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Animal Spirits Podcast

The Fed's Bazooka (EP.137)

Animal Spirits Podcast

The Compound

Investing, Business News, Business, News

4.72.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

We discuss the latest unemployment numbers, the massive help coming from the Fed, why markets are so confusing at the moment, a new theory on forward stock market returns and why investing is so difficult in this environment. Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Like us on Facebook And feel free to shoot us an email at animalspiritspod@gmail.com with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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

0:05.0

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

0:11.0

Michael Batnik and Ben Carlson worked for Ritholz Wealth Management.

0:15.0

All opinions expressed by Michael and Ben or any podcast guests are solely their own opinions

0:19.7

and do not reflect the opinion of Ritholz wealth management.

0:22.4

This podcast is for informational purposes only. not be relied upon for

0:23.3

for informational purposes only and should not be relied upon for

0:26.4

investment decisions.

0:27.8

Clients of Ritholz wealth management may maintain positions in the securities

0:30.8

discussed in this podcast.

0:32.2

Welcome to Animal Spirits with Michael and Ben.

0:35.0

You got some gray coming in on your beard.

0:38.0

It's looking good.

0:40.0

My six-year-old has been reminded me of that every single day.

0:43.5

You know, I think that I've been punished for something because not only my bald, I can't grow facial hair.

0:49.5

At all?

0:50.5

I mean, do you say it? I got nothing. This is like two days. It's not much. But even when I do, my skin gets bad, I get itchy.

0:56.5

Mine's getting to the itchy point. My wife's been asking me to shave it, but I'm staying with it.

1:01.2

I've seen on our Zoom set facial hair is up a few

1:03.7

hundred percent just anecdotally but not over here. All right so this morning we're

1:08.8

recording it's Thursday morning and we just got a lot of news at 8.30 in the morning.

1:14.0

I feel like we could do a daily podcast.

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