School of Hard Knocks Investing

School of Hard Knocks Investing


Latest Episodes

Episode 4: A Lot of Meaning and a Lot of Impact
March 29, 2018

In 2008, the market was going bananas. Before that time, people viewed homeownership as the unshakable bedrock of middle-class society. Dave Goetsch and Norm Mindel look back at the financial crisis and the dramatic effect it had on investors. At a...

Episode 3: Grief and Aggravation: The Tech Bubble
February 27, 2018

Under pressure. In the late 1990s, we were on the verge of an internet bubble that momentarily taught people the meaning of fly by night. Investors were taking big risks on individual stocks and untested (and sometimes unstaffed) internet companies. A...

Episode 2: Finishing Is Winning
January 18, 2018

Crash, boom, bang! The sounds of Wall Street in the 1980s. Dave Goetsch and Norm Mindel discuss the years leading into the 1990s, which provided more than one defining moment in financial history. Dave and Norm recall what it felt like to live through...

Episode 1: The Fallout From All Those Shelters
December 11, 2017

Investing by the decade...first stop, the 70s. Dave Goetsch and Norm Mindel discuss investing in the late 1970s when Jimmy Carter was president, Johnny Carson was the host of The Tonight Show and t