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Animal Spirits: A Healthy Pullback

On today’s show, we discuss:
– Why the stock market needed a correction
– Why the 1990s is an outlier (in more ways than one)
– Economic growth is a policy choice
– Gen Z is doing better than you think
– Living in the U.S. vs. Europe
– The number of households with a paid off mortgage
– The renovation boom, and much more!

Talk Your Book: The Bull Case for India

On today’s show, we are joined by Anupam Ghose, Managing Partner at System Two Advisors to discuss:
– Why the China story is different than the India of today
– India’s macro tailwinds
– How GDP growth translates to higher stock prices
– Risks involved when investing in India, and much more!

Animal Spirits: The Yeah But Bull Market

On today’s show, we discuss:
– Why the stock market isn’t down more
– Why the price of oil isn’t up more
– Improvements in investor behavior
– The auto insurance crisis
– Why home insurance is rising
– Why rich people don’t feel rich
– Millennials and Boomers powering the economy
– Higher for longer mortgage rates
– Customer service nightmares, and much more!

Talk Your Book: Diversifying Away From the Magnificent 7

On today’s show, we spoke with Ed Egilinsky, Managing Director, Head of Alternatives, and Head of Sales and Distribution at Direxion to discuss:
– Flows into bullish and bearish levered funds
– Diversifying away from large-cap tech
– Utilizing the Nasdaq equal-weight ETF
– The appropriate time period to hold leveraged products, and much more!

Animal Spirits: Enjoy the Bull Market While it Lasts

On today’s show, we discuss:
– How we prioritize our spending
– 1987 vs. the Covid crash
– Crazy index fund flows
– Stock market concentration
– Panic about government debt
– The tech recession in California
– Will Millennials move to Florida in retirement
– The most streamed shows, and much more!

Talk Your Book: Emerging Market Fundamentals

On today’s show, we are joined by Rahul Sharma, Portfolio Manager and Executive Director of Schafer Cullen Capital Management to discuss:
– China’s affect on Emerging Markets
– Avoiding value-traps in EM
– Strong macro trends in India
– Passive vs. active management in Emerging Markets, and much more!

Animal Spirits: The Never-Ending Travel Boom

On today’s show, we discuss:
– Inflation helping corporate profits
– What’s going on with chocolate
– Airport traffic hitting all-time highs
– The new Robinhood credit card
– The downfall of Jack Daniels, and much more!

Talk Your Book: Preserving Your Capital

On today’s show, we are joined again by Jason Barsema, Co-Founder and President of Halo Investing to discuss:
– Investing in notes structured around single stocks
– The difference between hard and soft protection
– What the Catapult Note is
– Halos annuity and annuity servicing capabilities for advisors, and much more!

Animal Spirits: The Roaring Twenties

On today’s show, we discuss:
– Why the elements are in place for a boom-time decade
– Why household allocations to stocks were so low in the past
– How to lie with statistics
– Who keeps buying Treasury bonds
– Picking the AI winners in the stock market
– Some good news for homebuyers, and much more!

Talk Your Book: Finding a Bottom in China

On today’s show, we are joined again by Jonathan Shelon, Chief Operating Officer of KraneShares to discuss:
– An economic update on China
– China’s buyer of last resort
– What happened in Chinese real estate, and much more!