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Talk Your Book: Growth Stage Debt Investing

On today’s show, we are joined by Kyle Brown, CEO, President, and CIO of Trinity Capital to discuss:
– How the Trinity Capital structure works
– How Venture Debt investing works
– Understanding execution risk vs technology risk
– Trinity’s 5 income generating businesses, risks involved, and much more!

Animal Spirits: Wages Are Beating Inflation

On today’s show, we talk about:
– Losing a family pet
– The S&P 500 is not the economy
– Everything is up this year
– The stock market is NOT a casino
– Wages are cumulative just like inflation
– Consumers keep consuming
– ETH ETF’s
– The Ben Carlson streaming bundle, and more.

Talk Your Book: Higher For Longer

On today’s show, we are joined by Alex Morris, President and Chief Investment Officer of F/m Investments to discuss
– What duration, maturity, and convexity mean to a bond
– The psychology of bond bear markets
– Why TIPS did not perform as expected in 2022
– Differences between yield to maturity and the 30-day SEC yield, and much more!

Talk Your Book: Defining Risk with Structured Protection ETFs

On today’s show, we spoke with Matt Kaufman, SVP and Head of ETFs at Calamos Investments to discuss:
– Why embedding options within ETF wrappers has gotten so popular
– How Calamos structures protection ETFs
– Why timing can matter with structured protection ETFs
– Demographic tailwinds for structured protection products, and much more!

Animal Spirits: Fighting Inflation

On today’s show, we discuss:
– The suffocating bull market
– The other side of government debt
– Jerry Seinfeld on when money changed everything
– Consumers are finally fighting back against inflation
– Wall Street translations
– Who is buying Bitcoin ETFs
– The bear case against housing, and much more!

Talk Your Book: Bitcoin Flows

On today’s show, we are joined by Christopher Jensen, Director of Digital Assets Research for Franklin’s Digital Asset Investment Strategies Group to discuss:
– The resiliency of Bitcoin
– The global casino vs global computer use-case theories
– Understanding the Bitcoin halving, and much more!

Animal Spirits: Negative Arbitrage

On today’s show, we discuss:
– Michael vs. StubHub
– Inflation at Disney is undefeated
– 30 years of stock market returns
– The bond market correction rolls on
– ARKK is finally seeing an exodus
– Corporations are taking advantage of consumers
– The biggest AI winners
– The new normal of housing prices, and much more!

Talk Your Book: Hedging Your Portfolio with Options

On today’s show, we are joined by Eric Metz, President, and Chief Investment Officer of SpiderRock Advisors to discuss:
– The pending acquisition by BlackRock
– Covered call performance in a bull market
– Tax benefits when utilizing options
– What’s driving option-overlay growth in todays market, and much more!

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!