The Insanity of the Markets with Ben & Emil
Better Offline
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 688 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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On this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by the hosts of the Ben & Emil show to talk about how the markets have been driven insane by semiconductor buzz and social media hysteria.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:06.6 | CoolZone Media. |
| 0:10.3 | Mima more at Zitron Crusades. |
| 0:32.1 | But today I'm joined by two of the finest finance podcasters are live. |
| 0:37.0 | That's right. We've got Ben and Amiel from the |
| 0:38.9 | Ben and Amiel show, fellas. Thank you for joining me. Wow. Thank you so much. Cue the applause. And you can't see them. We're both, we're both wearing matching gray shirts today. Yeah, we didn't call in that. Yeah. They've, um, and you can't see this because it's not a video podcast, but they are actually at their studio space with the two desks. |
| 0:56.8 | These guys have the actual, I love Ben and Emile's setup. |
| 1:00.3 | They have a real studio with clocks and everything. |
| 1:03.0 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:03.6 | I can't draw one of those. |
| 1:04.9 | We spend $100,000 on this studio and it's just a money pit we keep throwing money at. |
| 1:10.8 | Much like people keep throwing money at. Much like, much like people |
| 1:12.9 | keep throwing money at these memory stocks. Whoa. Geez, Louise. These Koreans. Now, this whole |
| 1:20.2 | conversation started though with you and me, Ben, talking about how finance Twitter is this new |
| 1:26.4 | insane thing. And I've been, I'm this new insane thing. |
| 1:28.0 | And I've been, I'm relatively new to it. |
| 1:30.1 | I feel like you, you douse yourself in it fairly often. |
| 1:33.6 | But my process when I go on and read finance Twitter now is just seeing how many people are going insane in a particular day and what they're going insane about. |
| 1:45.4 | Yeah. And it's usually an axios article about oil. Yeah, oil these days, it doesn't matter anymore. I mean, I'm really, |
| 1:53.6 | really dialed in on finance Twitter and I have been for a long time. And it's become a really, |
| 1:59.2 | really fascinating place. I was just ruminating on this last night |
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