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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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Don’t Fight the Stock Market

2026-04-25 04:30:14

A lot of people were surprised the stock market didn’t fall further given the geopolitical situation. A war in the Middle East. Oil prices spiked 60% in a hurry. The energy market supply-demand dynamics might be screwed up for a while. Gas prices quickly shot up to over $4 a gallon. Why did we see such an orderly sell-off in the stock market? Why was the S&P 500 only down 9% from the highs? Why didn’t we s...

How Do You Retire at 55?

2026-04-23 21:30:27

Jonathan Novy joined us on the show this week to cover questions about life insurance, variable universal life insurance policies, how to get your adult kids to save money and how to spend down your college savings. Further Reading: The 4 Year Rule For Retirement Spending The post How Do You Retire at 55? appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...

Animal Spirits: Investing Isn’t Supposed to be Fun

2026-04-23 00:00:06

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Tax Alpha

2026-04-22 23:39:59

The way I see it there have been two big shifts in the past 20-30 years in the wealth management space. One, financial advisors went from selling products to offering holistic, goals-based financial advice. And two, most advisors gave up on the idea of seeking alpha as a way to provide value to clients. This isn’t the entire industry. There are still products being sold. People are still looking to outperform the ma...

Talk Your Book: Juicing Your Returns

2026-04-20 19:15:34

Today’s Talk Your Book is brought to you by Calamos: To learn more about, amplified, long-term wealth accumulation visit: www.calamos.com/CAGE On today’s show, we discuss: Bringing structured product strategies into the ETF wrapper and the four lenses Calamos uses to evaluate new products How autocallable income ETFs work, and the difference between income and growth versions The memory feature in CAGE and...

New All-Time Highs

2026-04-20 01:01:08

I still vividly remember hitting all-time highs again for the first time following the 2008 crash. The stock market peaked in October of 2007 before careening into the Great Financial Crisis. Those were scary times. Those highs weren’t breached again until the spring of 2013. When it finally happened, many investors worried those new highs would be fleeting. How could you blame them? The aughts were bookended by tw...