Spencer Jakab - Meme Stocks and Market Psychology: How Social Influence Shapes Investment Decisions

This week on Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby, Dr. Crosby speaks with Spencer Jakab. Spencer Jakab is the Editor of the WSJ's Heard on the Street. He previously wrote Ahead of the Tape for the Journal and the Lex Column for the Financial Times. He was an analyst and later a director of emerging markets equity research at Credit Suisse and is the author of "Heads I Win, Tails I Win: Why Smart Investors Fail and How to Tilt the Odds in Your Favor." His book about the meme stock squeeze, "The Revolution That Wasn't," comes out on February 1, 2022.

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