Today's animal spirits is brought to you by Masterworks Ben and I have spoken with Scott

Lynn in the past how art has a zero correlation with the S&P 500 and there's a really neat

chart that we'll throw in the show notes showing the performance of art in years where the S&P 500

has struggled and you will see it marshes to the beat of its own drum. Sometimes it falls with

stocks, but oftentimes it rises. It actually has positive performance. Sometimes when stocks fall.

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Management maintain positions in the securities discussed in this podcast. Welcome to animal

spirits with Michael and Ben. I want to Las Vegas of the Northeast, Mohican Sun over the weekend.

It's been a while. So Connecticut is overtaken Atlantic City as the Vegas of the Northeast?

Last time I went to Atlantic City was February 2020. I went for the Super Bowl and my friends and

I were like man this place it's got them beat up and I said like the next recession this place

is gone. Never come back. So we had a recession. I can't imagine Atlantic City's doing too well

right now. So anyway on the other hand everyone turned into a degenerate gambler last year.

This is true but you don't need the Atlantic City to gamble anymore.

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