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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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Talk Your Book: Consternation About Concentration

2026-04-27 19:15:39

Today’s Talk Your Book is brought to you by State Street: To learn more about State Street Investment Management click here: statestreet.com/IM On today’s show, we discuss: The rapid growth of the ETF industry and where the new money is coming from The rotation away from Mag-7 toward small caps, industrials, and international and what structural forces are driving it Why the AI capex cycle is starting to ...

An All-Time Bull Market

2026-04-26 21:45:41

A lot of crazy stuff has happened this decade. The pandemic of course: Which caused oil prices to go negative (I still can’t quite believe this happened even though it makes sense given the circumstances): The trillions of dollars in government spending combined with a supply chain shock led to 9% inflation, the highest levels in four decades: Which caused the Fed to raise rates from 0% to 5% in no time: The sto...

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...