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Animal Spirits Podcast

Animal Spirits is a show about markets, life, and investing. Join Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson as they talk about what they're reading, writing, listening to and watching. Look for new episodes every Wednesday morning. See our disclosures here - https://ritholtzwealth.com/podcast-youtube-disclosures/

Episodes

Live From Future Proof (EP.274)

On today's show, we discuss the worst first 8 months ever, the illiquidity premium, Q2 earnings, The Robinhood Investor Index, and much more! Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Like us on Facebook And feel free to shoot us an email at [email protected] with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoice...

Sep 14, 202238 minEp. 274

Talk Your Book: Single Stock ETFs

On today's show, we had David Mazza, Head of Product at Direxion to talk about the use cases and risks of investing in single stock, leveraged, and inverse ETFs Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Like us on Facebook And feel free to shoot us an email at [email protected] with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit me...

Sep 12, 202230 min

Talk Your Book: Fixing Fixed Income

On today's Talk Your Book, we spoke to Russell Feldman from IMTC on innovating the fixed income investment process, differences between trading stocks vs. bonds, risk management within fixed income, and much more. Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Like us on Facebook And feel free to shoot us an email at [email protected] with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of con...

Sep 09, 202225 min

The Super Bubble (EP.273)

On today's show we discuss Jeremy Grantham's super bubble call, how "don't fight the Fed" has evolved, why all opinions are extreme today, how the bottom 50% are making the biggest financial progress, how the Fed screwed up the housing market and much more. Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Like us on Facebook And feel free to shoot us an email at [email protected] with any feedback, questions, recomm...

Sep 07, 202248 minEp. 273

Talk Your Book: Interest Rates and Volatility

On today's show, we spoke with Jason Barsema about the ins and outs of structured notes, how downside protection works, when it makes sense to use structured notes, and much more. Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Like us on Facebook And feel free to shoot us an email at [email protected] with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation. Learn more about your a...

Sep 05, 202233 min

Why So Bearish? (EP.272)

On today's who we discuss the pros and cons of student loan forgiveness, why the Fed has the ability to talk tough about inflation (for now), the difference between being bearish and being realistic, record high corporate profits, why we're never going to get enough homes built and much more. Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Like us on Facebook And feel free to shoot us an email at [email protected] ...

Aug 31, 202253 minEp. 272

Talk Your Book: Investing in China

On today's show, we spoke with Brendan Ahern to give us an update on China, Chinese stock listing issues, investing in China's largest companies, and much more. Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Like us on Facebook And feel free to shoot us an email at [email protected] with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit me...

Aug 29, 202236 min

Price Drives Narrative (EP.271)

On this week's show we discuss the ever-changing narratives in the stock market and economy, iron-clad rules of investing, why markets are so confusing right now, a wider bid-ask spread in the housing market, crypto's LTCM moment and much more. Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Like us on Facebook And feel free to shoot us an email at [email protected] with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or...

Aug 24, 202258 minEp. 271

The Animal Spirits Indicator (EP.270)

On this week’s show, we discuss Ben’s trip to Long Island, some good news on inflation, Disney’s sky-high inflation, confusing signals in the economy, and much more. Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Like us on Facebook And feel free to shoot us an email at [email protected] with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...

Aug 17, 202247 minEp. 270

Soft Landing (EP.269)

On this weeks show we discuss the stock market's ability to predict a recession, the hot labor market, wages vs. inflation, the prospect for a soft landing in the economy, Robinhood vs. Coinbase, volatility in the mortgage market, a bunch of movie recs and much more. Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Like us on Facebook And feel free to shoot us an email at [email protected] with any feedback, questio...

Aug 10, 202257 minEp. 269

Talk Your Book: Choose Your Own Investments

On today's Talk Your Book we spoke with Composer founder Ben Rollert about creating your own automated investment strategies. Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Like us on Facebook And feel free to shoot us an email at [email protected] with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 08, 202235 min

Invest in What You Know (EP.268)

On today's show we discuss the recession debate, why the economy is so confusing right now, calling a stock market bottom (or not), the tech stock comeback, earnings season and much more. Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Like us on Facebook And feel free to shoot us an email at [email protected] with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation. Learn more abou...

Aug 03, 202253 minEp. 268

Listener Mailbag

On today's show we answer questions straight from the listeners with some help from Rocket Dollar's Henry Yoshida. Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Like us on Facebook And feel free to shoot us an email at [email protected] with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 01, 202237 min

Looking Back at the Crypto Meltdown

On today's show, we get an update on crypto from Meow CEO Brandon Arvanaghi and take a look at what happened with the recent crypto meltdowns. Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Like us on Facebook And feel free to shoot us an email at [email protected] with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoic...

Jul 30, 202225 min

Redefining a Recession (EP.267)

On today's show we discuss why the middle class is getting squeezed, why it's so hard to define what a recession is, boring stocks are outperforming, the size of the housing market, why negotiating will be making a comeback, spending time alone and much more. Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Like us on Facebook And feel free to shoot us an email at [email protected] with any feedback, questions, reco...

