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A Wealth of Common Sense. Investor, author, and host of Animal Spirits podcast, focuses on simplifying finance for everyone; has backed over 200 companies.
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The One Wish Willow Economy

2026-08-08 04:30:51

Obsession is one of the best movies of the decade. It’s also one of the best stories in recent film history. Writer-director Curry Barker is 26 years old. The budget for the movie was just $750k. It’s made almost $500 million in worldwide box office. I love that fact that a low-budget indie flick can feel so high quality. I love a great movie with a bunch of relatively unknown actors who feel like they’...

Investing is a Game of Survival

2026-08-07 01:38:26

We also discussed questions about financial advice for people in their 20s, how to deal with the threat of AI in your career, the pros and cons of buying a home and what to do when you get off the grid for good. Further Reading: Leverage in the Stock Market The post Investing is a Game of Survival appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...

Animal Spirits: When Genius Failed, Again

2026-08-05 19:15:28

Today’s Animal Spirits is brought to you by YCharts: This episode is sponsored by YCharts. To get your copy of Top 10 Visuals, and receive 20% off your first YCharts Professional subscription through Animal Spirits. Visit https://go.ycharts.com/animal-spirits (Offer valid for new customers only.) On today’s show, we discuss: A Bull Market in Nostalgia His Wedding Guests Were Arriving–Just as...

Spending Money

2026-08-05 02:29:15

Our kids were at camp last week so my wife and I took a last minute trip to Chicago. We stayed at a nice hotel, walked around the city, did some shopping, ate some nice meals and consumed a few drinks. It was a nice time. After dinner we took a stroll on the river walk. It was a Tuesday night. All the bars and restaurants were full of people. They were eating, drinking, smiling and spending money on $19 cocktails. I made ...

The Biggest Risk of Rising Bond Yields

2026-08-03 04:59:27

Long-term government bond yields are on the rise yet again: On the one hand, 30 year Treasury yields are now the highest they have been since 2007, right before the onset of the Great Financial Crisis. Long bonds yielded around 1% in at the Covid crash nadir so they’ve come up a lot this decade. On the other hand, the average yield in the past 50 years is 6.2%. From 1977 through the summer of 2001, yields on long b...

Why I Love the Stock Market

2026-08-01 10:28:53

I love the stock market for a plethora of reasons. It’s the greatest wealth-building machine ever created. It allows you to earn a piece of the profits in the growth and ingenuity of the biggest and best corporations. Plus the stock market is like a laboratory for human psychology and emotions. Sometimes it makes sense. Sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes it goes insane…because people are insane! The stock m...