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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: Public & Private Opportunities in AI

2025-11-10 20:15:20

Today’s Talk Your Book is brought to you by KraneShares: See here for more information on KraneShares and AGIX On today’s show, we discuss: How the collaboration between KraneShares and ETNA Capital bridges institutional ETF experience with deep, AI-native insight The importance of private and international names to AGIX’s strategy The role of hardware, infrastructure, and application in AI’s g...

Ben Graham & Bull Market Brains

2025-11-09 23:20:14

Bull markets make you feel smarter than you really are. Bear markets make you feel dumber than you really are. It’s almost impossible to avoid feeling like a know-it-all when things are going up and a know-nothing when things are going down. That’s human nature. Benjamin Graham started his investment partnership in the Roaring 20s with $400,000 of money from clients and his own capital. In just three years he ...

Are Young People Screwed?

2025-11-08 05:30:33

I don’t make a lot of predictions but here are two I have about the next 10 years or so: (1) Wealth inequality is going to get worse. (2) There is going to be a huge generational divide that opens up because of this. Baby boomers are the biggest, wealthiest generation we’ve ever seen. If you include the Silent Generation, older Americans hold nearly two-thirds of the wealth in this country. Gen X has one quar...

Is Now the Time to Go All-In on Tech Stocks?

2025-11-07 02:48:45

We also tackled questions about when to pay off your mortgage early, using cash in your fixed income allocation and the difference between the buyside and the sellside. Further Reading: The Melt-Up 1The other one is Berkshire Hathaway. 2This one was Michael’s idea with some help from Chart Kid Matt on the execution. The post Is Now the Time to Go All-In on Tech Stocks? appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...

Animal Spirits: Never Go All in on Stocks

2025-11-05 20:15:51

Today’s Animal Spirits is brought to you by Ycharts and Vanguard: This episode is sponsored by YCharts. Download YCharts’ Great Wealth Transfer Deck free at: https://go.ycharts.com/winning-the-next-generation-of-wealth?utm_source=Animal_Spirits&utm_medium=Original_Research&utm_campaign=Great_Wealth_Transfer&utm_content=Podcast This episode is sponsored by Vanguard. Learn more at: https://www.vangua...

The Greatest Bull Market No One Ever Talks About

2025-11-05 07:48:14

In my last post I wrote about the history of melt-ups in the stock market. This chart tells the story. Each of these melt-ups led to a meltdown. You’ll notice there’s a rather large gap between the 1930s and 1980s. Were there no face-rippers in this time frame? I thought about adding the Nifty Fifty stocks in the early-1970s but there wasn’t an index or fund for these one-decision stocks back then so th...