Animal Spirits: Will Higher Rates Kill the Stock Market

On today’s show we discuss the stock market has an excuse to sell off, valuations are falling across the board, the cause of the next correction, 5% bond yields, the worst bond market of all-time, incomes are rising, the wealth effect is real, AI personal assistants, the Consumer Inertia basket of stocks, 7% mortgage rates, the fall of the creative class, the 100 best TV shows this century and more.

A Brutal Bond Market

The Bloomberg Aggregate Bond Index was created by Lehman Brothers in the early-1980s to offer investors a benchmark for the investment grade taxable bond market.1 The index is made up of mostly Treasuries, corporates, mortgage-back securities and asset-back securities covering more than 10,000 fixed income securities in total. The Agg is now the benchmark most…

Animal Spirits: The Wobbly House of Cards

On today’s show we discuss the interconnected hyperscalers, AI’s risk to the economy, the chart of the year, Nvidia’s valuation, Meta’s personal assisstant, $186 trillion in household wealth, 10 year return projections, the case for owning bonds, why the Fed raised rates, Bitcoin’s comeback, fixing the housing crisis is harder than it sounds, the best movie of the 1980s and more.