Monday Morning Quarterbacking

Last year we had Michael Lombardi speak at the EBI conference about how his experience working with the likes of Bill Walsh, Al Davis and Bill Belichick in the NFL translates into the business world.1 When I met Lombardi, who now works for The Athletic, he was at the whiteboard in the conference green room…

Animal Spirits: Stockpiling Cash

Today’s Animal Spirits with Michael and Ben is brought to you by EquityZen. EquityZen is giving Animal Spirits listeners half off their first investment minimum by going to equityzen.com/animal – usually a $20K minimum investment – we’re giving you $10K minimum. We discuss: The coming Airbnb IPO Are there any likable tech CEOs? WeWork’s latest PR…

Crazy But True

In doing some research for my stock market explainer piece from last week I came across a crazy but true stat about the stock market: The feedback on these types of stats is something of a Rorschach test for investors. I got the usual comments about Japan, buy & hold doesn’t work, maybe people should…

Explaining the Stock Market to Big Cat

Dan Katz (Big Cat of Pardon My Take fame) and Alex Rodriguez (J Lo’s boyfriend) had Mad Money’s Jim Cramer on the latest episode of their podcast, The Corp, this week. Big Cat expressed a number of concerns about the stock market to Cramer, claiming he doesn’t play the stock market because it’s like a…