2025-12-29
9 分钟Hey, everyone.
Darian Woods here.
Happy holidays.
For the next week, we're running some of our favorite shows from this year.
Today's episode is about gambling addiction and the stock market.
NPR.
Chris Garver got interested in the stock market around 2010.
I had some savings and I thought, There's no point in them being in,
you know, saving his accounts because the interest was so bad.
Chris started with what he describes as a sensible investment strategy.
He bought shares in a range of large companies listed on the main British stock exchange.
But the deeper I got into it,
you start going into forums and people start recommending stocks and you see some of the returns that were happening.
And then that kind of opened up another world.
It was a world of buying smaller,
more volatile companies or using special trading contracts in ways that magnify your gains or losses.
Chris remembers investing in one company prospecting for oil.
News hit of a new discovery and in two days I'd made over 80,000 pounds and I thought,
right, you know, I can make some serious money here.
80,000 pounds is about 100,000 US dollars.