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Animal Spirits Podcast

Talk Your Book: Investing in Treasuries During a Debt Crisis

Animal Spirits Podcast

The Compound

Business News, News, Investing, Business

4.72.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

On today's show, we spoke with Alex Morris, Founder and CIO of F/m Investments on how Treasury ETFs work, why the 1mo is yielding so much, how government defaults could affect treasuries, and much more! Visit https://www.ustreasuryetf.com/ to learn more.   Find complete shownotes 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 animalspiritspod@gmail.com 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. Wealthcast Media, 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. Investments in securities involve the risk of loss. Any mention of a particular security and related performance data is not a recommendation to buy or sell that security. The information provided on this website (including any information that may be accessed through this website) is not directed at any investor or category of investors and is provided solely as general information. Obviously nothing on this channel should be considered as personalized financial advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any securities. See our disclosures here: https://ritholtzwealth.com/podcast-youtube-disclosures/ 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 US Benchmark series.

0:03.8

You can go to USTreasureETF.com to learn more about their targeted ETFs.

0:09.9

I think they have 3 month, 6 month, 12 month, 2 year, 3 year, 5 year, 7 year, 10 year, 20 year, 30 year.

0:15.4

The whole yield curve. It's at USTreasureETF.com.

0:21.0

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

0:25.0

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

0:30.1

All opinions expressed by Michael and Ben are solely their own opinion and do not reflect the opinion of Redholtz Wealth Management.

0:36.5

This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be relied upon for any investment decisions.

0:42.2

Clients of Redholtz Wealth Management may maintain positions in the securities discussed in this podcast.

0:50.6

Welcome to Animal Spirits with Michael and Ben.

0:52.9

This conversation with Alex Morris was recorded in the lobby.

0:59.0

What do you call that area? The foyer?

1:00.8

It's definitely not the foyer. That's in the house. I don't know.

1:03.1

Kind of a hallway. We were supposed to be doing it outside and weather intervened.

1:06.5

We were supposed to do it by the pool. We had our nice new animal spirit tropical brule shirts on.

1:11.3

The best part about it all. We walk across the, we were walking across from the bathroom.

1:15.8

There's a huge open area of these tables and we see two gentlemen across the way.

1:21.0

Also wearing tropical brule shirts. I mean, I pointed. Those are our guys.

1:27.7

One of them was Alex who is on the show and they were good sports about it and were their shirts and

1:32.2

we were supposed to be outside. We still got our mami voices to drink while we were recording live.

1:37.8

But we got to do a live show and it was great, right? I thought it's far, sometimes it's a little

1:45.6

harder to do those live shows. It did in person because there's just a different energy, especially

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