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Animal Spirits Podcast

Trading the Election (EP.175)

Animal Spirits Podcast

The Compound

Business News, News, Investing, Business

4.72.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

On this week's show we discuss how to think about your portfolio in relation to the presidential election, how markets tend to react during the post-election period, is it finally time for value to outperform growth, the resistance of the U.S. economy, the best new show of 2020 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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Welcome to Animal Spirits, a show about markets, life and investing.

0:31.0

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

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watching.

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

0:41.0

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

0:45.3

and do not reflect the opinion of Ritholz wealth management.

0:48.3

This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be relied upon for investment decisions.

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Clients of RIT holds wealth management may maintain positions in the securities

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discussed in this podcast.

0:58.0

Welcome to Animal Spirits with Michael and Ben.

1:01.6

Last week the stock market was down 6% or so I guess and you put out a post that actually I agree with title you said who cares

1:09.7

basically this happens this is the stock market get used to it the reason behind it doesn't matter that much

1:16.4

Our stocks up today because stocks were down on Friday ostensibly on I don't know pre-election jitters are they up today on jitters I don't know I

1:23.8

I think that headlines for a while now we're just gonna say stocks are up

1:28.8

on pandemic slash election stocks are down on pandemic slash election.

1:33.9

But my thought process is your who cares line of thinking, which most of the time will serve

1:39.6

you well as an investor.

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