Animal Spirits Podcast · The Compound

Talk Your Book: The Bull Market in Real Assets

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David Shastler reveals why AI's success depends on a huge build-out of energy and infrastructure, boosting real assets.
Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson interview David Shastler from VanEck about the bull market in real assets, discussing how AI-driven growth, government spending, and de-dollarization are driving demand for commodities, gold, and infrastructure, with insights into portfolio construction and market trends.

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A gold bull case built on debt, deficits, central bank buying, and hard assets.

This episode leans into a clear gold thesis, tying VanEck's Real Assets ETF, RACS, to debt, deficits, central bank buying, and the appeal of hard assets after the Ukraine war and the weaponizing of the dollar.

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Gold talk that keeps getting dragged back to debt, deficits, and the part you cannot print.

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