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Animal Spirits Podcast

Redefining a Recession (EP.267)

Animal Spirits Podcast

The Compound

News, Business News, Business, Investing

4.72.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

On today's show we discuss why the middle class is getting squeezed, why it's so hard to define what a recession is, boring stocks are outperforming, the size of the housing market, why negotiating will be making a comeback, spending time alone 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today's animal spirits is brought to you by Composer.

0:03.0

Michael and I have been talking to the founders of Composer for a number of months now

0:05.8

to kind of better learn how their website works.

0:08.8

And this is a cool thing.

0:09.6

So I pulled up two different, what do you call it, symphonies.

0:12.8

Well, what is Composer?

0:13.7

And this is back out. What's Composer?

0:15.2

So Composer is basically a place where you can do quantitative rules-based frameworks

0:21.7

for asset allocation, trading strategies.

0:24.5

And you can go really deep on here.

0:25.6

You're basically creating your own algorithms using their tools.

0:28.4

It's like a portfolio visualizer, like one to step further.

0:32.0

And you can actually implement all of those back tests.

0:34.6

Yes. So just to give you a better idea of the various strategies you can do on Composer,

0:40.2

some of them could be very detailed and more trade-oriented.

0:44.3

Some of them could be more longer-term.

0:45.4

So they have one that's called the Stoic Finance Presence, inflation spiral hedge.

0:50.8

Obviously, this is a strategy that is looking to take advantage of inflation.

0:54.3

And this has commodities, gold, short 20-year-plus-year treasuries, and consumer staples.

1:00.6

So four ETFs.

1:02.0

This portfolio was 40% in 1919, Germany.

1:07.7

I can't remember what those years were, but just go with it.

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