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What David Booth is saying
Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, Dimensional Fund Advisors
3 dated public stances tracked since 2026-08-21, most recently 2026-08-21. Each line carries the date and the venue it came from; quotation marks mean verbatim. Methodology.
The stances below are c8alpha's editorial distillation of David Booth's public commentary — television, podcasts, and interviews — compiled by automated transcript analysis and dated to the episode they came from. They may lag the speaker's current view and may contain extraction errors. Text in quotation marks is verbatim from the episode; everything else is our paraphrase. David Booth is not affiliated with c8alpha and has not endorsed this page. Nothing here is investment advice.
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themes
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2026-08-21
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Most-argued themes
| Theme | Stances | Lean | Mix | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BROAD MARKET DIVERSIFICATION (AI THEME) | 1 | 1 bullish | 2026-08-21 | |
| GOLD | 1 | 1 bearish | 2026-08-21 | |
| SMALL CAP STOCKS | 1 | 1 bullish | 2026-08-21 |
Tracked stances
bullish / bearish is a view they argued; owns / short is a position they said they hold.
2026-08-21
GOLD
bearish
Meb Faber · video
Gold has returned roughly 5x over the past 45 years while US equities returned over 100x — gold bugs celebrating fivefold gains are implicitly missing out on equities compounding at ~10% per year
“you missed out on over 100 investing in the market. Five doesn't sound like very much”
Billionaire David Booth Lost To the Market for 9 Years. He Never Changed His Mind.
2026-08-21
SMALL CAP STOCKS
bullish
Meb Faber · video
Small cap stocks carry more risk than large cap, and because risk and return are related, they have higher expected returns — a structural premium that persists through long periods of underperformance
“small cap stocks are riskier than large cap and risk and return are related. Which part of the argument are you no longer comfortable with?”
Billionaire David Booth Lost To the Market for 9 Years. He Never Changed His Mind.
2026-08-21
BROAD MARKET DIVERSIFICATION (AI THEME)
bullish
Meb Faber · video
AI will be transformative but knowing that doesn't identify which companies will win vs. lose — like the California gold rush where Levi Strauss (not the miners) profited — so the right exposure is owning all of them through a broad market portfolio rather…
“AI's going to be a big deal doesn't give you much insight as to what kind of companies are going to win”
Billionaire David Booth Lost To the Market for 9 Years. He Never Changed His Mind.
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