The Short Squeeze (EP.122)

Animal Spirits Podcast

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Investing, Business News, News, Business

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🗓️ 22 January 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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On this week's show we discuss Tesla's wild ride, fixing the US retirement system, why financial literacy doesn't always work, why the Fed isn't to blame for everything in the markets, long-term market return expectations, where are all the start-ups and much more. 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	Today's Animal Spirits is brought to you by our friends at YCharts.
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0:08.5	Welcome to Animal Spirits, a show about markets, life, and investing.
0:14.0	Join Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson
0:16.3	as they talk about what they're reading, writing, and watching.
0:20.2	Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson
0:21.9	worked for Ritholz Wealth Management.
0:23.6	All opinions expressed by Michael and Ben or any podcast guests are solely their own opinions
0:28.1	and do not reflect the opinion of Ritholz Wealth Management.
0:30.9	This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be relied upon for investment decisions.
0:35.8	Clients of Rittold's Wealth Management may maintain positions in the securities discussed in this podcast.
0:41.3	Welcome to Animal Spirits with Michael LeBahn.
0:44.1	I believe it was last week or the week before, Google, Alphabet, whatever, entered the trillion
0:49.3	dollar club.
0:50.7	So now it's Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon's just a fell a little bit below.
0:56.0	So then that's the Four Horseman and then coming up behind them you've got
1:00.0	Ali Baba which is I think 600 plus billion, Berkshire Hathaway, five something, 10 cents, four something.
1:08.0	Anyway, question for you, Ben, what do you think is more likely? That Apple gets to 2 trillion or that the next group gets to 1 trillion or neither and we're going lower?
1:21.0	I don't know which round round numbers impress you more?
1:24.0	Trillion dollar companies are Dow 30,000.
1:26.0	Hmm.
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