Animal Spirits Podcast

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Animal Spirits is a show about markets, life, and investing. Join Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson as they talk about what they're reading, writing, listening to and watching. Look for new episodes every Wednesday morning. See our…

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Are Free Markets Dead? (EP. 479) 2026-08-26 · 70m
Talk Your Book: The Alternative to Alternatives 2026-08-24 · 31m Read →
The Best Bear Case on AI (EP. 478) 2026-08-19 · 72m
Talk Your Book: The Most Important Thing Nobody Owns 2026-08-17 · 28m
Depressed Day Traders (EP. 477) 2026-08-12 · 82m
Talk Your Book: Why Momentum Investing Works 2026-08-10 · 28m
When Genius Failed, Again (EP. 476) 2026-08-05 · 81m
45 Million Rich Households (EP. 475) 2026-07-29 · 67m
Talk Your Book: Is Crypto Dead? 2026-07-27 · 31m
Say Bubble One More Time. I Dare You! (EP. 474) 2026-07-22 · 78m
Talk Your Book: Private Credit’s Next Act 2026-07-20 · 33m
Will the Fed Buy Stocks? (EP.473) 2026-07-15 · 72m
Talk Your Book: Do We Need the Federal Reserve? 2026-07-13 · 35m
10 Reasons to be Bullish (EP. 472) 2026-07-08 · 72m
Talk Your Book: How SpaceX Got Into the Nasdaq 100 2026-07-06 · 28m
Is Debt Fueling the Rally? (EP. 471) 2026-07-01 · 73m
Talk Your Book: Investing in the Power Grid 2026-06-29 · 29m
Everything is Outperforming the S&P 500 This Year (EP. 470) 2026-06-24 · 60m
Talk Your Book: AI Is Not a Bubble 2026-06-22 · 30m
How Much is $1 Trillion? (EP. 469) 2026-06-17 · 69m
Talk Your Book: The Case for Investing in Emerging Market Bonds 2026-06-15 · 32m
The Teflon Economy (EP. 468) 2026-06-10 · 77m
Talk Your Book: Diversification in Private Assets 2026-06-08 · 28m
The Biggest Short Squeeze of All-Time (EP. 467) 2026-06-03 · 67m
Talk Your Book: Why Rising Rates Won't Hurt You Anymore 2026-06-01 · 32m
A Fire Alarm For Interest Rates (EP. 466) 2026-05-27 · 61m
Talk Your Book: Investing in the Rise of the Robots 2026-05-25 · 35m
The Fat Pitch For Bears (EP. 465) 2026-05-20 · 66m
Talk Your Book: Is the Nasdaq 100 in Another Bubble? 2026-05-18 · 30m
This Won't End Well (EP. 464) 2026-05-13 · 72m
Talk Your Book: Investing in Securitization 2026-05-11 · 31m
The Stock Market Is Doing Something We’ve Never Seen Before (EP. 463) 2026-05-06 · 66m
Talk Your Book: Animal Spirits Live with F/m Investments 2026-05-04 · 57m
Paycheck-To-Paycheck on $500,000? (EP. 462) 2026-04-29 · 64m
Talk Your Book: Consternation About Concentration 2026-04-27 · 41m
Investing Isn't Supposed to Be Fun 2026-04-22 · 60m
Talk Your Book: Juicing Your Returns 2026-04-20 · 32m
Everyone Back in the Boat (EP. 460) 2026-04-15 · 72m
Talk Your Book: The Biggest Active ETF 2026-04-13 · 30m
$1 Million is the Worst Amount of Money (EP. 459) 2026-04-08 · 64m
Talk Your Book: Income and Momentum 2026-04-06 · 38m
Home Buyer's Remorse (EP. 458) 2026-04-01 · 77m
Talk Your Book: Navigating Fixed Income in a Crazy World 2026-03-30 · 25m
The Best Stocks in History (EP. 457) 2026-03-25 · 78m
