Uploaded June 2018 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Take a random walk down wall-street to see the revolutionary monkey-man who changed it all.
Today we're talking game theory, investment strategies, the efficient market hypothesis and at the very end I have a special life announcement!!!
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Hear the music again:
Cowboy Bebop OST
itunes.apple.com/us/album/cowboy-bebop-original-soundtrack/489780131
jinsang - providah, gone
jinsangbeats.bandcamp.com/album/confessions
Read the shownotes:
Burton Malkiel - A Random Walk Down Wall-Street (PDF)
http://site.iugaza.edu.ps/wdaya/files/2013/03/A-Random-Walk-Down-Wall-Street.pdf
Forbes: Any Monkey Can Beat the Market
forbes.com/sites/rickferri/2012/12/20/any-monkey-can-beat-the-market/#699ab2df630a
SPIVA 2017 Year End Score Card
us.spindices.com/documents/spiva/spiva-us-year-end-2017.pdf
Marketwatch - How HedgeFunds got beaten again
marketwatch.com/story/how-hedge-fund-geniuses-got-beaten-by-monkeys-again-2015-06-25
Does Past Performance Matter - Persistence Remains Elusive
ifa.com/articles/does_past_performance_matter_view_from_jones_indices
Index Fund
investopedia.com/terms/i/indexfund.asp
Efficient Market Hypothesis
investopedia.com/terms/e/efficientmarkethypothesis.asp
Sink your teeth into more:
RoboInvestors
investorjunkie.com/44371/robo-advisors-reduce-cost-investing
Tax Loss Harvesting
investopedia.com/terms/t/taxgainlossharvesting.asp
Smart-Beta ETFs
nytimes.com/2017/06/22/business/burton-malkiel-investment-stock-index-funds.html
robeco.com/en/insights/2017/12/academic-research-absolutely-supports-smart-beta.html
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financial disclaimer: This video does not constitute investment advice. No one should make any investment decision without first consulting his or her own financial advisor and conducting his or her own research and due diligence.
Take a random walk down wall-street to see the revolutionary monkey-man who changed it all.
Today we're talking game theory, investment strategies, the efficient market hypothesis and at the very end I have a special life announcement!!!
Talk with the people:
reddit.com/r/coffeebreak
Follow the madman:
Twitter: twitter.com/coffeebreak_YT
Facebook: facebook.com/CoffeeBreak42
Support the work:
Patreon: patreon.com/Coffee_Break
Hear the music again:
Cowboy Bebop OST
itunes.apple.com/us/album/cowboy-bebop-original-soundtrack/489780131
jinsang - providah, gone
jinsangbeats.bandcamp.com/album/confessions
Read the shownotes:
Burton Malkiel - A Random Walk Down Wall-Street (PDF)
http://site.iugaza.edu.ps/wdaya/files/2013/03/A-Random-Walk-Down-Wall-Street.pdf
Forbes: Any Monkey Can Beat the Market
forbes.com/sites/rickferri/2012/12/20/any-monkey-can-beat-the-market/#699ab2df630a
SPIVA 2017 Year End Score Card
us.spindices.com/documents/spiva/spiva-us-year-end-2017.pdf
Marketwatch - How HedgeFunds got beaten again
marketwatch.com/story/how-hedge-fund-geniuses-got-beaten-by-monkeys-again-2015-06-25
Does Past Performance Matter - Persistence Remains Elusive
ifa.com/articles/does_past_performance_matter_view_from_jones_indices
Index Fund
investopedia.com/terms/i/indexfund.asp
Efficient Market Hypothesis
investopedia.com/terms/e/efficientmarkethypothesis.asp
Sink your teeth into more:
RoboInvestors
investorjunkie.com/44371/robo-advisors-reduce-cost-investing
Tax Loss Harvesting
investopedia.com/terms/t/taxgainlossharvesting.asp
Smart-Beta ETFs
nytimes.com/2017/06/22/business/burton-malkiel-investment-stock-index-funds.html
robeco.com/en/insights/2017/12/academic-research-absolutely-supports-smart-beta.html
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financial disclaimer: This video does not constitute investment advice. No one should make any investment decision without first consulting his or her own financial advisor and conducting his or her own research and due diligence.

![What 40,000 Videos Tell Us About The Trending Tab
Is the trending tab rigged against creators? Is late night dominating the charts? Why does it feel your favorite controversial creator never trends. All of that and more, in the first ever data-driven look at the trending tab.
