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Boy that escalated quickly. Thursday was a pretty nasty day in the stock market, especially in the tech and AI names. The S&P 500 fell more…

A reader asks: I’m 16 months out from retirement and am looking at shifting my dozen or so mutual funds with Vanguard to a firm that…

Today’s Animal Spirits is brought to you by Franklin Templeton: On today’s show, we discuss: Listen here: Charts: Tweets/BlueSky: AI is creating so much volatility right…

The Federal Reserve conducts its Survey of Consumer Finances once every three years. It’s like the Olympics or World Cup for econ and finance nerds like…

Posted November 2, 2026 by Ben Carlson Today’s Talk Your Book is brought to you by Nuveen: On today’s show, we discuss: Ways to gain AI…

Google reported earnings last week. The numbers were big but investors didn’t like what they heard. The next day the stock was down 12%, one of…

AI is the biggest story in the market this year, this decade and probably this century. Predicting the boom-bust nature of how this cycle will play…

 A reader asks: I’m a late-20s CPA. Married, no kids yet. I’m admittedly a number-crunching spreadsheet guy so let’s leave the psychological components out of…

Today’s Animal Spirits is brought to you by Eaton Vance and Janus Henderson: On today’s show, we discuss: Listen here: Charts: Tweets/BlueSky: Chart of the year…

The new Nathan Fielder movie You Can See Everything about Elizabeth Holmes is the rare documentary that has reached the popular culture zeitgeist. There have been a…