Talk Your Book: What's the Latest in Crypto? 2026-03-23 · 34m
The Perfect Price of Oil (EP. 456) 2026-03-18 · 79m
Talk Your Book: After-Tax Alpha 2026-03-16 · 33m
Will AI Displace Financial Advisors? (EP. 455) 2026-03-11 · 48m
Talk Your Book: What's Working in the Stock Market? 2026-03-09 · 40m
A Wave of Redemptions (EP. 454) 2026-03-04 · 77m
Talk Your Book: The Bull Market in Real Assets 2026-03-02 · 32m
Everyone Hates AI (EP. 453) 2026-02-25 · 78m
Talk Your Book: Investing in Next Gen Tech Stocks 2026-02-23 · 26m
Is AI a Mistake? (EP. 452) 2026-02-18 · 73m
Talk Your Book: Why Commodities Are Working 2026-02-16 · 36m
What Would You Do With $3 Million? (EP. 451) 2026-02-11 · 78m
Talk Your Book: The 3 A's of the U.S. Economy 2026-02-09 · 36m
Gold's 1987 Moment (EP. 450) 2026-02-04 · 83m
Talk Your Book: Investing in a Concentrated Stock Market 2026-02-02 · 32m
Hi-Yo Silver! (EP. 449) 2026-01-28 · 73m
Talk Your Book: How to Fix the Plumbing of the Financial System 2026-01-26 · 31m
Small Caps Are Back (EP. 448) 2026-01-21 · 64m
Talk Your Book: Structured Notes in an ETF 2026-01-19 · 29m
Is the Stock Market Invincible? (EP. 447) 2026-01-14 · 79m
Talk Your Book: The Bull Case for China With Brendan Ahern 2026-01-12 · 32m
Tax the Billionaires (EP. 446) 2026-01-07 · 76m
The Best Performing Stocks of 2025 (EP. 445) 2025-12-31 · 57m
Talk Your Book: Teucrium's Sal Gilbertie on Commodities & Crypto 2025-12-29 · 32m
The Biggest Risk in 2026 (EP. 444) 2025-12-24 · 67m
Talk Your Book: A Tactical Strategy That Actually Works 2025-12-22 · 34m
All-Time Highs Should Feel Better Than This 2025-12-17 · 79m
Talk Your Book: The Anti-AI Portfolio 2025-12-15 · 37m
Netflix vs. Paramount (EP. 442) 2025-12-10 · 68m
Talk Your Book: Investing in Real Estate Credit 2025-12-08 · 34m
The Age of Discontentment (EP. 441) 2025-12-03 · 72m
Talk Your Book: The Psychology of Income 2025-12-01 · 25m
Talk Your Book: The State of the Housing Market 2025-11-29 · 30m
Wait, Are We in a Recession??? (EP. 440) 2025-11-26 · 65m
Talk Your Book: Staking Your Crypto For Yield 2025-11-24 · 29m
Is the AI Trade Over? (EP. 439) 2025-11-19 · 74m
Talk Your Book: Will the Bubble Get Bigger? 2025-11-17 · 39m
Animal Spirits Take Las Vegas 2025-11-15 · 47m
Is a 50 Year Mortgage a Good Idea? (EP. 438) 2025-11-12 · 71m
Talk Your Book: Public & Private Opportunities in AI 2025-11-10 · 35m
Talk Your Book: The Two Biggest Stories of the Year: AI & Tariffs 2025-11-08 · 31m
Never Go All in on Stocks (EP. 437) 2025-11-05 · 75m
Talk Your Book: Emerging Markets Are Back 2025-11-03 · 33m
Talk Your Book: Money and Marriage 2025-11-01 · 35m
Never Pay Off Your Mortgage (EP. 436) 2025-10-29 · 75m
Talk Your Book: JP Morgan's Long-Term Capital Market Assumptions 2025-10-27 · 41m
Talk Your Book: How to Spend With Morgan Housel 2025-10-23 · 41m
The Zero Dollar Club (EP. 435) 2025-10-22 · 81m
Talk Your Book: Value + Momentum: The Best of Both Factors 2025-10-20 · 29m
Talk Your Book: Investing in Start-Up Equity 2025-10-18 · 38m
Did the Market Just Top? (EP. 434) 2025-10-15 · 71m
