
Michael J. Mauboussin
Content creator (Investing)
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Sep 23, 2026
Howard Marks & Michael Mauboussin: The Art of Clear Thinking
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50:55Sean DelaneyHOST
And if we're going to fast forward 30 years into the future and look back, where do you think people are going to be dumbfounded that we didn't concentrate more right now on?

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What I suggested to my students even back then was that they take negotiations courses because negotiations was the closest thing that they could get to understand.

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And what's powerful about negotiation, as you know, is and I'm not a negotiations teacher, but I think that this idea, it's really a valuable idea in life, which is understanding the other person's point of view, right? So you have to understand what is acceptable to you and you have to understand where the other person's coming from.

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And then obviously what you're trying to do is find a solution that's mutually advantageous.

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So this idea of just literally understanding other people, and I think a lot of what comes down in behavioral finance is actually understanding the behaviors and thought processes of other people.
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62:40Sean DelaneyHOST
How much of this is just intuitive sixth sense for you at this point? And how much do you have to look to decision journals or other systematic ways to understand these? There's a
Michael Mauboussin: Base Rates, AI Adoption, and Investing in the Intangible Economy
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32:48Kai WuHOST
Can you maybe just define what intangible assets are and why do they matter? Why do investors even care about them?

Michael MauboussinGUEST
And by the way, again, Kai, you know, I think your listeners probably know this, but you've done some of the best work on this that's out there.

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So I would also recommend that everybody go, if they haven't, I'm sure they've read all your stuff, but if they haven't, they can go back and revisit it and it'll be to their benefit.

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Well, an intangible is basically something that's not tangible, right? So a tangible asset is something that you can look, touch, or feel.

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So the kinds of things that would typically be in that bucket would include things like software code, research and development, advertising, training of your employees.
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46:23Kai WuHOST
They do have assets, the assets just don't show up in the balance sheet because of accounting quirks.
Episode 9: Michael Mauboussin - Head of Consilient Research at Counterpoint Global
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5:56AmirHOST
Can you dive in a little bit to your roles there, what you did?

Michael MauboussinGUEST
Yeah, so the key thing about the, I was at Drexel Burnham in that training program, you know, first part of that was training, which again was remedial for me.

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So learning, going back to basics of accounting and learning a lot of the lingo of Wall Street, super valuable.

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But the second thing that was even perhaps more valuable was we rotated through different departments of the firm.

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And so that gave us exposure to all the trading desks, to investment banking, to research and so forth.

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The end goal of that whole process, by the way, was to be a financial advisor.
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