today's animal spirits is brought to you by masterworks i got an update my portfolio performance as of june and not to brag

i've got five paintings four to five are up now doesn't mean an exit but according to the marks

i've got this nice here cesselly brown painting 44 percent up

not bad it's pretty good my cash is down 8 percent so i'll take it that's true still waiting for

elusive exit like ben had but i'll take the wins when i get them 2022 wins are hard to come by

i got an update too all my paintings that have marks are up besides the new ones that have marks

my gunther forg is down a little bit i knew i shouldn't have bought that gunther forg dammit

how about this rich people are good hedge against inflation because rich people like to complain but

do they really pull back during inflation not that much right i don't think so

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positions and the securities discussed in this podcast welcome to animal spirits with michael and

ben ben you just mentioned something you just said it out loud that we're in a bear market now listen

i know we're in a bear market but it does feel a little weird to hear you say that it's like

sure we're in a bear market we have been in one technically for a couple weeks but realistically

for a few months now probably we technically came out of the bear market we poked our head above

for a second now we're back down below so we're recording this on Tuesday at 12 20 eastern

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