Join Downtown Josh Brown and Michael Batnick for another round of What Are Your Thoughts and see what they have to say about the biggest topics in investing and finance, including:

►00:00 - Intro
►02:00 - Q3 Earnings Season - Let the "relative" disappointments begin!
►10:58 - No Love For the Bull - It took a 102% gain (from the March 2020 low) for investors to buy equity funds & ETFs.
►14:32 - Fake It 'Til You Make It - "Sometimes the line between vision and alleged fraud is getting your next round of capital."
►21:49 - Stop the F***ing Ride - There's a company that wants you to spend real money buying fake shares of real startups LOL.
►25:55 - Hester Peirce - To what extent does investor protection inhibit investment success?
►30:55 - Cash Flows Are Sexy Part II - The last time the Consumer Staples sector fell below 6% of the S&P 500 was, um, early 2000.
►36:01 - Too Much Overlap - A viewer asks if they have too much overlap in their portfolio of ETFs.
►39:26 - Eliminate the Debt - With rates so low, why would someone worry about paying down their debts right now?

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