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EPISODE · Jun 6, 2026 · 22 MIN

How Index Funds Warp the Market

from Books, Ideas & Life Lessons · host The Insight Project

Index funds are the closest thing personal finance has to areligion. We're not here to break that religion — we're here to interrogate it.We walk through three real, growing risks that index investors should at leastbe awake to: concentration creep, price-insensitive buying, and the governancevacuum no one talks about. This isn't an active-management pitch. It's theadult version of passive investing literacy.KEYWORD TAGSindex funds · passive investing · fire movement · bogle · S&P 500 · concentration risk · michael burry · vanguard · blackrock · investing critique

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