Ben Carlson

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

It shows that there are outlier events that can happen.

And you have to account for that.

That's not your baseline, of course.

You see those charts that show like, oh, it looks just like 1929 again.

That's a little ridiculous.

But you have to be willing to accept that there are outlier events that can happen.

The extremes can go way further than you think.

I also think policymakers have learned a lot of lessons from that.

The 2008 crisis...

with the government throwing so much money at it and lowering interest rates.

I think they did that fast enough.

A lot of people said because Fed Chair Ben Bernanke studied the Great Depression.

He's like, we're not going to let that happen again.

We are going to be the lender of last resort.

I don't think we get the response from governments around the globe and COVID if they didn't live through 2008 and see that actually throwing money at the problem can help the economy.

And so I think policymakers...

learn their lessons.

It's funny though, because I talk about in the book, there's this concept called normal accidents.

This guy, Charles Perrault, like studied all these nuclear bombs and nuclear reactors and ships and stuff like when things go wrong.

And his whole point is when you have these complex systems like this,

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