Talk Your Book: How Infrastructure Funds Work 2025-10-13 · 32m
It Feels Like 1999 (EP. 433) 2025-10-08 · 72m
Talk Your Book: Investing in Public and Private Credit 2025-10-06 · 35m
Why Retail is Outperforming (EP. 432) 2025-10-01 · 53m
Talk Your Book: Investing in the All Weather Strategy 2025-09-29 · 41m
A Mania Is Brewing (EP. 431) 2025-09-24 · 75m
Talk Your Book: Making Money When Stocks Are Up or Down 2025-09-22 · 32m
How Many People Make $100,000? (EP. 430) 2025-09-17 · 81m
Talk Your Book: Investing in Private Credit ETFs and All-Time Highs 2025-09-15 · 45m
Live from Future Proof 2025 (EP. 429) 2025-09-10 · 31m
Talk Your Book: How Custom Indexing Works 2025-09-08 · 33m
A National Housing Emergency (EP. 428) 2025-09-03 · 68m
Talk Your Book: How to Invest in Commodities 2025-09-01 · 36m
State of the American Investor (EP. 427) 2025-08-27 · 64m
Talk Your Book: Creating Monthly Income From Your Portfolio 2025-08-25 · 28m
Buy the Porsche (EP. 426) 2025-08-20 · 62m
Talk Your Book: How to Invest in Futures 2025-08-18 · 35m
Measuring the Wealth Effect (EP. 425) 2025-08-13 · 64m
Talk Your Book: The People's Index 2025-08-11 · 38m
Wall Street Strikes Back (EP. 424) 2025-08-06 · 66m
Talk Your Book: Finding Tax Alpha in Fixed Income 2025-08-04 · 32m
This Is the Dumb Money (EP. 423) 2025-07-30 · 63m
Talk Your Book: How to Hold the Biggest Winners 2025-07-28 · 36m
What is Upper Middle Class? (EP. 422) 2025-07-23 · 74m
Talk Your Book: How We Got a Bitcoin ETF 2025-07-21 · 36m
There Are Too Many Rich People (EP. 421) 2025-07-16 · 70m
Talk Your Book: Option Income Is So Hot Right Now 2025-07-14 · 30m
I Want To Be An Advisor, What Do I Do? 2025-07-12 · 30m
A 25 Year Bull Market (EP. 420) 2025-07-09 · 66m
Talk Your Book: Autocallable Income 2025-07-07 · 35m
Talk Your Book: How Public’s Winning the Great Wealth Transfer 2025-07-05 · 36m
The Top 10 Risks to the Stock Market (EP. 419) 2025-07-02 · 69m
Talk Your Book: What Even Is Infrastructure? 2025-06-30 · 34m
The Nothing Ever Happens Market (EP. 418) 2025-06-25 · 61m
Talk Your Book: Turning Capex Into Cashflow 2025-06-23 · 30m
We Have to Talk About Sports Betting (EP. 417) 2025-06-18 · 80m
Talk Your Book: Investing in High Yield Munis 2025-06-16 · 35m
A Bubble is Coming (EP. 416) 2025-06-11 · 73m
Talk Your Book: Where to Find Higher Dividend Yields 2025-06-09 · 31m
Talk Your Book: The Joneses Aren't That Happy 2025-06-07 · 34m
Will AI Take All Our Jobs? (EP.415) 2025-06-04 · 66m
Talk Your Book: Valuation Still Matters 2025-06-02 · 31m
Most Stocks Suck (EP.414) 2025-05-28 · 67m
Talk Your Book: Investing in Goldminers 2025-05-26 · 49m
Talk Your Book: The Nasdaq 100 of Crypto 2025-05-24 · 32m
Is Financial Education Working? (EP.413) 2025-05-21 · 62m
Winners and Losers From the Stock Market Rally (EP.412) 2025-05-14 · 66m
Talk Your Book: Will China Win the Trade War? 2025-05-12 · 33m
There Will Never Be Another Warren Buffett (EP.411) 2025-05-07 · 66m
Talk Your Book: The CLO Playbook 2025-05-05 · 38m
The Most Confusing Rally of All Time (EP.410) 2025-04-30 · 61m
