On this TCAF Tuesday, Join Josh Brown and Michael Batnick for another episode of What Are Your Thoughts and see what they have to say about the biggest topics in investing and finance! On this episode they discuss: CPI, an update on earnings, Nvidia, Amazon stock, mystery charts, and more! (Keep listening at the end for a special bonus outtake.)
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May 2023
Something Has to Break (EP.310)
On today's show, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson discuss Ben's guiding philosophy on life and markets, why people buy and sell stocks at the wrong times, NVIDIA's crazy run, why the economy remains so resilient, historic income gains at the bottom, greedflation, The Succession fi ... Show More
57m 36s
May 2024
Talk Your Book: Growth Stage Debt Investing
On today's show, Ben Carlson and Michael Batnick 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-generati ... Show More
33m 4s
Feb 2024
Talk Your Book: Putting a Floor on the Nasdaq 100
On today's show, Ben Carlson and Michael Batnick are joined by Bruce Bond, Co-Founder and CEO of Innovator Capital Management to discuss: behavioral finance, and the popularity of defined outcome products during bull markets, how equity floor ETFs work, Innovator's latest defined ... Show More
38m 1s
Feb 2024
Talk Your Book: Investing for Income
On today's show, Ben Carlson and Michael Batnick are joined by Josh Greco, Senior VP and Senior Institutional Portfolio Manager for Franklin Income Investors to discuss: asset allocation decisions within multi-asset funds, how rate changes affect portfolio yield, investors overal ... Show More
39m 43s
Apr 2024
Talk Your Book: Hedging Your Portfolio with Options
On today's show, Ben Carlson and Michael Batnick 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 drivin ... Show More
32m 11s
Jun 2023
Talk Your Book: The Electrification of America
On today's show, Michael and Ben are joined by Timothy Kramer, Founder and CEO of CNIC Funds to discuss investing in electricity, how CNIC Funds work, volatility in the energy market, what a suitable commodity exposure looks like, and much more!
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26m 20s
Jun 2023
Talk Your Book: Advisor Best Practices
On today's show, Michael and Ben are joined by Chris Shuba, founder and CEO of Helios to discuss: ETFs vs. direct indexing, why differentiation matters for advisors, utilizing content to drive business, where the wealth management business goes from here, and much more!
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39m 4s
Aug 2024
What is Wealth? (EP.375)
On episode 375 of Animal Spirits, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson discuss: Jerome Powell's speech at Jackson Hole, Nvidia millionaires, financial voices you can safely ignore, housing affordability, what it takes to be considered wealthy, every generation thinks they have it bad, ... Show More
1h 14m
Mar 2024
Talk Your Book: Private Investing for Fiduciaries
On today's show, Ben Carlson and Michael Batnick are joined by Jacob Miller, Co-Founder of Opto Investments to discuss: how difficult it is for RIAs to get private market exposure, the growth of private credit, and why that may be an issue, Opto's screening process for private in ... Show More
44m 19s
Jun 2025
A Bubble is Coming (EP. 416)
On episode 416 of Animal Spirits, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson discuss the stock market bet of the century, the most interesting market environment ever, positive trends in retirement saving, Europe is outperforming, downturns might be different now, the Fe ... Show More
1h 13m
On episode 255 of The Compound and Friends, Downtown Josh Brown and Michael Batnick are joined by Todd Sohn, Chief ETF Strategist at Baird Strategas, to discuss the record-breaking ET ... Show More
Join Downtown Josh Brown and Michael Batnick for another episode of What Are Your Thoughts as they discuss six major stocks that may be setting up for a bounce: Meta, U ... Show More
