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Animal Spirits: CEO Departures
Michael & Ben discuss stock performance after a CEO departs, banning share buybacks, breaking up Facebook and much more.
Dear Bernie Sanders, Banning Buybacks Won’t Help
Banning stock buybacks sounds good in theory to some people. It wouldn’t make sense in practice.
Talk Your Book: Crossing Wall Street with Eddy Elfenbein
Michael and Ben talk with Crossing Wall Street’s Eddy Elfenbein.
Everything You Need to Know About Recessions
How you should think about recessions in the context of your portfolio.
Do We Need to Farm an Asteroid For Stocks to Keep Rising?
On this week’s podcast we discussed what would have to happen for stocks to continue doing well over the next 5 years or so: Short of an asteroid discovery that will change humanity and the stock market forever1 it would seem the most logical path from here would be lower than average returns….
How Much Time Should You Spend on Your Finances?
People spend almost 100x more time watching TV than planning for their finances.
Animal Spirits: The Least Happy Age
Michael and Ben discuss the death of the 60/40 (again), QE forever, Paul Rudd and much more.
Why the IPO Market is Different This Time
Why this cycle’s IPO class is nothing like the dot-com bubble.
9 Questions I’m Pondering at the Moment
Some random questions I’ve been thinking about lately.
