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Animal Spirits Podcast

What Worked on Wall Street (EP.40)

Animal Spirits Podcast

The Compound

Business News, News, Investing, Business

4.72.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Facebook's enormous stock price plunge, why life can be more challenging for young people today, the death of trend-following, hedge funds that don't want your money, the perfect day, the race to zero in ETFs, Elizabeth Banks as a fan of mid caps, why pop culture contrarian indicators don't work 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

Welcome to Animal Spirits, the podcast that takes a completely different look at markets and investing,

0:06.4

hosted by Michael Baddick and Ben Carlson, two guys who study the markets as a passion and invest for all the right reasons.

0:14.6

Michael Batnik and Ben Carlson work for Rit Holt's wealth management.

0:18.0

All opinions expressed by Michael and Ben or any podcast guests are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of

0:23.9

Ritt Holt's wealth management. This podcast is for informational purposes only and

0:27.8

should not be relied upon for investment decisions. Clients of Ritthold's

0:31.0

wealth management may maintain positions in the securities discussed in this podcast

0:35.9

Welcome to Animal Spirits with Michael and Ben.

0:38.8

Last Thursday Facebook stock cratered after reported I guess lousy

0:45.2

lousy earnings stock was down like 19 or 20 percent of the day and it had the

0:49.3

largest dollar decline in a single stock ever. This was a pretty cool chart, whoever came up with this.

0:55.0

It says it's source to facts that, but yeah, Facebook had the largest decline in billions of dollars ever.

1:00.0

I guess the largest one was actually Intel in September of 2000. And of course all of these

1:04.3

have happened since 2000, which makes sense since stock market has gotten bigger over time. But my initial

1:10.7

slack to you the night of Facebook's decline after hours was it's down 20%.

1:16.8

I'm thinking about buying this. That is like the thing that pops in my head right away.

1:20.7

What was your initial thought?

1:22.8

Not yet.

1:23.8

Right.

1:25.8

That like, honestly, that's like the intuitive thing that comes to me

1:28.5

when I see something like this happen is it's time to get in

1:31.9

and catch this falling knife. Of course I didn't but that's the first

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