Talk Your Book: What's Working in the Stock Market?
Animal Spirits Podcast
The Compound
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🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today's Animal Spirits Talk Your Book is brought to you by Franklin Templeton. Go to Franklin Templeton.com to learn more about all of their different funds, research, analysis, tools. |
| 0:08.8 | Franklin Templeton.com to learn more. |
| 0:12.6 | Welcome to Animal Spirits, a show about markets, life, and investing. Join Michael Batnik and Ben as they talk about what they're reading, writing, and watching. |
| 0:21.8 | All opinions expressed by Michael and Ben are solely their own opinion and do not reflect the opinion of Riddholz wealth management. |
| 0:28.2 | This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be relied upon for any investment decisions. |
| 0:33.9 | Clients of Riddholt's wealth management may maintain positions in the securities discussed in this podcast. |
| 0:41.9 | Welcome to Animal Spirits with Michael and Ben. |
| 0:45.1 | Today is February 23rd. |
| 0:47.2 | We're recording an intro. |
| 0:48.5 | Michael is depressed. |
| 0:50.1 | And we are thinking through the ramifications of AI. We just had a great talk with Chris Gallipo from Franklin Templeton. And we're just, we're trying to think through all the different ramifications here. What's going on to the market? Why is this moving? Why is this changing? Why is this overreacting? And obviously everything just comes back to AI eventually. It's a Monday. It's snowy. It's gloomy. We all read |
| 1:12.9 | Satrinas piece over the weekend about what could come to pass. And I am, yeah, I'm not feeling, |
| 1:19.1 | I wasn't feeling too great after reading that. More on the, more on the human level. Like, |
| 1:23.0 | you know, obviously the stock market, as we get into today, is not confidence inspiring, but it's so much |
| 1:29.3 | bigger than that. Yeah, this has the potential to be a societal shifting type of technology. |
| 1:34.1 | And you're thinking through the macro ramifications and the market ramifications, |
| 1:37.3 | then the human side of things, too, right? That's a whole other thing. Like, hey, guess what? |
| 1:41.3 | The market could be fine, but there could be a huge human toll |
| 1:44.3 | for this, right? Market could see plenty of profit increases from this. Margins increase, right? |
| 1:50.0 | The stock market could be just fine, and millions of people are out of the job. You're right, |
| 1:54.9 | that's the human toll that is giving you the black cloud. I think we're going to be okay. |
| 2:01.3 | That's where I've landed on this. |
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