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Animal Spirits Podcast

Millennials on Communism (EP.120)

Animal Spirits Podcast

The Compound

Investing, Business News, News, Business

4.72.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode, we discuss Ben's new book Don't Fall For It: A Short History of Financial Scams, the future of the publishing world, how markets respond to geopolitical uncertainty, why this bull market lacks euphoria, risks & opportunities from an aging population, how many people actually have a budget, 401k hacks and much more. Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Like us on Facebook And feel free to shoot us an email at animalspiritspod@gmail.com with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today's Animal Spirits is sponsored by our friends at Why Charts.

0:04.0

One of the reasons that I like Why Charts is because it makes our lives easier as

0:09.2

someone who's trying to provide content to people.

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So I wanted to see how US stocks have performed

0:17.1

under previous geopolitical crises. And so I went back and I looked at what

0:21.4

happened during World War II and the Korean War and the Vietnam

0:24.8

War and it was easy enough to pull up not only those charts but also put a headline on them.

0:30.4

So I put World War II and then in the bottom it has our little Redholtz wealth management logo so I love the fact that you can just take the data instead of having to transfer all over

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Put it in your own thing. It looks good. Why charts does that for you? Go see them

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tell them Animal Spirits send you and get 20% off of your initial subscription.

0:47.0

Welcome to Animal Spirits, a show about markets, life, and investing.

0:52.4

Join Michael Batnik and Ben Carlson. a show about markets, life, and investing.

0:52.8

Join Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson

0:55.1

as they talk about what they're reading, writing, and watching.

0:59.0

Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson work for Ritholz's wealth management. All opinions expressed by Michael and Ben or any

1:04.8

podcast guests are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of Ritholz wealth

1:09.3

management. This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be relied upon for investment decisions.

1:15.0

Clients of Ritholz wealth management may maintain positions in the securities discussed in this podcast.

1:20.0

Welcome to Animal Spirits with Michael and Bend.

1:22.0

A hearty congratulations and Ben. A hearty congratulations Ben on the upcoming release of your third and final book.

1:28.0

Potentially. It could be after what I went through this week with it, but as people read this my book should be

1:35.5

available at all finer book establishments except your local bookstore because

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