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Animal Spirits Podcast

The Worst Time To Buy a Home (EP.205)

Animal Spirits Podcast

The Compound

Business News, News, Investing, Business

4.72.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

On today's show we discuss Tesla vs. Ford, the Robinhood effect, why 24/7 markets make volatility worse, trying to explain what DeFi is, the Frankenstein economy, why this is the worst time ever to be a home buyer, the greatest of Joe Pesci and 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 annual spirit is brought to you by our friends at Y-charts.

0:02.5

One of my favorite simple tools used on Y-charts is just a comparison under the key stats

0:09.1

heading to other companies.

0:11.7

So if you type in Tesla, T-S-L-A, you pull it up and you can do a key stats comparison

0:16.6

to all of their competitors.

0:17.9

So GM forward, all these things.

0:20.3

And I think this is interesting because Ford just announced last week they're doing this

0:24.2

electric vehicle F-150.

0:25.8

We've talked about how F-150s could be ruining people's retirement in the past.

0:30.2

That's one of my theories.

0:32.0

It's been the most popular car truck sold for like the last 15 years.

0:36.2

And what was the number?

0:37.2

You put this story here.

0:38.2

How many were?

0:39.2

556,000 F-150s were sold in 2020.

0:45.1

Okay.

0:46.1

And then there was, I don't know, 50,000 people on the wait list right away to get this

0:48.7

thing.

0:49.7

It's going to be priced for like $40,000.

0:51.6

Pretty cheap.

0:52.6

And it...

0:53.6

Well, you're talking about F-150 Lightning.

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