Episodes
Sept. 10, 2025
Live from Future Proof 2025 (EP. 429)
On episode 429 of Animal Spirits, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson discuss: how to build a successful RIA, the flywheel effect, using "there he is" as a greeting, and more. L...
Sept. 8, 2025
Talk Your Book: How Custom Indexing Works
On this episode of Animal Spirits: Talk Your Book, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson are joined by Ehren J. Stanhope, CFA, Principal, Chief Investment Stra...
Sept. 3, 2025
A National Housing Emergency (EP. 428)
On episode 428 of Animal Spirits, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson discuss rich people everywhere, why this isn't like the dot-com bubble, the markets don't care about bad v...
Sept. 1, 2025
Talk Your Book: How to Invest in Commodities
On this episode of Animal Spirits: Talk Your Book, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson are joined by Don Casturo, CIO at Quantix Commodities LP and Kristof Gleic...
Aug. 27, 2025
State of the American Investor (EP. 427)
On episode 427 of Animal Spirits, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson discuss what happens to the stock market after Fed rate cuts, is this 1996 or 1999, why value stocks need a rec...
Aug. 25, 2025
Talk Your Book: Creating Monthly Income From Your Portfolio
On this episode of Animal Spirits: Talk Your Book, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson are joined by John Burrello, Senior Portfolio Manager at Invesco to discuss: t...
Aug. 20, 2025
Buy the Porsche (EP. 426)
On episode 426 of Animal Spirits, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson discuss why the stock market is getting boring, S&P 493 vs. the Mag 7, are small caps dead, it's tough being a cont...
Aug. 18, 2025
Talk Your Book: How to Invest in Futures
On this episode of Animal Spirits: Talk Your Book, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson are joined by Craig Bewick, Head of Retail Education for the CME Group to discuss:...
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...
July 14, 2025
Talk Your Book: Option Income Is So Hot Right Now
On this episode of Animal Spirits: Talk Your Book, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson are joined by Garrett Paolella, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of NEOS Investments to discuss los...
July 12, 2025
I Want To Be An Advisor, What Do I Do?
On this special episode of Animal Spirits at the Morningstar Investment Conference in Chicago, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson discuss best practices on starting a career in the modern world of fin...
July 9, 2025
A 25 Year Bull Market (EP. 420)
On episode 420 of Animal Spirits, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson discuss faster recoveries in the stock market, the potential for an even longer bull market, pros and cons of deregulation, zoo...
July 7, 2025
Talk Your Book: Autocallable Income
On this episode of Animal Spirits: Talk Your Book, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson are joined by Matt Kaufman, Senior Vice President and Head of ETFs at Calamos to discuss the Calamos A...
July 5, 2025
Talk Your Book: How Public’s Winning the Great Wealth Transfer
On this episode of Animal Spirits: Talk Your Book, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson are joined by Leif Abraham, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Public to discuss updates in fintech, the brokera...
July 2, 2025
The Top 10 Risks to the Stock Market (EP. 419)
On episode 419 of Animal Spirits, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson discuss recession hypotheticals, all-time highs in the stock market, the death of the permabear, international outperformance, a cr...
June 30, 2025
Talk Your Book: What Even Is Infrastructure?
On this episode of Animal Spirits: Talk Your Book, Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson are joined by Scott Litman, Portfolio Manager at GCM Grosvenor to discuss types of infrastructure investme...