Predictions For 2025 (EP.394)

Animal Spirits Podcast

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4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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On episode 394 of Animal Spirits, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson discuss: all sorts of predictions for the upcoming year, the AI bubble, the roaring 2020s of stock market returns, financial regrets at age 80, housing is the business cycle, when to sell big winner, the VC drop-off, what to do when you get super rich, 50 things a man should not know, and much more! Join the thousands of parents who trust Fabric to protect their family. Apply today in just minutes at https://meetfabric.com/spirits. Sign up for The Compound newsletter and never miss out: thecompoundnews.com/subscribe Subscribe to The Unlock newsletter: https://www.advisorunlock.com/subscribe Find complete show notes on our blogs: Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Feel free to shoot us an email at [email protected] with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation. Investing involves the risk of loss. This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be or regarded as personalized investment advice or relied upon for investment decisions. Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson are employees of Ritholtz Wealth Management and may maintain positions in the securities discussed in this video. All opinions expressed by them are solely their own opinion and do not reflect the opinion of Ritholtz Wealth Management. The Compound Media, Incorporated, an affiliate of Ritholtz Wealth Management, receives payment from various entities for advertisements in affiliated podcasts, blogs and emails. Inclusion of such advertisements does not constitute or imply endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation thereof, or any affiliation therewith, by the Content Creator or by Ritholtz Wealth Management or any of its employees. For additional advertisement disclaimers see here https://ritholtzwealth.com/advertising-disclaimers. Investments in securities involve the risk of loss. Any mention of a particular security and related performance data is not a recommendation to buy or sell that security. The information provided on this website (including any information that may be accessed through this website) is not directed at any investor or category of investors and is provided solely as general information. Obviously nothing on this channel should be considered as personalized financial advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any securities. See our disclosures here: https://ritholtzwealth.com/podcast-youtube-disclosures/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's Animal Spirits is brought to you by Fabric.
0:03.0	Michael, as I reach middle age, one of the strange thing is that you start getting morbid thoughts.
0:07.4	Yeah.
0:08.2	Oh, you just started?
0:09.7	Well, yeah, I guess so.
0:11.7	Seeing your parents age and seeing their friends get sick or die, death and taxes, correct?
0:18.0	And I think maybe is that one of the reasons that people don't spend a lot of time planning for things like life insurance? Because they don't want to think
0:23.4	about that kind of estate planning, life insurance, they don't want to think about that stuff.
0:26.9	But would you rather just not have your family be covered, right? And not be okay if something,
0:31.1	God forbid, something should happen to you? Can I admit something to you right here right now in person. So I'm covered on life insurance. I did that pretty soon after the kid's born. Okay. Nothing with the estate. Okay. It's state planning is easy to put off as well.
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1:33.3	Welcome to Animal Spirits, a show about markets, life, and investing.
1:38.3	Join Michael Batnik and Ben Carlson as they talk about what they're reading, writing, and watching.
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