Ben Carlson

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1,555 appearances 4 recordings 4 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 11 Jun

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

The fact that there is a long-term fixed rate mortgage in the US is kind of an artifact of history from the Great Depression.

So all of these things, the production in the economy didn't hit those same levels in 1929 until World War II.

And it's funny because after the Great Depression, there's this whole generation of people, they call them generation, Great Depression babies, who were frugal and didn't spend money.

And they reined everything in.

And I think some baby boomers still have that mindset because it was their parents who lived through it.

And it's funny to think through how the pandemic was the opposite of that.

In the pandemic, we all turned into like degenerate gamblers and speculators and everyone wanted to invest.

And it was the complete opposite.

So it is funny how these big events can shape like generations of people.

I really enjoy reading market history, but sometimes it's cool to read people who are actually there.

It's a little easier to have a steady hand when you think about it decades later.

But if you were living through it, yeah, he shared his grandfather's diary.

He made these comments like, man, I think the worst of it's over.

And then a year later, he'd be like, no, the worst was not over.

It kept getting even worse.

And yes, I love those accounts like that that are sort of first person stories.

You look back at something like that on a chart and you go, eh, it would've been fine.

I would've held through it or I would've bought at the bottom.

The point that he makes in that book is it would've been a great buying opportunity for the stock market and no one had any money left.

It was impossible for people to buy the dip because the dips had all been bought and it just kept going down.

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