Talk Your Book: Equal Weight Investing 2025-04-28 · 26m
Talk Your Book: Derek Thompson Feels Like He's Taking Crazy Pills 2025-04-26 · 34m
So Bearish It's Bullish (EP.409) 2025-04-23 · 63m
Talk Your Book: Interest Rates Go Kablooey 2025-04-21 · 46m
Talk Your Book: How Not To Invest Like Buffett 2025-04-19 · 60m
The Dollar Dump (EP.408) 2025-04-16 · 64m
Talk Your Book: Elevator Growth in Mid Caps 2025-04-14 · 39m
The Stock Market Crashed. Now What? (EP.407) 2025-04-09 · 73m
Talk Your Book: International Stocks, So Hot Right Now 2025-04-07 · 31m
Ben's Bearish (EP.406) 2025-04-02 · 61m
Talk Your Book: Floating Rate Income 2025-03-31 · 37m
Did Trump Blink? (EP. 405) 2025-03-26 · 68m
Talk Your Book: A Better Money Market Fund 2025-03-24 · 32m
Talk Your Book: How to be a Supercommunicator with Charles Duhigg 2025-03-22 · 40m
Live From Miami (EP.404) 2025-03-19 · 37m
Talk Your Book: How Private Credit Works 2025-03-17 · 34m
The Tariff Tantrum (EP.403) 2025-03-12 · 64m
Talk Your Book: A Better 60/40 Portfolio 2025-03-10 · 37m
Is a Recession Coming? (EP.402) 2025-03-05 · 60m
Talk Your Book: Custom Portfolio Protection 2025-03-03 · 35m
Time to Get Bearish? (EP.401) 2025-02-26 · 53m
Talk Your Book: State of The Real Estate Market 2025-02-24 · 37m
Life and Death (EP.400) 2025-02-19 · 57m
Talk Your Book: A Short History of the Nasdaq 100 2025-02-17 · 31m
Is $1 Million a Lot of Money? (EP.399) 2025-02-12 · 69m
Talk Your Book: How to Eliminate Negative Alpha 2025-02-10 · 38m
The Dumbest Trade War (EP.398) 2025-02-05 · 60m
Talk Your Book: Bitcoin for Anyone 2025-02-03 · 34m
Your Budget Sucks (EP.397) 2025-01-29 · 61m
Talk Your Book: The Private Credit Opportunity Set 2025-01-27 · 32m
Trump Coin (EP.396) 2025-01-22 · 58m
Talk Your Book: 3 Reasons to Buy Bonds 2025-01-20 · 32m
A Key Market Signal (EP.395) 2025-01-15 · 61m
Talk Your Book: Moneyball Meets Private Equity 2025-01-13 · 31m
Predictions For 2025 (EP.394) 2025-01-08 · 69m
Talk Your Book: Direct to Consumer Venture Capital 2025-01-06 · 42m
It Was a Very Good Year (EP.393) 2025-01-01 · 59m
Talk Your Book: Conviction in Growth Investing 2024-12-30 · 29m
Talk Your Book: The Economy is not the Stock Market with David Rosenberg 2024-12-29 · 55m
All In on US Stocks (EP.392) 2024-12-25 · 64m
Talk Your Book: Looking for the Next NVDA 2024-12-23 · 42m
Eff You Money (EP.391) 2024-12-18 · 75m
Talk Your Book: Buy Low, Sell High in China 2024-12-16 · 34m
The Bears Capitulate (EP.390) 2024-12-11 · 70m
Talk Your Book: Matching Longs with Shorts 2024-12-09 · 29m
The Mother of All Bubbles (EP.389) 2024-12-04 · 68m
Talk Your Book: J.P. Morgan's Guide to ETFs 2024-12-02 · 35m
The Leverage Mania (EP.388) 2024-11-27 · 65m
Talk Your Book: Animal Spirits Live 2024-11-25 · 33m
Everybody in the Pool (EP.387) 2024-11-20 · 71m
Talk Your Book: Investors Love Cash Flow 2024-11-18 · 29m
The Bitcoiners Won (EP.386) 2024-11-13 · 54m
Talk Your Book: Infrastructure Investing 2024-11-11 · 41m
A Once in a Lifetime Investment Opportunity (EP.385) 2024-11-06 · 74m
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