BAES 141: How Did this Guy Just Crash the Market?

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🗓️ 26 February 2026

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James van Geelen, known on finance twitter as Citrini, has made a MASSIVE name for himself over the last few years. In fact, he has the most popular paid substack in the finance vertical. On Sunday, he put out a blog post that caused sheer panic to reverberate throughout the markets. It's insane. We'll explain what he was saying in the post, and the market's reaction. NEW MERCH OUT! Get 10% off when you sign up and also get bonus content, ad-free versions and more plus your first 7 days free at https://benandemilshow.com ***THE SOUTHWEST COMPANION PASS IS BACK GET IT HERE: https://www.cardratings.com/bestcards/featured-credit-cards?src=691608&shnq=520080,4028088,4048122,4028085,3006151,4048149,4028089,4048084&var2= The newest acid video is out now so check it out! https://youtu.be/7vkFY3f5kkw WATCH THE LATEST EPISODE OF EMIL'S NEW SHOW! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHG9iIjhXvI OUR NEW CREDIT CARD SITE IS LIVE!!! Go get that AMEX personal card before it's gone! https://thecreditcardlist.com Give this video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it! And please leave us a comment! It helps us! ***Ben's new movies and tv podcast with Dillon is OUT NOW! GO WATCH the latest episode on our TOP MOVIES OF 2025: https://youtu.be/tbC-cMqcby8?si=tO0NK0PmpN2187ir **CHECK OUT EMIL'S LIVESTREAMS HERE: https://www.youtube.com/emilderosa __ SOME OTHER VIDEOS YOU MAY ENJOY: That's Cringe of Cody Ko: https://youtu.be/dTbEk0pVh2w Our AUSTIN VIDEO: https://youtu.be/yGSs56bFzRU Our episode with Kyla Scanlon: https://youtu.be/cIHWkY35cuc Big Tech is out of ideas (ft. ED ZITRON): https://youtu.be/zBvVGHZBpMw Arguing with a millionaire (ft. Chris Camillo): https://youtu.be/1ZUWTkWV_MM We bought suits HERE: https://youtu.be/_cM1XqA9n2U ***LINK TO OUR DISCORD: https://discord.gg/CjujBt8g ***Subscribe to Emil's Substack: https://substack.com/@emilderosa ***Trade with Ben at https://tradertreehouse.com __ MIZZEN+MAIN: Get 20% off your first purchase at https://mizzenandmain.com with promo code BAES20. __ Follow us on instagram! @ benandemilshow @ bencahn @ emilderosa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Just so you know, a substack post has absolutely...
0:03.4	Riled the markets.
0:04.1	It just destabilized the foundation of the market.
0:07.6	A blog post.
0:08.5	A blog post, everybody.
0:10.5	Agentic AI is going to get so good.
0:13.0	It's going to lead to a crisis in the economy.
0:16.2	Within two years, white-collar workers are pushed out of the workforce and forced to take
0:20.8	low-paying
0:21.8	menial jobs until those eventually go away as well. Like companies are going, oh my God,
0:27.8	this is great. We're, our margins are through the roof. The margins aren't saying we can do what
0:31.9	we're doing layoffs and, uh, you know, productivity is not impacted. In fact, it's skyrocketing as well.
0:37.7	Everything's going.
0:38.8	Obviously, there's probably going to be some automation in certain industries like that,
0:42.9	whether trucking and whatnot and manual labor.
0:46.4	Dude, put a guy in there.
0:47.7	Even if it's all completely 100% safe, you know, give him a button to press every 45 minutes or whatever.
1:11.9	To keep it going? Look, we figured it out, but the truck explodes if this guy doesn't hit the button every 45 minutes. It's a dead man switch. You get home and, you know, your wife's like, how is working? The button was sticky today. I spilled my grape soda on the button. I had a couple issues with the button today but you know overall and she's like yeah
1:12.7	I had a couple button things come up
1:14.3	all hands on deck meetings
1:15.7	where everyone's hitting the button
1:16.8	yeah
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