Animal Spirits Podcast · The Compound

What Would You Do With $3 Million? (EP. 451)

·1 hr 18 min·5 clips
107 stocks crashed 4% in one day, yet the S&P 500 was just 1.5% off its record high.
Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson analyze a dramatic market rotation away from tech giants like the Magnificent Seven into sectors like consumer staples and small caps, driven by AI disruptions to software companies. They explore risks in private credit, Bitcoin sentiment, and personal finance choices, while touching on parenting trends.

As heard by us

A skeptical, numbers-first chat about CapEx, AI spend, and what markets are pricing.

The episode follows the same question the market keeps returning to: how much spending is too much, and when does a giant capital plan start to look less like waste and more like the cost of the next wave?

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Press play if you want the CapEx debate without the corporate fog.

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