Animal Spirits Podcast
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/
Recent Episodes
Aug. 13, 2025
Measuring the Wealth Effect (EP. 425)
On episode 425 of Animal Spirits, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson discuss 1990s nostalgia, the growing importance of the stock market on the economy, the Nifty Fifty vs. the Mag 7, ...
Aug. 11, 2025
Talk Your Book: The People's Index
On this episode of Animal Spirits: Talk Your Book, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson are joined by Matt Bartolini, Managing Director at State Street Investment Management ...
Aug. 6, 2025
Wall Street Strikes Back (EP. 424)
On episode 424 of Animal Spirits, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson discuss: how AI bailed out the stock market and economy, a history of capex bubbles, the Carvana comeback, investo...
Aug. 4, 2025
Talk Your Book: Finding Tax Alpha in Fixed Income
On this episode of Animal Spirits: Talk Your Book, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson are joined by Alex Morris of F/m Investments to discuss their new Compoundr ETF Se...
July 30, 2025
This Is the Dumb Money (EP. 423)
On episode 423 of Animal Spirits, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson discuss an AI bubble floor under the market, when to sell NVDA, strategies that don't work anymore, how the housing mar...
July 28, 2025
Talk Your Book: How to Hold the Biggest Winners
On this episode of Animal Spirits: Talk Your Book, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson are joined by Bill Mann, Chief Investment Strategist at Motley Fool Asset Management to di...
July 23, 2025
What is Upper Middle Class? (EP. 422)
On episode 422 of Animal Spirits, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson discuss: why stock market returns can't be 15% per year forever, putting the Mag 7 into context, small caps are cheap, ...
July 21, 2025
Talk Your Book: How We Got a Bitcoin ETF
On this episode of Animal Spirits: Talk Your Book, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson are joined by Dave LaValle, Senior Managing Director, Global Head of ETFs at Grayscale Investm...
July 16, 2025
There Are Too Many Rich People (EP. 421)
On episode 421 of Animal Spirits, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson discuss a nervous stock market rally, U.S. corporate exceptionalism, how the stock market bottoms, the worst decade ever fo...
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