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Animal Spirits Podcast

Talk Your Book: Interest Rates Go Kablooey

Animal Spirits Podcast

The Compound

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4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

On this two-part episode of Animal Spirits: Talk Your Book, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson speak with Jason Greenblath of American Century Investments about short duration fixed income, remaining active during recessions, inflationary spikes and fixed income. Then, at the 21:30 mark, the guys speak with Christian Hoffmann of Thornburg Investment Management to discuss opportunities in global credit markets, recession risk, heightened volatility, the Fed and inflation, 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today's Animal Spirits Talk Your Book is brought to you by our friends at NASDAQ.

0:04.0

Go to AmericanCentury.com and Thornburg.com for more information on the funds discussed on today's episode.

0:12.0

Welcome to Animal Spirits, a show about markets, life, and investing.

0:16.0

Join Michael Batnik and Ben Carlson as they talk about what they're reading, writing, and watching.

0:21.5

All opinions expressed by Michael and Ben are solely their own opinion and do not reflect the

0:25.8

opinion of Ridholt's wealth management. This podcast is for informational purposes only and

0:30.5

should not be relied upon for any investment decisions. Clients of Ridholt's wealth management

0:35.0

may maintain positions in the securities discussed in this podcast.

0:41.7

Welcome to Animal Spirits with Michael and Ben.

0:43.8

And today's show, we talked to Jason Greenblatt.

0:45.8

Jason is a VP in Senior Portfolio Management, Director of Corporate Credit Research for American Century Investments.

0:51.0

We talked all about the changing landscape fixed income, how it's

0:54.4

much harder than it was in the past, and how to think about short duration fixed income,

0:59.2

which is something that people have learned the benefits of this decade, I feel like.

1:02.5

Yeah. We also spoke with Christian Hoffman. Christian is the head of fixed income and a portfolio

1:08.5

manager for Thornburg investment management.

1:11.2

So this, we recorded this on Wednesday after Powell's 19th presser of the last four

1:18.1

weeks.

1:18.4

He's been front and center, which I guess is appropriate given the state of uncertainty.

1:23.4

And he effectively said, uh, not on us.

1:28.9

They are not going to step in.

1:31.8

My take was he quoted Ferris Bueller.

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