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Our friend Phil Perlman likes to say the higher the Vicks, the higher the clicks

and being in the content game as we are, we have to be on our game when markets are falling, right?

It's not that fun to write about the markets when they're rising.

I enjoy it more when they're falling.

And that's honestly when a lot of people come to read our stuff is when markets are falling.

So we leaned heavily on why charts

last week because we were shooting out that content very fast were we not?

Yeah, somebody was like, geez, you guys are on fire and I responded, it's been over a year since markets have given us the opportunity

to write about this.

I agree, it's, I don't want to say it's more fun, but I feel like to the extent that we can help people, we do a better job at a bare market.

That's when people start reading that don't usually read this stuff.

Right.

And we leaned heavily on Y-Charts last week because they have a ton of historical data that we could use present data.

We use a lot and we're going to be using it throughout this episode but they made our lives a lot easier because we had that data at our fingertips and much easier to use and share with each other on

slack for the stuff that didn't go out and client letters and all that stuff.

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

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

Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson work for Rit Holt's wealth management.

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