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 disclosures here - https://ritholtzwealth.com/podcast-youtube-disclosures/
687 episodes transcribedWe discuss fairness in the bailout process, why no one believes in this market, why it's been so difficult to outperform the market during this bear,...
We discuss the path to normalcy, why the economy is going to be operating at partial capacity for some time, when people will begin flying again, why...
On this week's show we discuss the pandemic's impact on Disney, when people will be willing to go to large events in the future, private equity compan...
We discuss the latest unemployment numbers, the massive help coming from the Fed, why markets are so confusing at the moment, a new theory on forward...
On this week's show we discuss some good news out of NYC, can this ever be over until we have a vaccine, why this is more like a war than a financial...
We discuss the enormous effort from the science community to find a vaccine, using history as a guide even when every bear market is different, a wild...
On this week's show we discuss avoiding politics during a crisis, unintended consequences from the shutdown, the spike in national debt, why economics...
On this new episode we discuss the awful unemployment numbers, the new fiscal stimulus bill, restaurants in trouble, other businesses impacted, what h...
On this week's show we discuss hindsight bias when the crisis is over, impressive measures by other countries, turmoil in the bond markets, will we ge...
On today's episode, we discuss the number of businesses impacted by the coronavirus shutdown, the potential fiscal stimulus plan, why interest rates a...
On this week's show we discuss working from home, the enormous impact the coronavirus is having on the economy, how people's lives are changing in a h...
On today's show we speak with Dave Mazza, head of product at Direxion about trading levered ETFs, and other products they're working on. Find complet...
On today's emergency edition of Animal Spirits, we discuss the severe disruption being caused by the coronavirus, why it's ok to overreact but not pan...
On this week's episode we talk about the carnage in the stock market, the huge drop in oil prices, going from the fear of missing out to the fear of b...
On this week's business movie re-watch, we discuss The Founder, the Michael Keaton movie from 2016 about Ray Kroc and how he built McDonald's into an...
On this week's show we discuss the wild moves in the stock market, the emergency rate cut by the Fed, the chances the coronavirus leads to a recession...
On this week's Talk Your Book Michael and Ben talk all things commodities with Yale's Geert Rouwenhorst and John Love from USCF Investments. Find com...
On this week's episode, we discuss the impact of the coronavirus, ramifications of the asset management mergers because of commission-free trading, wh...
On this week's show we discuss the wealth inequality problem, how to get more people invested in financial assets, who gets hit the hardest during the...
On this edition of a Random Watch Down Wall Street we re-visited Margin Call, the 2011 fictional movie about the 2008 financial crisis from the perspe...
