Is the Fed Trapped? (EP.239)
Animal Spirits Podcast
The Compound
4.7 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today's animal spirits is brought to you by masterworks to learn more go to masterworks.io slash animal |
| 0:06.9 | Ben this book just came in the mail |
| 0:10.5 | You read this didn't you? It's a good one great beanie. The great beanie baby bubble |
| 0:15.5 | I decided to read this haven't read it yet |
| 0:19.4 | I'm not saying that NFT cartoon character profile picture whatever NFTs are in a bubble |
| 0:25.4 | But it kind of feels like they're in a bubble. I'll say that and I understand it's different this time |
| 0:29.1 | And there's utility and digital scarcity |
| 0:31.4 | But I feel like there might be some power loss to this great beanie baby bubble |
| 0:35.1 | Am I right? I wrote a blog post on this not too long ago and the collectibles boom happened and someone said at the time |
| 0:41.6 | How it shouldn't be shocking that beanie babies so high they said after all people were shocked when Picasso's paintings surpassed a million dollar mark |
| 0:48.1 | So they were comparing beanie babies to Picasso |
| 0:51.0 | Now we're going to talk about NFTs on the show. I forgot some thoughts. I'm sure there's been art bubbles in the past |
| 0:56.0 | Probably but maybe not because of the transmission mechanism to invest in art as quickly as |
| 1:02.4 | Beanie babies with eBay and NFTs with open sea did not exist |
| 1:06.6 | But think about the fact that how many painters actually made it after 500 years of worth of art |
| 1:12.7 | Versus how many people can create an NFT today. Well as an art investor via masterworks |
| 1:17.6 | I'm hoping for a bubble there. I said it. I'm hoping that we get an art bubble |
| 1:21.6 | I would love for our paintings to appreciate by triple digits |
| 1:24.6 | Let's get it in on the phone for more information go to masterworks.io slash animal and please see important disclosures at masterworks.io |
| 1:33.1 | slash disclaimer |
| 1:35.1 | Welcome to animal spirits a show about markets life and investing join Michael batnik and Ben Carlson as they talk about with their reading writing and watching |
| 1:46.0 | Michael batnik and Ben Carlson work for writholds wealth management |
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