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Animal Spirits: Business Optimism Crashes

On today’s show, we discuss regional bank failures, confidence in the Fed, international diversification, the V-shaped recovery in the labor market, vibes vs. data in the economy, the best company in the world, middle age, and much more!

Animal Spirits: Bear Market Lessons

On today’s show, we discuss never shorting junk food, a purgatory market, why spending isn’t slowing down, our first mortgage rates, the First Republic takeover, and much more!

Animal Spirits: Millennials Will Buy All the Stocks

On today’s show, we discuss what happens to stocks after a bad year, why foreign stocks are outperforming, why any recession should be mild, how millennials will impact stock market valuations, generational homeownership rates, and much more.

Talk Your Book: Diversify Your Diversifiers

On today’s show, we are joined by Paul Kim, CEO and Co-Founder of Simplify ETFs to discuss how rising yields affect alternative strategies, Simplify’s interest rate hedge strategy, utilizing VIX strategies, and much more!

Animal Spirits: The Crockpot Recession

On today’s show we discuss why the bond market is so confused, why consumers are so confused, why Vanguard continues to dominate, why inflation is finally heading lower, why millennials aren’t as broke as you think, why first-time homebuyers are out of luck and much more.

Talk Your Book: Hidden Pricing Power

On today’s show, we are joined by Haruki Toyama, Portfolio Manager and Head of Mid-Cap and Large-Cap Equity at Madison Investments to discuss finding wide moats, discovering hidden pricing power, using movie anecdotes to invest, and much more!

Talk Your Book: Defining the Downside

On today’s show, we are joined again by Bruce Bond to discuss Innovators latest fixed-income focused barrier ETFs, how rate volatility affects ETF yield, risk-reward in fixed-income, and much more!

Animal Spirits: The 3 Levels of Wealth

On today’s show we discuss why investors are always looking to catch a falling knife, a reversal in the markets since last year, why European stocks are outperforming, how money market funds became the biggest market story of the year, de-dollarization, some vacation thoughts from spring break and much more.