To see the nuts and bolts of this video, a more in-depth explanation of what I did, go here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEvtpj-uChA
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Music:
Marc Rebillet [dude is a musical genius]
https://www.youtube.com/user/marcrebillet
Letskey
https://soundcloud.com/letskey
Shownotes:
Mitchell Jollys Website
https://mitchelljolly.com/
Original Dataset collected by Mitchell
https://www.kaggle.com/datasnaek/youtube-new/kernels
Classification was done by myself and over 70 others who contributed to crowdsourcing our data for the US Dataset.
To see more about how I made this video, a more in-depth explanation of what I did, go here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEvtpj-uChA
Want to know about other work thats being done at looking at the output of these impossibly complicated algorithms?
https://algotransparency.org/
Ever want a look at what trending would be like without the bias? Check out Rian Hunters work on Fair Trending!!!!
https://www.fairtrending.com/?lang=en
A brilliant video from Derek of Veritasium about how to think about trending videos: My Video Went Viral. Heres Why | It was a huge Today I found out moment and he even helped me with this videos thumbnail!!! Go give him some love, not that he needs it after his Why Are 96,000,000 Black Balls on This Reservoir? video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHsa9DqmId8
Featured in Pewdiepie ‘s video KSI is cancelled
See it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SSrvjDaVFA&lc=UgxuiNyOaycvT6KXs0F4AaABAg What 40,000 Videos Tell Us About The Trending Tab](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fDqBeXJ8Zx8/mqdefault.jpg)




![How To Start A Pyramid Scheme
First 500 people to go to https://skl.sh/coffeebreak get 2 months FREE.
The Six Steps To Creating a Legal Pyramid Scheme
1. Find a Product
2. Make a payout structure
3. Sell a Financial Fantasy
4. The Three Key Groups
5. The Training, Attempt, Failure, Event Loop
6. Cut Off The Bad Apples
FOLLOWUP VIDEO: visualizing the real odds of multi level marketing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoWiNx0gqto
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Music:
Lewis OfMan - Yes
https://soundcloud.com/lewis-ofman/yes
Edo Lee - Black Coffee
https://soundcloud.com/edo_lee/black-coffee
ibrahim - enamored (w/Limes)
https://soundcloud.com/ibr/enamored
Seneca B - New York
https://soundcloud.com/senecabeats/new-york
Soirée - Flight
https://soundcloud.com/soireebeats/flight
Aesthesys
https://soundcloud.com/aesthesys/grauer-wald?in=aesthesys/sets/achromata
Shownotes:
[1] Hispanics being targeted: This is a well-documented strategy among MLMs/pyramid-shaped schemes. See companies like Herbalife.
https://wearemitu.com/mitu-world/john-oliver-fires-shots-at-pyramid-schemes-that-target-latinos/
[1.1] If you’re interested in more of the specifics on this exploitation, I highly recommend BETTING ON ZERO. Catch it here if you have Netflix. https://www.netflix.com/title/80108609
[2] Survivorship Bias is the well-known fallacy that if you find yourself successful, you may falsely start believing that anyone can be equally successful, neglecting everyone who tried just as hard and didnt achieve the same things. This runs RAMPANT in pyramid selling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
[3] Only 3/1000 make any money in pyramid schemes after the costs of doing business are added in. Based on analyzing 350 MLMs.
See Dr. Jon Taylors brilliant work here:
https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/public_comments/trade-regulation-rule-disclosure-requirements-and-prohibitions-concerning-business-opportunities-ftc.r511993-00017%C2%A0/00017-57317.pdf
[4] Regulatory Capture
Something that didnt make it into the video explicitly but is worth mentioning. If you find yourself scratching your head, HOW ARE THESE THINGS STILL LEGAL?!, you should look no further than our lovely Federal Trade Commission who has been lobbied to for years and has kept never seriously acted on pyramid schemes except to slap them on the wrist. MLMs own an impressive amount of political power, EX: Amway has DIRECT ties to three (bush sr, clinton, bush jr) of the last 5 sitting presidents.
