Talk Your Book: A Better Money Market Fund

Animal Spirits Podcast

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🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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On this episode of Animal Spirits: Talk Your Book, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson are joined by Alex Morris, CEO and Mark Spindel, Senior Advisor for F/m Investments to discuss how TIPS work, why it was so hard to hedge inflation in 2022, difficulties around inflation-protected investing, and much more! 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. Check out the latest in financial blogger fashion at The Compound shop: https://www.idontshop.com 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. See our disclosures here: https://ritholtzwealth.com/podcast-youtube-disclosures/ 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's Animal Spirits Talk Your Book is brought to you by FM Investments.
0:03.7	Go to US Treasuryetf.com to learn more about their whole suite of products.
0:07.3	But today we were talking about our bill, brand new ultra-short US Tips Fund.
0:12.8	USTreshertyfs.com to learn more.
0:17.1	Welcome to Animal Spirits, a show about markets, life, and investing.
0:22.3	Join Michael Batnik and Ben Carlson as they talk about what they're reading, writing, and watching. All opinions expressed by
0:27.5	Michael and Ben are solely their own opinion and do not reflect the opinion of Ridholt's wealth
0:31.8	management. This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be relied upon
0:36.4	for any investment decisions.
0:38.4	Clients of Rittholds wealth management may maintain positions in the securities discussed in this podcast.
0:46.6	Welcome to Animal Spirits with Michael and Ben.
0:49.9	Michael, we got a lot of angry-ish emails in 2022, 2023 from people who said, hey, listen,
0:55.4	I was worried about inflation.
0:57.2	I put my money in tips.
0:58.7	What happened?
0:59.5	Explain it to me.
1:00.7	Because all they see is inflation protected security.
1:03.9	And that's all you need to hear because so is it false advertising or what was it?
1:08.0	Bad branding.
1:09.4	A little bit.
1:10.6	So what happened is a lot of people
1:11.8	invested in longer duration tips because a lot of those ETFs are longer duration. And when
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