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Talk Your Book: What’s Going on in the Bond Market?

On today’s show, we are joined again by Alex Morris, CIO of F/m Investments to discuss:
– 2024 rate cut possibilities
– The difficulty of forecasting, and why everyone got 2023 so wrong
– Utilizing spreads as a forecasting tool
– Why solving for corporate duration can be a useful risk management tool, and much more!

Animal Spirits: New All-Time Highs

On today’s show, we discuss:
– The average length of bull and bear markets
– What’s up with Small Cap stocks
– $8.8T in cash
– No show China
– The vibesession is over
– The softening labor market
– Airline credit cards
– 0% rate loans
– The Bitcoin ETF, and much more!

Talk Your Book: Live at FARMCON

On today’s show, we are live at FARMCON to discuss:
– The macro economy and inflation in 2023 and 2024
– Commodity trading with legendary trader Andy Daniels
– How behavioral finance affects investment decisions, and much more!

Animal Spirits: The Cash-Returning Machine

On today’s show, we discuss:
– Setting return expectations moving forward
– US Large Cap stocks generating a ton of cash
– A bear market in used cars
– An update on Bitcoin ETFs
– Great Quarter Guys
– Driving in a blizzard, and much more!

Talk Your Book: Building Portfolios with AI

On today’s show, we are joined again by Chris Shuba, Founder and CEO of Helios Quantitative Research to discuss:
– The experience of a diversified investor in 2023
– Utilizing AI to build portfolios for advisors
– Helios’ latest trading service offering, and much more!

Animal Spirits: The Fee War Comes to Crypto

On today’s show, we discuss:
– The biggest winners and losers of 2023 in the markets
– Short-term vs. long term returns for stocks
– Why the U.S. dominates financial markets
– The problem with being right once in a row
– Bitcoin ETF fees
– Americans are richer than you think, and much more!

Animal Spirits: 2024 Predictions

On today’s show, we discuss:
– 2023 market performance
– A bunch of 2024 predictions
– Our favorite historical stock market return series
– The high quality of restaurants
– Paying off your mortgage early
– The downsides of behavioral finance
– Bens most cynical take of the year, and much more!

Animal Spirits: What Will Perform Best in 2024?

On today’s show, we discuss:
– Christmas arguments
– Green shoots in prices
– 1940s vs. 1970s inflation
– Why we’re not worried about index funds
– How to save and invest in middle age
– Why Bitcoin is the most extreme asset
– Celebrating no recession in 2023
– Why the U.S. economy is more resilient
– Some Christmas movie recommendations, and much more!

Talk Your Book: International Growth Investing

On today’s show, we are joined by Todd Morris, International Growth Portfolio Manager and Analyst for Polen Capital to discuss:
– Reasons for the valuation discrepancies between international stocks and US stocks
– How the dollar affects international investments
– Understanding cultural differences when investing outside the US
– Position sizing within a concentrated portfolio, and much more!

Animal Spirits: The Most Crowded Trade on Wall Street

On today’s show, we discuss:
– Mission accomplished from the Fed
– What comes after a soft landing
– New highs in the stock market
– Small caps breaking out
– The best thing we’ve built in America
– More people own stocks than ever
– The economic chart of the year
– The best movie of the 2020s (so far), and much more!