The biases that cost you money | Signals and Noise, July 10

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This week's Signals & Noise is live. The theme: we all carry investing biases without noticing, and the ones that go unchecked are the ones that cost money. Recency, availability, anchoring, priming, frequency and media bias, six mental shortcuts that get emotion to crowd out the numbers, and the process we use to catch each one.

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