Animal Spirits is a show about markets, life, and investing. Join Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson as
On this week's show we're joined by Morgan Housel. We discuss Elon Musk's surprising announcement, t
Elon Musk's bizarre tweets, the types of companies that typically go private, why stock buybacks ar
The unraveling at Movie Pass, why Disney's streaming product will be a success, Fidelity's zero fee
Facebook's enormous stock price plunge, why life can be more challenging for young people today, th
The pie chart heard around the world, why concentrated gains in the stock market are nothing new,
The recession signal everyone is talking about, Amazon somehow being touted as a value stock, the p
The complexity of the trade war, tech IPOs, the surprisingly strong consumer balance sheet, the hou
How Bud Light used Dilly, Dilly to get you to buy more beer, some drawbacks of index funds, why he
Why household equity allocations are near all-time highs, why Robinhood could be the bank of choice
Some suggestions Barron's has for Warren Buffett, the latest Howard Marks letter, the "mother of al
We talk about Big Mistakes in the Wall Street Journal, how retirement investors are wising up, the
Michael's new book (Big Mistakes: The Best Investors and Their Worst Investments), how he came up w
The risks involved in concentrated stock positions, why factor investing is so hard, the limitati
The brilliance of John Bogle, how much money people in their 30s should have saved, how different a
Why market bubbles have nothing to do with ETFs, the multi-millionaire secretary's secret, the mass
On this week's show we discuss WeWork's community-adjusted EBITDA, Elon Musk vs. Warren Buffett &
The most common ages in the US and what it means for the markets, micro bubbles in tech stocks, Ama
Morgan Housel joins this week as guest host to discuss venture capital, annoying finance phrases,
Why the next recession won't be like the last one, what could possibly cause market returns to be
How to solve the financial literacy issue, the downfall of Bill Ackman & David Einhorn, how mu