Episodes

Oct. 3, 2022

Talk Your Book: Investing in Science Fiction

On today's show, we are joined by Kevin Kelly, CEO and Founder of Kelly Intelligence to discuss what CRISPR technology is, use cases, and investing in the future of Healthcare 2.0. Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s...

Sept. 28, 2022

Powell Wants You to Lose Your Job (EP.276)

On today's show we discuss is the Fed making a huge mistake, why it's so difficult to predict the economy, why it's so easy to be bearish right now, breaking the housing market, why we've turned on Jerome Powell, the bullish case for a 60/40 portfolio...

Sept. 26, 2022

Talk Your Book: I Need To Do Some Hedging Trades

On today's show, we spoke with Eric Metz, President and CIO of SpiderRock Advisors about tax-loss harvesting, replicating exchange funds, and de-concentrating portfolios using managed option strategies. Find complete shownotes on our...

Sept. 21, 2022

Is a Recession Bullish? (EP.275)

On today's episode we recap our experience at Future Proof, interest rates vs. inflation for the stock market, a blow-off top in short-term rates, what could cause international stocks to outperform, housing inflation, why the housing market is...

Sept. 19, 2022

Talk Your Book: Portfolio Premortem

On today's show, we spoke to Fabric Risk Co-Founder, Rick Bookstaber about identifying risks for advisors, lifestyle characteristics and risks, the MSCI factor model, scenario testing, and much more. Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben...

Sept. 14, 2022

Live From Future Proof (EP.274)

On today's show, we discuss the worst first 8 months ever, the illiquidity premium, Q2 earnings, The Robinhood Investor Index, and much more! Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s Michael Batnick’s Like...

Sept. 12, 2022

Talk Your Book: Single Stock ETFs

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...

Sept. 9, 2022

Talk Your Book: Fixing Fixed Income

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...

Sept. 7, 2022

The Super Bubble (EP.273)

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...

Sept. 5, 2022

Talk Your Book: Interest Rates and Volatility

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...

Aug. 31, 2022

Why So Bearish? (EP.272)

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...

Aug. 29, 2022

Talk Your Book: Investing in China

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...

Aug. 24, 2022

Price Drives Narrative (EP.271)

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. ...

Aug. 17, 2022

The Animal Spirits Indicator (EP.270)

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 ...

Aug. 10, 2022

Soft Landing (EP.269)

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...

Aug. 8, 2022

Talk Your Book: Choose Your Own Investments

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...

Aug. 3, 2022

Invest in What You Know (EP.268)

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...

Aug. 1, 2022

Listener Mailbag

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...

July 30, 2022

Looking Back at the Crypto Meltdown

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...

July 27, 2022

Redefining a Recession (EP.267)

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...

July 20, 2022