Talk Your Book: How Not To Invest Like Buffett

Animal Spirits Podcast

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🗓️ 19 April 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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On this special two-part episode of Animal Spirits: Talk Your Book, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson speak with Barry Ritholtz to discuss his new book, How Not To Invest. Barry is the co-founder and Chief Investment Officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management, as well as the host of the popular Bloomberg podcast Masters in Business. Then at the 30:00 mark, the guys talk with Alex Morris to discuss his new book, Buffett and Munger Unscripted. Alex is the founder of The Science of Hitting Investment Research. 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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0:38.3	Performance not guaranteed. Welcome to Animal Spirits, a show about markets, life, and investing.
0:45.6	Join Michael Batnik and Ben Carlson as they talk about what they're reading, writing, and watching.
0:50.8	All opinions expressed by Michael and Ben are solely their own opinion and do not reflect
0:54.9	the opinion of Ridholt's wealth management. This podcast is for informational purposes only and
0:59.7	should not be relied upon for any investment decisions. Clients of Ridholt's wealth management
1:04.3	may maintain positions in the securities discussed in this podcast.
1:12.8	Welcome to Animal Spirts with Michael and Ben.
1:17.3	Ben, I got to tell you, there are some people that have said, like, oh, if you're an investing, don't read investment books or there are people who invest in that don't
1:21.4	enjoy reading investment books because they spend all day in the numbers.
1:24.5	And I totally get that everybody's point of view is different on every topic in life.
1:29.2	So, but for me, I still very much enjoy reading investment books. I got to tell you, they don't,
1:34.4	it's not old, they don't get old for me. I still get something out of it too. I feel like sometimes
1:39.3	you need, even if it's just evergreen messages, you need them beat into your head again and again to
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