Animal Spirits: This is the Dumb Money
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Animal Spirits: This is the Dumb Money
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Nothing Works All the Time
Nothing Works All the Time
I was at an institutional investor conference back in 2011. The stock market had recovered...
The Best Leading Indicator of Wealth
The Best Leading Indicator of Wealth
If you could have just one piece of information on somebody to predict their future wealth,...
Talk Your Book: How to Hold the Biggest Winners
Talk Your Book: How to Hold the Biggest Winners
Posted July 28, 2025 by Ben Carlson Today’s Talk Your Book is brought to you by Motley Fool...
Housing Market Nobility – A Wealth of Common Sense
Housing Market Nobility – A Wealth of Common Sense
Right or wrong, our economic system invariably creates haves and have-nots. It’s a feature not...
Why Can’t the Stock Market Grow at 15% Forever?
Why Can’t the Stock Market Grow at 15% Forever?
Here’s a question we got in the Animal Spirits inbox this week: They always say the stock...
The Best Time to Invest
The Best Time to Invest
A reader asks: Is it a good thing or bad thing if someone started investing in that lost...
Animal Spirits: What is Upper Middle Class?
Animal Spirits: What is Upper Middle Class?
Posted July 23, 2025 by Ben Carlson Today’s Animal Spirits is brought to you by Vanguard and...
The Ovarian Lottery – A Wealth of Common Sense
The Ovarian Lottery – A Wealth of Common Sense
At the Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting in 1997, Warren Buffett laid out the following...
The Wealth Ladder (Out Now!)
The Wealth Ladder (Out Now!)
Imagine going to the doctor and getting the exact same treatment as the person who came before...
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Animal Spirits: This is the Dumb Money
This episode is sponsored by Vanguard. Learn more at: https://vgi.vg/3GbOsYM Register here for an Exhibit A live tour On today’s show, we discuss: Listen here: Charts: Recommendations: Tweets/Bluesky: If @WSJ reporters actually covered the markets, they'd know why...
You Should Love The 529 Plan More After OBBBA Passed
As soon as both my children were born in 2017 and 2019, I superfunded their 529 plans equal to the five-year gift tax exemption. At the time, I was thrilled to do it given a parent's number one responsibility is to provide for their children. Finally, a tax-efficient...