Jul 27, 202258 minEp. 267

Extreme Cost Cutting (EP.266)

On today's show we discuss peaking inflation, confused banks, whys stocks are the best inflation hedge, and much more. Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Like us on Facebook And feel free to shoot us an email at [email protected] with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 20, 202257 minEp. 266

Volatility Hits Main Street (EP.265)

On today's show we discuss stocks for the long run, Elon's Twitter debacle, the labor market vs. inflation, the number of cycles we've experienced since the pandemic, peak inflation and much more. Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Like us on Facebook And feel free to shoot us an email at [email protected] with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation. Learn ...

Jul 13, 202255 minEp. 265

Talk Your Book: The State of Commodities

On today's Talk Your Book, we spoke with Sal Gilbertie from Teucrium about the state of agricultural commodities. Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Like us on Facebook And feel free to shoot us an email at [email protected] with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 11, 202229 min

Talk Your Book: The State of Venture Capital

On today's show, we discuss similarities between the late 90s and today, how tough it is to get VC exposure, current market dynamics within the private markets, and much more. Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Like us on Facebook And feel free to shoot us an email at [email protected] with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation. Learn more about your ad ch...

Jul 09, 202242 min

The Pandemic Broke the Economy (EP.264)

On today's show we talk about why the first 6 months of the year were one of the worst ever for financial markets, why it's so difficult to gauge the economy right now, what's priced into the stock market, the worst earnings call ever, the psychology behind inflation and much more. Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Like us on Facebook And feel free to shoot us an email at [email protected] with any fe...

Jul 06, 202256 minEp. 264

Talk Your Book: The Bull Market in Stupidity

On today's Talk Your Book, we spoke with Michael Grant from Calamos Investments about the Fed, the economy and managing a long/short fund in this environment Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Like us on Facebook And feel free to shoot us an email at [email protected] with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megap...

Jul 04, 202233 min

Are We Sure a Recession is Coming? (EP.263)

On today's show we discuss stock market return expectations, the sell-off in commodities, the back and forth on recession predictions, fighting the last war on the economy, why crypto crashed so bad, negotiating your cable bill down and much more. Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Like us on Facebook And feel free to shoot us an email at [email protected] with any feedback, questions, recommendations,...

Jun 29, 202257 minEp. 263

Talk Your Book: Expanding Access to Private Markets

On today's Talk Your Book, we spoke with Bob Long of Conversus about giving financial advisors access to investments in private markets. Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Like us on Facebook And feel free to shoot us an email at [email protected] with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...

Jun 27, 202234 min

Peak Pessimism (EP.262)

On today's show we discuss how wild and crazy the past 3 years have been in the markets, why the Fed is in such a precarious position, the number of stocks getting hammered, the Warren Buffett of crypto, the most re-watchable movie of all-time and much more. Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Like us on Facebook And feel free to shoot us an email at [email protected] with any feedback, questions, recom...

Jun 22, 202249 minEp. 262

The Fed is Being Punished (EP.261)

On this week's show we discuss the current market sentiment, the official bear market in U.S. stocks, why the Fed is making a mistake, the insane move higher in interest rates, the crypto winter and more. Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Like us on Facebook And feel free to shoot us an email at [email protected] with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation...

Jun 15, 202253 minEp. 261

Talk Your Book: High Quality Growth Stocks

On today's show we spoke with Allen Bond from Jensen Investment Management about finding high quality growth stocks and investing during a bear market. Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Like us on Facebook And feel free to shoot us an email at [email protected] with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.f...

Jun 13, 202234 min

Good News is Bad News (EP.260)

On today's show we discuss why everyone thinks we're already in a recession, living paycheck to paycheck on $250k a year, why crypto makes more sense in a bull market, why it feels like the stock market should be down way more, Top Gun: Maverick and much more. Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Like us on Facebook And feel free to shoot us an email at [email protected] with any feedback, questions, rec...

Jun 08, 20221 hr 1 minEp. 260

Talk Your Book: Hedging the Different Types of Inflation

On today's Talk Your Book, we spoke with Don Casturo from Quantix Commodities and Kristof Gleich from Harbor Capital to discuss how to hedge inflation with commodities. Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Like us on Facebook And feel free to shoot us an email at [email protected] with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. ...

Jun 06, 202232 min

The Round Trip (EP.259)

On today's show we discuss what the narrative would be if we went back to new highs, why high oil prices are so worrisome, why the housing market is more important than the stock market, some good news about the U.S. economy, the new Top Gun and much more. Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Like us on Facebook And feel free to shoot us an email at [email protected] with any feedback, questions, recomme...

Jun 01, 202245 minEp. 259

The most obvious recession ever (EP.258)

On today's show we discuss, the big housing miss, inventory build-ups, private market slowdown, and much more. Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Like us on Facebook And feel free to shoot us an email at [email protected] with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 25, 202254 minEp. 258
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