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Animal Spirits Podcast

Jan 27, 2021

On today's show we talk about the wild moves in Gamestop, why this is now a young person's market, why the SEC is probably going to come calling for some YOLO investors, why this is and is not like 1999, how hedge funds got beat by retail traders and much more.

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Ben Carlson’s A...


Jan 22, 2021

On today's show, Michael and Ben talk with Gibson Smith of Smith Capital Investors about how the structure of the fixed income market has evolved over time, what happened to bond funds and ETFs in March? The potential problems with plain-vanilla bond indexes, and much more
 
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Jan 20, 2021

On today's show we discuss why index funds will never cause a bubble, how day traders are evolving, the best-performing stocks of 2020, penny stock madness and why 2021 could see the economy shoot the lights out.
 
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Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense
Michael Batnick’s The...


Jan 13, 2021

On this week's show we discuss the outsized role tech companies play in our democracy, why aggression is highly contagious, why the stock market is creating bubbles, the battle between fiscal and monetary policy, bitcoin whales and much more.
 
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Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of...


Jan 11, 2021

On today's show, we talk with Bill Sweet about the different options investors should consider when thinking about what type of vehicle they should use for their retirement money. 
 
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Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense
Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor
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