Jon Quast
speaker
8,197 appearances
81 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 21 Sep
Jon Quast’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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If you have any questions for Matt, Rachel, myself, anything having to do with this show, you can email us at podcastatfool.com, and we'd love to hear from you.
We'd love to read your questions on air.
Remember to keep them Foolish.
That email again is podcastatfool.com, podcastatfool.com.
We are going to the mailbag today, and this question came in from a listener named Alex.
I had to tighten it up a little bit.
It was kind of long and there were several questions embedded, but here's my best attempt at summarizing this question for the podcast here.
There's been a huge shift from active investing to passive index funds over the last 25 years.
How has that changed how the stock market behaves?
And so the question here is, does the automatic buying of index funds help prop up the market and make the bull runs longer during the good times?
In a crash, does it make the floor stronger because people leave the money alone, or does it make things worse?
What does passive investing do to market dynamics?
That's really the heart of the question here.
And just to make sure we're all clear, you can invest in companies directly.
That's more the act of investing.
Or you can just buy an index fund or an ETF, which own the shares.
And so that's more the passive angle.
Rachel, we're going to you first here.
So Matt, I'm going to throw you a surprise question here at the end.
This is the final word.
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