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hosted by Michael Bannick and Ben Carlson, two guys who study the markets as a passion and invest for all the right reasons.

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Welcome to Animal Spirits with Michael and Ben. If you follow us into the 100-year bond

Argentinian short in the past weeks, we're going to take some money off the table and put it into Italian two year bonds

Apparently that's the crisis de jure

Apparently Italian bonds two year bonds plunge the most since the euro came into existence because people were worried it could leave the common currency.

I'm still trying to catch up on the Cyprus crisis from a few years ago, so I'm kind of behind on this one.

Yeah, this is like 2011 all over again.

Which, yeah, I feel like do we have to start learning central bankers' names in Europe again?

I refuse.

Then we forget, the market forgets about in two months?

Okay.

We'll see where this goes.

So a reader shared with us an amazing thread on on Reddit and the title is my dad has

1.8 million dollars worth of GE. What should he do? This is roughly 90% of his stock portfolio I wanted to

diversify a few years back but he's held the stock for years and is quite stubborn he's

67 years old as retired for GE within the next year or so he will then receive a

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