Economics, AI, and gold

Episode notes In this week's show Allan Shares a book on economics, an article on investing with AI, and a podcast on gold. Allan's thought for the week Allan considers whether, and how, to hedge his portfolio using gold. Book of the week In the spirit of developing your all round knowledge and building mental models to serve you well in your investment process, this week's book recommendation is Economics: The User's Guide, by Ha-Joon Chang. It was written back in 2014 so some of the figures and stats aren't up to date. Nevertheless, it is a great introduction to the subject and well worth at least a flip through. Article of the week So it turns out that chat GPT isn't just for writing bad love poems and drafting emails to folks you don't like much. In this week's article recommendation I learned that investors are using it too. But are they aware of the risks? Experts urge caution about using ChatGPT to pick stocks Podcast of the week This week's podcast recommendation is Merryn Talks Money , Can Gold Keep Rallying? You can find it over on Apple Podcasts here or search for it on your podcast player of choice. Support the show If you want to support the podcast you can: Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or your platform of choice Buy me a coffee Help us both by trying out one of my discount codes: Host your podcast with PineCast using my referral code r-b2ac67 Keep in touch Email the show Visit the website over at smallinvestortoolbox.com Follow the show on Mastodon or Bluesky Music and sound effects Bossa Antigua Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Sound effects from https://quicksounds.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.