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The Compound and Friends

The Dumb Money

The Compound and Friends

Josh Brown

Business News, News, Investing, Business

4.72.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2023

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

On this TCAF Tuesday, Leif Abraham and Jannick Malling join Downtown Josh Brown (CEO, Ritholtz Wealth Management) to discuss the story of Public.com, and "The Dumb Money" events and meme stock craze of January 2021. Then join Downtown Josh Brown and Michael Batnick (Managing Partner, Ritholtz Wealth Management) for another episode of What Are Your Thoughts and see what they have to say about the biggest topics in investing and finance! Thanks to Rocket Money for sponsoring this episode! Go to https://rocketmoney.com/compound for more info. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKnTZZCgJQc 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 Josh Brown 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

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the compound and friends. It's Tuesday night. We have an amazing show for you. First up

0:06.4

I talk to Yannick Molling and life Abraham of the public app and public.com and they were in the midst of the

0:16.0

GameStop short squeeze in January of 2021

0:20.0

Which is now the subject of a big movie that's opening up called the dumb money and I saw the movie and it's got some great

0:27.9

performances from Pete Davidson Seth Rogan's in the movie Nick Offerman and just a lot of great acting and a lot of funny scenes and it basically tells the story from the perspective of the

0:40.8

Traders who were on one side of the short squeeze the Wall Street Betts crowd and then the hedge fund managers who were on the other side of that historic short

0:50.0

squeeze so I talked to life and Yannick about what it was like trying to run the app. There was one moment in time where Robin Hood actually cut off the buy button for GameStop and all of these traders started to open accounts at once on public and there was one moment where they were opening five accounts per second and keep in mind public is like a venture back start up at that point. They don't have the capacity for this but they also don't want to miss the moment.

1:20.0

So we get some really great inside stories from that period of time and then we play what are your thoughts with Michael batnik and Michael pitches some stocks. We get into what's going on in the bond market.

1:33.0

A little bit of a preview of the PCE number inflation number that's coming out at the end of this week Apple launched a new phone this week lots of stuff going on. So please enjoy the show and that's it from me. I'll send you right there now.

1:51.0

Welcome to the compound and friends all opinions expressed by Josh Brown Michael batnik and their cast mates are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of Red Holt's wealth management.

2:02.0

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

2:07.0

Finds of Red Holt's wealth management may maintain positions in the securities discussed in this podcast.

2:14.0

Hey everyone downtown Josh Brown. I'm here with two friends of mine. Life Abraham and Yannick Molling. They are the guys behind one of our favorite sponsors and favorite companies public public dot com in the public app.

2:29.0

Welcome life. Welcome. Yannick. Thanks so much for joining us today.

2:33.0

Nice. Thanks for having us.

2:35.0

All right. Yannick this is audio. Give me a bigger hello than that.

2:39.0

Hello Josh. It's great to be back here.

2:42.0

Well done. All right. Guys we're going to talk about dumb money. So for those who don't know dumb money is the film that tells the story of mostly January and February of 2021.

2:55.0

Which I think is going to go down in history as one of the most notable Wall Street slash investing trading moments of all time.

3:06.0

You had a record setting number of new investors start to check out the stock markets in 2020.

3:14.0

As a result of the pandemic it was literally the only game in town and many of those investors probably by now have learned enough to have become better investors.

3:25.0

But in those early relatively early days let's just say there was a lot of experimentation.

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