https://www.theverge.com/2014/4/8/5590550/alleged-pyramid-schemes-lobbying-ftc
More About MLMs
The Dream Podcast - https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/stitcher/the-dream
Dr. Jon Taylor – The Case (for and) Against Multi-level Marketing
https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/public_comments/trade-regulation-rule-disclosure-requirements-and-prohibitions-concerning-business-opportunities-ftc.r511993-00017%C2%A0/00017-57317.pdf
Robert Fitzpatrick – False Profits: Seeking Financial and Spiritual Deliverance in Multi-Level Marketing and Pyramid Schemes
https://www.amazon.com/gp/search?index=books&linkCode=qs&keywords=9780964879515
https://pyramidschemealert.org/about-2/board-of-directors/robert-fitzpatrick/
Christine Richard - https://orionresearch.net/
Christine on QuoththeRaven
https://quoththeraven.podbean.com/e/quoth-the-raven-79-christine-richard-goes-in-deep-on-her-herbalife-research-part-2/
Q&A:
Are you actually talking about MLMs the entire time?
Yes. MLMs and product-driven pyramid schemes are basically a distinction without a difference. And the word multi-level marketing is a bit misleading which is why I avoided it. Its using terminology that was invented to obfuscate what is actually going on. The old word for MLMs was pyramid selling. You can imagine why that was abandoned. Even now, the word multilevel marketing is being distanced from, the new new word is direct selling. Look at the lobbying group Direct Selling Association who is heavily funded by MLMs. I couldnt find the words Multi-Level Marketing anywhere on the website. All this to say, dont let other people control the language of the discussion, otherwise youve lost half the battle. See my previous video on Industry Funded Research, where the gambling lobbying group calls themselves the National Center of Responsible GAMING. Its the same trick being played.
https://www.dsa.org/
Why does the video get so dark?
MLMs have an extremely predatory side to them that I wanted to explore. If you got upset or frustrated in this video, that is probably indicative that you having a working heart. How To Start A Pyramid Scheme](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mBsFxHa2eKw/mqdefault.jpg)



![Why Cops Beat You In The Interrogation Room
you have the right to remain silent, but we know you wont...
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Music in order of appearance:
Witwicky
The Final Problem
The Bruce Partington Plans
The Creeping Man
Taosh Theme
The Three Gables
Coffee Break - Boys in Blue
Shownotes:
Dont Talk to the Police from a lawyers perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE&t=1s
Reid Technique
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reid_technique
Reid Technique 2
https://www.reid.com/
Reid Technique 3
https://www.reid.com/educational_info/critictechnique.html
Reid Technique 4
https://www.cga.ct.gov/2014/rpt/2014-R-0071.htm
Reid Technique 5 (official teaching tool)
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=interrogations+and+confessions
Interrogation Room
https://people.howstuffworks.com/police-interrogation1.htm
Q. Why didnt you talk about good cop bad cop?
A. It seems that while good cop bad cop may be used, it isnt officially endorsed in an interrogation, and isnt part of official training. The presence of it in hollywood movies is way overblown, because it plays into their high-adrenaline, highly visual style.
Q. Is this the only interrogation technique there is?
A. No, the Reid technique is the main interrogation technique in America but it has recently come under fire for producing false confessions. See this great New Yorker article: [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/12/09/the-interview-7]. Because of this, much softer interrogation methods have been looked at that dont try to pressure the suspect. The most popular of these techniques is called the PEACE technique. You can read about it here: [http://smordinlaw.com/police-interrogation/]
Q. Im still interested, is there somewhere else I can go to find more information?
A. Besides the links Ive placed which breadcrumb my research process, there is also a great NPR piece called Good Cop/Bad Cop, I think its similar to this video, focused on the weird dichotomy between real interrogations and how they actually are carried out. [https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=248968150]
Q. Does lie detection work?
A. Not really. This is the reason a lot of people have given up the Reid technique. A huge part of it hinges on the idea that a cop can tell when youre lying, which is the justification for applying so much pressure during the accusation portion. In recent years this claim has fallen under a lot of scrutiny. Body language isnt as reliable of a signal of lying as we thought. This is one of many criticisms of the Reid technique.
Q. Should I ever talk to the police?
A. Only during a traffic stop, where the cops can let you off with a warning if you cooperate and theyre feeling generous. In every other circumstance, talking to the cops can ONLY hurt you. Dont talk to the police!!! Why Cops Beat You In The Interrogation Room](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/p22ZR-CUIw0/mqdefault.jpg)