16 NOV 2022 · Robinhood aims to make investing friendly, approachable, and understandable for newcomers and experts alike. Although trading is free for the user, Robinhood makes a small amount of money for every single trade made on the app. The more you trade, the more money they make. So is making investing free through an app the same as democratization? Show Notes
- Read Devin Mills’ paper assessing the association between trading https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30639898/.
- Haley Sacks has a https://www.financeiscool.com/ on Finance is Cool.
- Learn more about investing with Charles Rotblut’s book: https://www.abebooks.com/9781934354148/Better-Good-Lucky-Savvy-Investors-1934354147/plp
- Special thanks to https://www.thezenofthriftconversions.com/ for his contribution to this episode.
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