did pretty well, did okay during the Great Depression.

So if you had some sort of liquidity or you probably did okay to have all your money overlaid on the stock market like many people did who were investing at the time,

The other form of risk management is understanding yourself.

What's going to leave you worse off?

What is your blind spot?

Do you overreact to these crashes?

Do you need some more conservative investments?

Or are you a person who like, I just need to be aggressive at all times and I'll take what comes in terms of volatility and the ups and downs.

That's a big form of risk management.

Really, it's just like understanding like what's the lesser version of yourself that's going to cause you the most pain.

Yeah, that's easy.

I do think most people outside of finance, the biggest thing for them is like, are you just on track to achieve your goals?

Jason Zweig at the Wall Street Journal did this story a number of years ago where he went to Florida.

He interviewed all these people in this beautiful golf course resort in Boca Raton or something.

And he was asking them, how did you do it?

How did you retire down here?

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