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Animal Spirits Podcast
The Compound
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🗓️ 31 January 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode is brought to you by Rocket Dollar. We had Henry Yoshida on the podcast a couple of months ago, |
| 0:09.0 | back in August, talking about Rocket Dollar, which is a company that allows you to invest in |
| 0:14.6 | alternatives using your IRA. So to learn more, check out rocket dollar.com slash animal spirits. |
| 0:24.6 | Welcome to Animal Spirits, a show about markets, life, and investing. Join Michael |
| 0:30.3 | Batnik and Ben Carlson as they talk about what they're reading, writing, and watching. |
| 0:35.7 | Michael Battenick and Ben Carlson work for Ritt Holtz Wealth Management. |
| 0:39.5 | All opinions expressed by Michael and Ben or any podcast guests are solely their own opinions |
| 0:43.8 | and do not reflect the opinion of Rit Holt's Wealth Management. |
| 0:46.8 | This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be relied upon for investment decisions. |
| 0:51.7 | Clients of Rithold's wealth management may maintain positions |
| 0:54.3 | in the securities discussed in this podcast. All right, Ben, we are doing listener questions today. |
| 1:02.1 | And I would love to see like a word plot, a cloud plot, a scatter plot, whatever of like words |
| 1:09.3 | that we get over time from our email listeners. |
| 1:12.7 | What would your words be? |
| 1:13.9 | Well, it's just interesting when we get like leverage and growth and cloud and momentum. |
| 1:19.0 | I don't know. |
| 1:19.4 | Just cash investing. |
| 1:21.8 | But anyway, the point that I'm making is we got obviously, and this is definitely not to knock on |
| 1:25.8 | our audience at all because we have an amazing audience. But just the ebbs and flows of the tone of the emails is pretty interesting |
| 1:31.5 | to see in real time. So 15 months ago, the majority of our emails were saying, I feel like I'd be an |
| 1:38.8 | idiot to not put all of my money into growth stocks, crypto, whatever, everything that was flying. |
| 1:44.2 | Or I'm 25 and I've got a 40-year time horizon. Why wouldn't I invest in TQQQ? Which I think actually we got an email. I think we have one of those in the docs today. Yes. We get a lot of those. Yeah, I don't know if that stuff will change. And it's saying, listen, I understand the downside. You guys have schooled me on this, but I think I can live with it. |
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