
Animal Spirits is a weekly podcast where I get together with my friend and colleague Ben Carlson to discuss what we’ve been reading, researching, writing, watching, listening to, and thinking about. We talk about all things financial markets, personal finance, our favorite books, movies, and TV shows, dad life, the asset management business and more. Our goal is the make finance more accessible, speak in plain English, and share our own personal experiences in the markets.
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Episode List
Ep. 255- The Psychology of Investing in Bitcoin (TYB)
Ep. 254- The Active Management Resurgence
Ep. 253- Investing in the Gig Economy (TYB)
Ep. 252- An Affordability Crisis
Ep. 251- The Case for Emerging Markets (TYB)
Ep. 249- Investing in Freedom (TYB)
Ep. 248- The Recession is Over
Ep. 247- The Most Ambitious ETFs (TYB)
Ep. 246- Investing in Moonshots (TYB)
Ep. 245- The Beanie Baby Bubble
Ep. 242- The Madness of crowds (TYB)
Ep. 240- Commission-Free Insurance (TYB)
Ep. 238- Crypto as an Emerging Store of Value (TYB)
Ep. 237- It’s Very Different This Time
Ep. 236- Investing in Fixed Income (TYB)
Ep. 234- Investing in Real Estate With Fundrise (TYB)
Ep. 233- Tesla is the Next Tesla
Ep. 232- Should I Use a Roth or a Traditional IRA
Ep. 228- Everyone Knows Everything
Ep. 227- Momentum Investing With Joe Terranova (TYB)
Ep. 226- Never Stop Buying Lottery Tickets
Ep. 225- How to Start Your Financial Life
Ep. 221- The Structured Marketplace (TYB)
Ep. 220- Raising the Minimum Wage
Ep. 219- Investing in Bitcoin (TYB)
Ep. 218- Is Bitcoin the New Gold?
Ep. 217- Direct Indexing (TYB)
Ep. 215- But What Happens Tomorrow? (TYB)
Ep. 213- Farmland for the Modern Investor (TYB)
Ep. 210- The Worst Chart in Finance
Ep. 209- Is the Fed Too Entrenched? (TYB)
Ep. 207- What’s In an Index? (TYB)
Ep. 206- Bearish the Whole Way Up
Ep. 205- Protecting the Tails (TYB)
Ep. 204- Living Through History
Ep. 203- A Random Talk With Burton Malkiel
Ep. 201- Investing in Gold (TYB)
Ep. 199- Everything You Need to Know About Retirement
Ep. 196- The Economics of Parenting
Ep. 195- Asset Price Hyperinflation
Ep. 194- Sectors and the Business Cycle (Talk Your Book)
Ep. 192- How to Spend Your Money
Ep. 191- The Four Most Dangerous Words
Ep. 190- Understanding Opportunity Zones (Talk Your Book)
Ep. 188- The Economics of Home Ownership
Ep. 186- Fixed Income Investing in a Low Rate World
Ep. 185- The Golden Age of Fraud
Ep. 184- Edly ISA’s- Invest in Student Debt (Talk Your Book)
Ep. 181- The Future of Education
Ep. 180- Existential Hurricane
Ep. 178- Advisor Solutions with Helios (Talk Your Book)
Ep. 177-The Opposite of a Falling Knife
Ep. 176- Invest in Private Real Estate With Fundrise (Talk Your Book)
Ep. 175- Stock Market Euphoria
Ep. 174- How to Make Better Financial Decisions (Talk Your Book)
Ep. 173- The Unluckiest Generation
Ep. 172- Valuations Don’t Matter
Ep. 171- Investing in Corporate Real Estate (Talk Your Book)
Ep. 170- Is the Stock Market Wrong?
Ep. 169- Too Young, Too Dumb and Too Inexperienced
Ep. 167- Whatever It Takes Squared
Ep. 166- A NoobWhale Picker’s Market
Ep. 165- Capitalism As We Know It
Ep. 160- Talk Your Book: Investing in Art With Masterworks
Ep. 155- The Historic Surge in Unemployment
Ep. 154- The first thing to go during a crisis
Ep. 153- Bailing Out Main Street
Ep. 152- Is this worse than 2008?
Ep. 151- Trading Direxion Leveraged ETFs
Ep. 150- Preparing For a Recession
Ep. 148- A Random Watch Down Wall Street
Ep. 147- The Emergency Rate Cut
Ep. 146- Talk Your Book: Investing in Commodities
Ep. 145- Michael’s Worst Investment Ever
Ep. 144- Talk Your Book: Small and Mid Cap Growth Investing
Ep. 143- What Makes People Happier than Money?
