Episodes

On today's show, we had David Mazza, Head of Product at Direxion to talk about the use cases and risks of investing in single stock, leveraged, and inverse ETFs Find complete shownotes on our blogs...  Ben Carlson’s   Michael Batnick’s...

On today's Talk Your Book, we spoke to Russell Feldman from IMTC on innovating the fixed income investment process, differences between trading stocks vs. bonds, risk management within fixed income, and much more.   Find complete shownotes on our...

On today's show we discuss Jeremy Grantham's super bubble call, how "don't fight the Fed" has evolved, why all opinions are extreme today, how the bottom 50% are making the biggest financial progress, how the Fed screwed up the housing market and much...

On today's show, we spoke with Jason Barsema about the ins and outs of structured notes, how downside protection works, when it makes sense to use structured notes, and much more.   Find complete shownotes on our blogs...  Ben Carlson’s...

On today's who we discuss the pros and cons of student loan forgiveness, why the Fed has the ability to talk tough about inflation (for now), the difference between being bearish and being realistic, record high corporate profits, why we're never...

On today's show, we spoke with Brendan Ahern to give us an update on China, Chinese stock listing issues, investing in China's largest companies, and much more.   Find complete shownotes on our blogs...  Ben Carlson’s   Michael...

On this week's show we discuss the ever-changing narratives in the stock market and economy, iron-clad rules of investing, why markets are so confusing right now, a wider bid-ask spread in the housing market, crypto's LTCM moment and much more. ...

On this week’s show, we discuss Ben’s trip to Long Island, some good news on inflation, Disney’s sky-high inflation, confusing signals in the economy, and much more.   Find complete shownotes on our blogs...  Ben Carlson’s  ...

On this weeks show we discuss the stock market's ability to predict a recession, the hot labor market, wages vs. inflation, the prospect for a soft landing in the economy, Robinhood vs. Coinbase, volatility in the mortgage market, a bunch of movie...

On today's Talk Your Book we spoke with Composer founder Ben Rollert about creating your own automated investment strategies.   Find complete shownotes on our blogs...  Ben Carlson’s   Michael Batnick’s   Like us on   And...

On today's show we discuss the recession debate, why the economy is so confusing right now, calling a stock market bottom (or not), the tech stock comeback, earnings season and much more. Find complete shownotes on our blogs...  Ben Carlson’s...

On today's show we answer questions straight from the listeners with some help from Rocket Dollar's Henry Yoshida.   Find complete shownotes on our blogs...  Ben Carlson’s   Michael Batnick’s   Like us on   And feel free...

On today's show, we get an update on crypto from Meow CEO Brandon Arvanaghi and take a look at what happened with the recent crypto meltdowns.   Find complete shownotes on our blogs...  Ben Carlson’s   Michael Batnick’s   Like...

On today's show we discuss why the middle class is getting squeezed, why it's so hard to define what a recession is, boring stocks are outperforming, the size of the housing market, why negotiating will be making a comeback, spending time alone and...

On today's show we discuss peaking inflation, confused banks, whys stocks are the best inflation hedge, and much more.   Find complete shownotes on our blogs...  Ben Carlson’s   Michael Batnick’s   Like us on   And feel...

On today's show we discuss stocks for the long run, Elon's Twitter debacle, the labor market vs. inflation, the number of cycles we've experienced since the pandemic, peak inflation and much more.   Find complete shownotes on our blogs... ...

On today's Talk Your Book, we spoke with Sal Gilbertie from Teucrium about the state of agricultural commodities. Find complete shownotes on our blogs...  Ben Carlson’s   Michael Batnick’s   Like us on   And feel free to shoot...

On today's show, we discuss similarities between the late 90s and today, how tough it is to get VC exposure, current market dynamics within the private markets, and much more.   Find complete shownotes on our blogs...  Ben Carlson’s  ...

On today's show we talk about why the first 6 months of the year were one of the worst ever for financial markets, why it's so difficult to gauge the economy right now, what's priced into the stock market, the worst earnings call ever, the psychology...

On today's Talk Your Book, we spoke with Michael Grant from Calamos Investments about the Fed, the economy and managing a long/short fund in this environment   Find complete shownotes on our blogs...  Ben Carlson’s   Michael...

On today's show we discuss stock market return expectations, the sell-off in commodities, the back and forth on recession predictions, fighting the last war on the economy, why crypto crashed so bad, negotiating your cable bill down and much more....

On today's Talk Your Book, we spoke with Bob Long of Conversus about giving financial advisors access to investments in private markets.   Find complete shownotes on our blogs...  Ben Carlson’s   Michael Batnick’s   Like us on...

On today's show we discuss how wild and crazy the past 3 years have been in the markets, why the Fed is in such a precarious position, the number of stocks getting hammered, the Warren Buffett of crypto, the most re-watchable movie of all-time and...

On this week's show we discuss the current market sentiment, the official bear market in U.S. stocks, why the Fed is making a mistake, the insane move higher in interest rates, the crypto winter and more.   Find complete shownotes on our...