Animal Spirits: A 25 Year Bull Market

On todays’ show we discuss faster recoveries in the stock market, the potential for an even longer bull market, pros and cons of deregulation, zooming out on the dollar, why taxes never rise, a weak jobs market for college grads, life in 1776, making $250k a year and still not feeling rich, the worst housing market in America, $1,000 car payments and more.

Talk Your Book: Autocallable Income

In this episode of Talk Your Book, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson sit down with the team behind CAIE – the Calamos Autocallable Income ETF, a first-of-its-kind fund bringing institutional-style structured notes to the ETF world. They explore what makes CAIE structurally unique compared to traditional autocallable notes, including how its laddered structure offer investors a differentiated income strategy.

Animal Spirits: The Top 10 Risks to the Stock Market

On today’s show we discuss recession hypotheticals, all-time highs in the stock market, the death of the permabear, international outperformance, a crashing dollar, the automatic investing revolution, yield magicians, fast food price inflation, AI vs. financial advisors, the potential for a housing market correction and more.

Talk Your Book: What Even Is Infrastructure?

On today’s show, we are joined by Scott Litman, Portfolio Manager at GCM Grosvenor to discuss types of infrastructure investments, revenue drivers within infrastructure, the risk/return profile for infrastructure investments, thoughts around liquidity, and much more!