It Was Hard to Lose Money This Year: What Are Your Thoughts? (with Josh and Michael)
The Compound and Friends
Josh Brown
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🗓️ 17 December 2019
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi it's Josh Brown welcome to what are your thoughts I'm here with Michael Batnik as always |
| 0:04.7 | Michael Michael has no idea what I'm going to ask him about I don't know what he's going to ask me about |
| 0:09.5 | it's our favorite game let's play it stick around |
| 0:13.6 | Okay I have the first topic, and I think this year was really fascinating. |
| 0:18.8 | I tweeted out, it was almost impossible to lose money this year. |
| 0:22.4 | So I just want to run down real quick a couple of these returns for some indices. |
| 0:27.8 | S&P plus 26.4%, Dow up 20%, Nasdaq up 30 something, 32%. 0.20% percent. |
| 0:32.8 | Nasdaq up 30 something, 32 percent. |
| 0:36.7 | Russell, 22 percent. |
| 0:38.7 | Europe you made money. |
| 0:40.0 | 20 percent. |
| 0:40.7 | Japan, 17 percent. |
| 0:42.4 | What's a question? |
| 0:44.2 | Emerging more, like go down the list. |
| 0:45.8 | The only thing you could have lost money in |
| 0:49.3 | is the volatility index if you bought the VIX if you were obsessing with |
| 0:53.8 | Val this is one of the years diversification didn't mean having to say you're |
| 0:59.4 | sorry like just about everything you did worked because even bonds give you double digits close to. |
| 1:04.6 | Yeah, you made money in junk. |
| 1:06.0 | All right, so? |
| 1:07.0 | You made money in investment grade. |
| 1:08.6 | Is it likely that you'll have multiple years in a row |
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