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Posted October 26, 2026 by Ben Carlson Today’s Talk Your Book is brought to you by Calamos: On today’s show, we discuss: “Peak 65” – The…

One of the hard parts about financial planning is that you get plenty of at-bats at the little stuff, like spending money, investing, and saving, but…

Posted October 25, 2026 by Ben Carlson Today’s Talk Your Book is brought to you by CME Group: On today’s show, we discuss: Why CME Group…

A friend was cleaning out one of his rental properties and came across the business section in an old newspaper from 1960: The chart shows the…

A reader asks: On a recent episode of Animal Spirits, Ben mentioned he bought bonds for the first time in his career. Can we hear more…

Posted October 21, 2026 by nelson Today’s Animal Spirits is brought to you by WisdomTree: On today’s show, we discuss: Listen here: Charts: Tweets/BlueSky: We’ve had…

In the fall of 2022, the inflation rate peaked at more than 9%: At the time a recession was a foregone conclusion: It was a ‘when’…

Posted October 19, 2026 by Ben Carlson Today’s Talk Your Book is brought to you by Victory Capital: To learn more about Victory Capital click here:…

Through the end of September, these are the annual returns over various time frames for the S&P 500: 3 years +22.9% 7 years +16.2% 10 years…

Edward Chancellor’s The Price of Time provides a wonderful explanation of the importance of interest rates in a functioning economic system. Interest rates help determine how…