All In on U.S. Stocks | Animal Spirits 392

[@TheCompoundNews]

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[@rpersaud562]

shout out to Mike and Ben and the crew for giving us something to listen to while digesting that Christmas dinner.

[@daverehulka]

33:20 Regarding merging traffic, you actually are supposed to go all the way to the front before you merge, anyone who starts merging earlier is the one slowing down the whole process & disobeying traffic signs. But idk, laws might be different here in Europe. Love the podcast!

[@geoffreysoal4251]

I second this, came with the intention of making the same comment

[@Meishach2112]

Correct.

[@powderdropzone]

Yup. Colorado even puts up billboards trying to educate people.

[@Miggy2j]

Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah guys, thanks for a fun year

[@TheCompoundNews]

Thank you!

[@matt.stevick]

merry christmas 🎄 to the compound and chat! best of luck in 2025 📈🇺🇸

[@chicagomycity]

You all dislike mergers that go to the front but thats actually the correct way to do it, its called the zipper merge. Its safer and it keeps traffic moving. The problem with everyone trying to get in before the end is the fact cars slow down to try to find entry causing everyone to have to break and cause backups. With light traffic, I will merge early, but with heavy traffic, I always zipper.

[@ericj9011]

Specifically, it's most efficient for everybody to merge at the same point, and how else would you decide what point that would be?

[@midwestfinestrealty622]

This was all I wanted for Christmas

[@wannabecompounder]

You guys need to be going all year round. I'm sorry but that's your role in life. The gift came with the curse

[@SpcMs69]

Merging is supposed to be done at the end of the lane, those doing it earlier are the ones screwing it up for everyone...

[@biffgriffbuford]

Happy new year boys

[@jsssm]

You merge when the lane merges, not before, come on guys.

[@chicagomycity]

@@jsssm Exactly. You go to the end and take turns with cars in the adjacent lane. Idk why some people view it as rude. It's the safest way to drive and ensures mergers can safely enter the lane without crashes and backed up traffic.

[@concisecontenttv]

Bingo? "no one had this in their playbooks." This wasn’t on anyone’s radar." "This wasn’t part of the script.", Nobody called this shot." ,"This wasn’t in the cards.", "No one could’ve drawn this up.", "This wasn’t in the forecast

[@matt.stevick]

everyone had a 2000s friend with a …. radar detector. i was the friend 😇🏎️🚓

[@crohmer]

thank you for releasing this during the holidays!!!

[@Wealthforthe99Percent]

Best investing podcast. Happy New Year!

[@joeconnolly60]

As a 23 year old Irish American from Boston, the Guinness segment was worlds colliding. The Dubliner pours a hell of a pint!

[@MBoyer-ng6ok]

Quick takes: ) Bingo is still oddly popular with some demographics in some communities... (It is small scale legal gambling --to merge with the "addiction" theme--think day trading for your grandmother).. ) Fuzz buster!! (radar detector) was the dashboard friend of every speeder in the 80's and early 90's ) Necessary Inflation? Should the US adopt a range (like the Reserve Bank of Australia) of 2-3%, rather than dogmatically insist on 2%? ) Vehicle for youngster: anything but an Audi. ) Ben wins unofficial Compound holiday sweater contest...

[@carterudy5485]

“No one had this on their parlay”

[@tcrowson]

Trading Addiction: how about the adults in the room get vocally anti-YOLO? That single idea (“YOLO!”) is one of the dumbest things affecting people’s decision making today. You have to take risks in life, but Yoloing your way through the year is an adolescent mindset. And next thing you know you have an addiction and are broke.

[@SoDakJason]

Feels like Rosenberg complained straight to Barry, and the price was he gets to scold Ben and Michael in person.

[@TrickwoodTV]

"Today's Animal Spirits with Michael + Ben, we will teach you how to walk in public"

[@FinanceFan_]

Watching this on Xmas instead of football because I lost my entire acct value on parlays

[@30AndAWakeUp]

my 70 year old mother plays bingo

[@garyrogers6977]

You will still be trading in your 70's. Boredom is a greater factor than you can imagine and you will have such a wealth of knowledge.

[@paullemiremusic3101]

Rockstars! Merry Christmas ✌️

[@davidtan5295]

"Rising Sun" (1993 release) too

[@mikekanecopywriter]

Can’t wait until Michael starts watching Landman

[@mikekanecopywriter]

Oh dang they start talking about

[@powderdropzone]

Zipper merging is faster for everyone. If you don't use all the lanes you are part of the problem. Colorado even has billboards trying to get people to do it correctly to speed everyone up.

[@gassman55]

Though I don’t feel i have an issue but I get it being addicted to investing (gambling). Sometimes I will add $100 to a security (a few shares) of something 😮I already own. It feels good to make the trade.

[@Rizhiy13]

47:40 this requires much more verification. There are a lot of statistical tricks you can do to make the numbers look great. E.g. when Tesla claimed autopilot was safer than human drivers, they compared highway driving in optimal conditions vs all driving for humans. So if autopilot didn't know what to do, asked human to take over and this caused a crash, that would be counted as autopilot crash since human took over. Given that driving highway is in general easier than in the city, no wonder it appeared safer.

[@Hank.Louie.8]

Great recommendations segment!! Completely agree with Ben on "Underneath the Tree" getting the classic treatment. (Still a slow burn overall, but definitely in my personal Xmas classics list). And yes, ban the "not on my bingo card" remark from 2025 onward. It's been overdone. And there will be an endless supply of bs that we didn't have "on bingo card" starting next year.

