Episodes

Join Downtown Josh Brown (CEO, Ritholtz Wealth Management) and Michael Batnick (Managing Partner, Ritholtz Wealth Management) for another episode of What Are Your Thoughts and see what they have to say about the biggest topic...

On episode 98 of The Compound and Friends, Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown are joined by Mark Newton to discuss market sentiment, buying the dip, the DeMARK Indicator, fundamental vs technical analysis, industrials, c...

On episode 97 of The Compound and Friends, Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown are joined by Ted Seides and Shana Sissel to discuss the FOMC meeting, how investors are using alternatives these days, the venture capital ma...

On episode 96 of The Compound and Friends, Jill Schlesinger joins Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown to discuss whether or not the bear market is over, the chances of Jamie Dimon running for president, Apple’s WWDC produ...

On this special episode of Live from The Compound, Scott Patterson, Financial Journalist and Wall Street Journal Reporter, joins Michael Batnick and Josh Brown to discuss Scott's new book, Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders...

On TCAF 95 Cathie Wood joins Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown to discuss investing in innovation, AI fact vs fiction, how big Tesla can get, why Ark bought Nvidia in 2014, Zoom vs Google Meet vs Microsoft Teams, and mu...

On episode 94 of The Compound and Friends, Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown are joined by Dror Poleg to discuss Nvidia's ascent, the AI explosion, the future of work, and much more! Thanks to Public for sponsoring this...

On episode 93 of The Compound and Friends, Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown are joined by Chris Davis and Morgan Housel to discuss the big wave of AI coming, the most important chart in the stock market, SVB insiders f...

On episode 92 of The Compound and Friends, Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown are joined by Dion Rabouin to discuss inflation, the Fed, the labor market, Robinhood earnings, the advent of 24/7 trading, and much more! Tha...

On this special episode of Live from The Compound, Ben Smith, journalist and co-founder of Semafor, joins Michael Batnick and Josh Brown to discuss Ben's new book, Traffic, his new media entity Semafor, and much more! Ben Smi...

On episode 91 of The Compound and Friends, Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown are joined by Ian Dunlap and Leanna Haakons to discuss regional banks, the importance of Apple's earnings, how AI is changing the labor market...

On this special episode of The Compound and Friends, Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown are joined by DK Metcalf and Joe McLean to discuss how professional athletes manage their money, building a brand off the field, tha...

On episode 90 of The Compound and Friends, Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown are joined by Brian Shannon to discuss Volume-Weighted Average Price (VWAP), trading strategies, technical analysis, tech earnings, and much m...

On episode 89 of The Compound and Friends, Michael Batnick , Downtown Josh Brown , and Ben Carlson are joined by Ric Edelman to discuss regulators vs Bitcoin, advice for financial advisors looking to get in the content game, ...

On episode 88 of The Compound and Friends, Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown are joined by Liz Young to discuss building a career in finance, cooling inflation, the stages of a recession, whether the VIX still matters, ...

On episode 87 of The Compound and Friends, Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown are joined by Tony Dwyer to discuss how long an inverted yield curve can last, the unemployment rate and recession, bank lending standards, th...

On episode 86 of The Compound and Friends, Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown are joined by Jurrien Timmer to discuss what's going on with banks, what's changed since Jurrien's 2022 TCAF appearance, the Fed and the marke...

On episode 85 of The Compound and Friends, Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown are joined by Jill Schlesinger to discuss the Fed decision aftermath, unlimited FDIC insurance for banks, the SEC's crypto crackdown, banning ...

On this special episode of Live from The Compound, Jesse Eisinger (senior editor and reporter at ProPublica) joins Michael Batnick and Josh Brown to discuss UBS acquiring Credit Suisse, ProPublica’s new insider trading expose...

On episode 84 of The Compound and Friends, Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown are joined by Dan McMurtrie to discuss Credit Suisse, Silicon Valley Bank, treasury yields, short sellers, credit default swaps, the real reas...

On this special episode of Live from The Compound, Samir Kaji (CEO and co-founder of Allocate) joins Michael Batnick and Josh Brown to discuss the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and the impact it could have on the banking sy...

On episode 83 of The Compound and Friends, Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown are joined by Carleton English and Joe Fahmy to discuss moving averages, rate hikes, consumer spending, what Cathie Wood got right (and wrong)...

On episode 82 of The Compound and Friends, Nick Maggiulli and Downtown Josh Brown are joined by Dan Nathan to discuss earnings season, yields, mortgage rates, Buffett and buybacks, shorting private equity, world stock markets...

On episode 81 of The Compound and Friends, Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown are joined by Jay Woods and Dan Russo to discuss the New York Stock Exchange, technical analysis, the Dow Jones Transportation Average, Bitcoi...