Animal Spirits Podcast

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Synopsis

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.

Episodes

  • Why So Bearish? (EP.272)

    31/08/2022 Duration: 53min

    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 animalspiritspod@gmail.com with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Talk Your Book: Investing in China

    29/08/2022 Duration: 35min

    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 animalspiritspod@gmail.com with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation. 

  • Price Drives Narrative (EP.271)

    24/08/2022 Duration: 58min

    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 animalspiritspod@gmail.com with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • The Animal Spirits Indicator (EP.270)

    17/08/2022 Duration: 46min

    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 animalspiritspod@gmail.com with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Soft Landing (EP.269)

    10/08/2022 Duration: 57min

    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 animalspiritspod@gmail.com with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Talk Your Book: Choose Your Own Investments

    08/08/2022 Duration: 34min

    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 animalspiritspod@gmail.com with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation. 

  • Invest in What You Know (EP.268)

    03/08/2022 Duration: 52min

    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 animalspiritspod@gmail.com with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Listener Mailbag

    01/08/2022 Duration: 37min

    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 animalspiritspod@gmail.com with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation. 

  • Looking Back at the Crypto Meltdown

    30/07/2022 Duration: 24min

    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 animalspiritspod@gmail.com with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation. 

  • Redefining a Recession (EP.267)

    27/07/2022 Duration: 57min

    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 animalspiritspod@gmail.com with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Extreme Cost Cutting (EP.266)

    20/07/2022 Duration: 57min

    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 animalspiritspod@gmail.com with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Volatility Hits Main Street (EP.265)

    13/07/2022 Duration: 55min

    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 animalspiritspod@gmail.com with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Talk Your Book: The State of Commodities

    11/07/2022 Duration: 28min

    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 animalspiritspod@gmail.com with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation.   

  • Talk Your Book: The State of Venture Capital

    09/07/2022 Duration: 42min

    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 animalspiritspod@gmail.com with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation. 

  • The Pandemic Broke the Economy (EP.264)

    06/07/2022 Duration: 56min

    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 animalspiritspod@gmail.com with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Talk Your Book: The Bull Market in Stupidity

    04/07/2022 Duration: 32min

    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 animalspiritspod@gmail.com with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation. 

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

    29/06/2022 Duration: 56min

    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 animalspiritspod@gmail.com with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Talk Your Book: Expanding Access to Private Markets

    27/06/2022 Duration: 33min

    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 animalspiritspod@gmail.com with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation. 

  • Peak Pessimism (EP.262)

    22/06/2022 Duration: 48min

    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 animalspiritspod@gmail.com with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • The Fed is Being Punished (EP.261)

    15/06/2022 Duration: 53min

    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 animalspiritspod@gmail.com with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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