[@jasonw8000]

Instead of saying Bingo Card, say…my Agent missed that one 👉😃

[@old_lem]

Instead of bingo references, how about parchessi? 😂

[@Rizhiy13]

26:10 brokerages will never put limitations in front of customers on their own and regulation won't come until a lot of people demand it. There is already a Pattern Day Trader rule, and WSB guys hate it.

[@TheoreticallyNo]

Michael: I see and respect your Audio Technica headphones. 🎧

[@MatthewKehn187]

Does the apple door camera unlock your house if someone holds a picture of you up to the camera?

[@biffgriffbuford]

Samuel Smith oatmeal stout is a UK good beer

[@FrancisMacomber1936]

Ben wants to nix the 'bingo card' reference, but has called an 'airpocket' twice in 5 minutes.

[@MikeBarnhill]

It’s a Christmas Miracle!! My hour drive to dinner will pass much more quickly.

[@geronimorex3608]

I can’t wait to hear from Rosenberg and do the opposite. Someone should build an Inverse Rosenberg ETF.

[@matthewbruyninckx3054]

Hey Now!!! Great Sal reference…”traction”😅

[@thelibertines111]

52:00 hash tag markus aurelius cracked me up

[@namepolicy3971]

David rose? the guy whos been wrong for 4 years?

[@Kenkoopa44]

Anyone else looking into Guiness stock? Or is this new trend already baked into the price?

[@nicholas5396]

The way i see it, The danger of direct indexing is you have no idea if or when those big companies will drop. I remember in 2018 when Apple became the first 1 trillion dollar company. I also remeber thinking well thats crazy but they're so big now they'll never hit 2 trillion dollars. Welp... As of this writing, Apple is 6 dollar per share price apppreciation away from being a 4 trillion dollar market cap. Thats why i think that write in questions logic is flawed.

[@clamato54]

Bruce Willis, lol... about Ben's tweet I think what's changed is the consistently high ROIC of most of the mag 7 is justifying their P/E and a sea of low ROIC companies in comparison has no draw, even if P/E is low. Who has quantified what the right P/E is based on ROIC? Nobody, so people just go with growth

[@voicification]

Sunnyvale CA in the heart of Silicon Valley is the poster child for 2-3 m dollar 1200 sqft decrepit shacks.

[@tommy-73-dash]

You could tell listeners that ycharts is around $300/month. Seems reasonable but then again. I'm not saying the charts aren't great or the company isn't fantastic. I guess I'm being a Grinch love to have a subscription, just a bit pricy for me.

[@NOT-FINANCIAL-ADVICE.]

I find the phrase "didn't see that on our Bingo card!" is tired and worn out: 5 updated alternatives? Here are 5 fresh alternatives to express surprise at unexpected events: "That's a plot twist I never scripted" "Well, the universe just threw us a curveball" "That's certainly not in the usual playbook" "Whoever's writing this timeline has a wild imagination" "That just rewrote all my predictions" I focused on phrases that capture the same sense of surprise while avoiding the overused bingo metaphor. Would you like me to explore any other variations or tones?

[@Aortadetroit]

New to the podcast and enjoying the honest repartee gentlemen! 😂. When it comes to cars and especially driving, always listen to the Michigan guy.

[@crohmer]

holdovers so overrated

[@Craig_Anderson142]

Thanks guys

[@willstar3760]

No one saw that in their horoscope?

[@daveschmarder-US1950]

Have a happy New Year guys. Happy mud rooming too! :)

[@FredSox49]

The Wrigley Building was the last major Chicago building with elevator operators.

[@chri6393]

Merge Truthers in the comments

[@shirtdirt1874]

ok this, this has to be the top.

[@tcrowson]

Where did you come from, where did you go…,, 🎶

[@mbabcock111]

Merry Christmas gentlemen. 🎄 🎁

[@seangrealish8741]

Merry Christmas!

[@crohmer]

no good deed looks terrible

[@kamikazekeebler]

This is some work ethic lol. ❤🎉

[@crohmer]

lady i work with plays bingo every week

[@jimjaroszewski372]

Just bought my son a 2004 Lexus RX330 with 214k miles. He drives it "very carefully" in Georgia. No worries about snow!

[@chrisbentsen1]

Big tech is wasting so much money on this useless AI.

[@theusersol]

This show is 98% ore

[@DarkLordJmac]

I heard Michael Sailor speak a few times and thought he seemed intelligent. I purchased 10 shares in 2022; the internet now says Ponzi, scam artist, etc... I sold my initial investment. Why would I listen to nameless people on the internet? Maybe he's right, perhaps he's wrong, but isn't the point of investing to place your money in places that are outside normal realms of thinking to get outsized returns.

[@commycomentor9695]

Black n tan 10X cooler than just Guinness

[@ArinzeObiorah-w1u]

I know nothing about trading/ Investing and I'm keen on getting started. What are some strategies to get started?

[@FoxVideoTutorials]

Radar detector!! 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@Nicole-yy1kn]

All I want for Christmas is you is such a terrible Christmas song, the worst I can think of

[@Madrasschebe]

The stock market is certainly gaining momentum right now, but I believe investors should approach with caution. As a beginner in this space, I’m open to hearing insights and perspectives from other investors.

[@ctrl-shift-run8681]

Was thinking of putting some of my money in another index today - FTSE100 or maybe HSI but now i'm convinced, VOO all the way.

[@AdamsBrownAdamsBrown]

I think BTC are more likely to start up investment now. But as always, things change day by day and all we can do is act responsibly, monitor the markets and reassess our strategies frequently. I would like to thank Aaron Joel for being my source of crypto education as I comfortably earned 12.7 BTC. So now I'm ready for Christmas. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year in advance.💫💯✨🥰🤩