Ben Carlson

Animal Spirits: Is Financial Education Working?

On today’s show we discuss how retail became the smart money, why long-term investing caught on, where the money is coming from to buy the dips, chances of re-testing the lows, the Moody’s downgrade, millionaires next door, takeout food culture, the broken housing market and more.

60/40 Portfolio Corrections, Bear Markets and Recoveries

A reader asks: I saved one of your articles that had some figures from all the bear markets since 1950 thru 2020 (was couple years ago). It had a table with the % drop at the trough, the number of days to the bottom, the date and number of days back up to breakeven, as…