On episode 146 of The Compound and Friends, Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown are joined by Alicia Levine, Head of Investment Strategy & Equities at BNY Wealth, to discuss: the FOMC meeting, inflation, rising valuations, the biggest risk to the market, GameStop, and much more!
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Jun 2024
Bankless & Animal Spirits
On this special episode of Animal Spirits, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson are joined by Ryan Sean Adams and David Hoffman, of the Bankless podcast, to discuss: crypto cycles, Bitcoin vs Ethereum, crypto entering politics, and much more!
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1 h
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 28s
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
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
32m 49s
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
31m 56s
Jun 2024
Talk Your Book: Growth Stock Concentration
On today's show, Ben Carlson and Michael Batnick are live from Charleston, joined by Kathleen McCarragher, a Portfolio Manager for Jennison Associates and Harbor Capital to discuss market concentration within the S&P 500, how growth managers combat high-flying stocks within the i ... Show More
38m 33s
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
37m 46s
Jul 2024
Talk Your Book: Investing in Corporate Culture
On today's show, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson are joined by Kristof Gleich of Harbor Capital and Scott Colson of Irrational Capital to discuss how the Human Capital Factor was discovered, what is being measured to quantify the Human Capital Factor, how advisors are utilizing t ... Show More
31m 41s
Mar 2025
Is a Recession Coming? (EP.402)
On episode 402 of Animal Spirits, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson discuss: GDP growth rolling over, the probability of a recession is rising, timing a bear market, Ray Dalio's crash calls, the crypto strategic reserve, the bull market in convenience, why we need Social Security, ... Show More
1 h
Nov 2024
A Once in a Lifetime Investment Opportunity (EP.385)
On episode 385 of Animal Spirits, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson discuss: Warren Buffett's massive cash pile, the performance of the average stock this year, the Polymarket whale, markets in everything, Twitter replies now and then, the cost of college is going down, Bitcoin is ... Show More
1h 12m
Join Downtown Josh Brown and Michael Batnick for another episode of What Are Your Thoughts and see what they have to say about: stock market selloffs, oil, IPOs, BCRED, mystery charts and more! This episo ... Show More
On episode 231 of The Compound and Friends, Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown are joined by Daniel Clifton and Chris Verrone of Strategas Research to discuss: AI's backlash, the Stock Rerating, ... Show More