Ep. 142- A Random Watch Down Wall Street: Margin Call
Ep. 140- Talk Your Book: How To Create Income
Ep. 139- Do Economies Need to Go Bust?
Ep. 136- The 10 Best Jobs in America
Ep. 135- Millennials on Communism
Ep. 133- The Best Decade in Human History
Ep. 132- A Random Watch, Trading Places
Ep. 131- Shopping Under the Influence
Ep. 130- Talk Your Book: The Case for Tactical Equity
Ep. 129- The Murder of the American Dream
Ep. 128- A Random Watch Down Wall Street, Boiler Room
Ep. 126- Talk Your Book: Elimination Alpha, How to XOut Your Portfolio Losers
Ep. 125- The Nastiest, Hardest Problem in Finance
Ep. 124- Talk Your Book: Value & Momentum With Jack & Wes
Ep. 122- Talk Your Book- Defined Outcome Strategies with Jason Barsema of Halo Investing
Ep. 121- I’ve Never Used an Emoji
Ep. 120- Talk Your Book: Coaching the Yankees
Ep. 119- Talk Your Book: Greg Zuckerman on Jim Simons & Renaissance Technologies
Ep. 118- The World’s Worst Investor
Ep. 116- Talk Your Book: Crossing Wall Street with Eddy Elfenbein
Ep. 113- Re-Kindled: Malcolm Gladwell
Ep. 111-Talk Your Book: Investing in Private Companies with EquityZen
Ep. 109- Economically Unattractive
Ep. 106- Re-Kindled: Amusing Ourselves to Death
Ep. 104- Talk Your Book: Invest Like a Hedge Fund With Titan
Ep. 101- Superforecasting, Re-Kindled
Ep. 97- Talk Your Book, Agricultural Commodities
Ep. 95- Talk Your Book, The Acquirer’s Fund
Ep. 93- Talk Your Book: Global Factor Investing
Ep. 92- The Great Depression of 2073
Ep. 91- The 4 Most Dangerous Words in Podcasting
Ep. 90- Talk Your Book- Trading with MarketSmith
Ep. 88- Re-kindled: Where Are the Customers’ Yachts?
Ep. 86- Talk Your Book With Unison
Ep. 84- Talk Your Book with Jeremy Schwartz of WisdomTree
Ep. 81 – Re-Kindled: The Big Short
Ep. 77- Netflix for Financial Planning
Ep. 75- Talk Your Book: Creating a Buffer
Ep. 73- Talk Your Book: The Low Vol Anomaly
Ep. 72- Where Were You at the Bottom?
Ep. 70- The Rich Man’s Disease
Talk Your Book: Breaking the Market Cap
Ep. 60- Everyone Should Earning 3 Percent
Talk Your Book: International Investing
Ep. 58- The Sellers Are in Control
Talk Your Book: Investing in Commodities
Ep. 56- How to Ask the Right Questions
Ep. 55- How to Create the Perfect Fund
Ep. 51- The Healthy Correction
Ep. 50- A Committee of Geniuses
Ep. 47- Borrowing From the Future
Ep. 46- How the Financial Crisis Affected Millenials
Ep. 45- Do We Need a Recession?
Ep. 44- When Hitler Took Cocaine
Ep. 43 – Why Andy Dufresne Would be a Good Portfolio Manager
Ep. 40- What Worked On Wall Street
Ep. 39- The Worst 401(k) Advice
Ep. 34- The Mother of All Credit Bubbles
Ep. 33- The Oracle of Brooklyn
Ep. 30- What it Takes to be Wealthy
Ep. 26- The Collaborative Podcast
Ep. 25- Some Things We Learned
Ep. 19 – Brothers From a Different Mother
Ep.13 – Nobody Wants to Listen to Your Podcast
Ep.11 – Hedge Fund Myths & Casual Investing Advice
Ep.7 – A Random Walk Down Nowhere
Ep.6 – Bitcoin, Bubbles & Bananas
Ep.5 – Wave Pools & Market Inefficiencies
Ep.4 – Evidence-Based Investing Conference Post-Mortem
Ep.3 – The More You Pay, The Less You Get
Ep.2 – Investing is Game of Relative, Not Absolute Skill
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