Ben Carlson

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Will Young People Ever Buy a House? 4 Sept
Good question about having a mid-life crisis w/your investments It's harder to sit through stock market losses w/a bigger portfolio The next stock market crash… 4 Sept
The unemployment rate has fallen from 4.5% in November to 4.1% in August We've averaged 80k new jobs a month in 2026 AI is not (yet) the job killer everyone in… 4 Sept
How to Invest When Your Portfolio Gets Bigger 3 Sept
Some questions: Would inflation be even worse if we weren’t in a housing recession? Are private markets the perfect place to hide fraud? Are colleges screwed?… 3 Sept
When Thompson died they shot his ashes out of a cannon (per his request) It cost Johnny Depp $5 million 3 Sept Quoting@essa_museHunter S. Thompson refused to come to the studio. The only way Conan could get him on the show was to meet him on a farm in upstate New Yor…
Animal Spirits: The Next Michael Burry The AI story that's never going away Everyone wants to call the AI crash The S&P 493 bull case Why hasn't AI destroyed j… 2 Sept
Animal Spirits: The Next Michael Burry 2 Sept
10 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT INVESTING IN STOCKS 1. Stocks mostly go up but sometimes they go down. Roughly two-thirds of all years have a double-digit pea… 1 Sept
14 Questions I’m Thinking About 1 Sept
We are very close to 7% mortgage rates yet again We've now had mortgage rates >6% since late-2022 And still no housing market crash I do wonder if housing is t… 1 Sept
Talk Your Book: Cash Was Easy…Now What? 31 Aug
Jerry Seinfeld’s Evergreen Career Advice 31 Aug
I kinda hated S1 of Tires It just didn’t work and wasn’t very good Gave S2 a try and thought it was very funny Just finished S3 and I absolutely loved it Funny… 30 Aug
My Most Contrarian Opinion Right Now 28 Aug
Josh Brolin once told Marc Maron after Sicario wrapped shooting that he looked at Benicio Del Toro and said, "Well, that didn't work" William Goldman's "nobody… 28 Aug
10 Things You Need to Know About Investing in Stocks 27 Aug
Remember when software stocks were pronounced dead? [insert Undertaker meme] IGV is now just 7% off all-time highs and up almost 50% from the lows Almost a com… 27 Aug
In 1870 the cost of food, rent and clothing took 91 cents of every dollar earned The average American owned 1.5 shirts No one really had insurance, no Social S… 26 Aug
Animal Spirits: Are Free Markets Dead? 26 Aug
How Will This Cycle End? 25 Aug
Breakneck 21 Dec 2025 Lovedaffiliate link
1929 21 Dec 2025 Lovedaffiliate link
A Night to Remember 21 Dec 2025 Likedaffiliate link
The Inner Game of Tennis 21 Dec 2025 Lovedaffiliate link
The Breaks of the Game 21 Dec 2025 Lovedaffiliate link
Best Movie Year Ever 21 Dec 2025 Lovedaffiliate link
Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live 21 Dec 2025 Likedaffiliate link
The Four Things That Matter Most 21 Dec 2025 Likedaffiliate link
11/22/63 21 Dec 2025 Lovedaffiliate link
The Handmaid’s Tale 21 Dec 2025 Likedaffiliate link
High Fidelity 21 Dec 2025 Likedaffiliate link
Good Material 21 Dec 2025 Likedaffiliate link