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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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Is This a Bubble?

2026-05-17 21:45:15

This past week I wrote about a possible melt up in the Nasdaq 100. This chart is a good summary of that post: The logical follow-up question (which many people asked) is this: Is this a bubble? The Roaring 20s were a bubble. The 1950s weren’t a bubble. Japan was a bubble. The dot-com boom was a bubble. This can be a difficult question to answer because everyone knows when we’re in a financial crisis but peopl...

The 4 Abilities Every Investor Needs to be Successful

2026-05-16 04:30:47

In The Investor’s Manifesto, William Bernstein lays out the four abilities every investor needs to be successful: First they must possess an interest in the process. It is no different from carpentry, gardening, or parenting. If money management is not enjoyable, then a lousy job inevitably results, and, unfortunately, most people enjoy finance about as much as they do root canal work. Second, investors need more t...

50 Years of Stock Market Returns

2026-05-15 08:28:26

Bill Sweet joined us on the show again this week to tackle questions about why stocks are up, how consumption taxes work, foreign tax credits, how to save for college, retirement planning for small business owners and how to sell low cost basis stocks. Further Reading: 31 Years of Stock Market Returns The post 50 Years of Stock Market Returns appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...

Animal Spirits: This Won’t End Well

2026-05-13 19:15:47

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My New Book: Risk & Reward

2026-05-12 20:30:28

Here are 7 of the biggest risks from the past 100 years or so of financial markets: 1. Following the Roaring 20s the U.S. stock market peaked in September 1929. Over the next three years or so the stock market would fall 86%. A $1 million portfolio would have turned into $140,000. 2. The 1970s inflation was absolutely brutal for households and investors alike. The inflation rate averaged nearly 8% per year that decade, wh...

Talk Your Book: Investing in Securitization

2026-05-11 19:15:53

Today’s Talk Your Book is brought to you by Janus Henderson Investors: To learn more about Janus Henderson Investors click here: https://www.janushenderson.com/ On today’s show, we discuss: Why AAA CLOs have never experienced a default in the history of the asset class, through 2008, 2020, and 2022 How the waterfall structure and overcollateralization in CLOs provide a built-in layer of credit protection ...