What's The Real Value of Your Degree? Aswath Damodaran - #542

Please join my mailing list here 👉 to win a meteorite 💥 Aswath Damodaran joins Brian Keating to argue that markets, universities, and financial models are all suffering the same disease — mistaking mechanical processes for genuine thinking — and explains why Nobel economists aren't billionaires, why academia is the most deserving target for disruption, and why every major asset class is now overpriced with nowhere left to hide. 00:00 Intro 00:01:37 Why Nobel Economists Aren't Billionaires 00:06:08 Universities Have Completely Lost the Plot 00:07:43 95% of Academic Research Is Worthless 00:13:05 The University Is a Sticky Business — But Cracks Are Forming 00:40:00 ChatGPT Already Does What Bankers Charge Millions For 00:46:43 The Most Dangerous Number in Finance 00:52:35 There Is No Safe Place Left to Put Your Money 00:55:48 When Every Asset Is Overpriced, Buy What You Love 01:00:22 We Are Losing Our Ability to Think 01:01:30 Markets Are Smarter Than Experts — Every Single Time ➡️ Follow Aswath Damodaran 🌐 Website: 📚 The Little Book of Valuation: 📝 Musings on Markets (Substack): Join this channel to get access to perks like monthly Office Hours: 📚 Get my books: Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner, with productivity tips from 9 Nobel Prize winners: Focus Like a Nobel Prize Winner, with life-changing interviews with 9 Nobel Prizewinners: My tell-all cosmic memoir Losing the Nobel Prize: The first-ever audiobook from Galileo: Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican Follow me to ask questions of my guests: 🏄‍♂️ Twitter: 🔔

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What's The Real Value of Your Degree? Aswath Damodaran - #542 is an episode from Into the Impossible With Brian Keating by Brian Keating .

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This episode was published on Mar 9, 2026.

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