Ben Carlson
@awealthofcs
Trying to bring some common sense to the world of finance. Book: http://amzn.to/1FmQOXf Podcast: http://awealthofcommonsense.com/podcast/
My brother Jon died this week after complications from pancreatic cancer He would have turned 46 in March Jon was very private about it all but I wanted to tell his story so I wrote about it Hug your loved ones awealthofcommonsense.com/2025/02/there-…
"Even with higher margins, corporate profits and sales are still tied to economic growth and consumer spending." 🤔 - @awealthofcs awealthofcommonsense.com/2025/07/why-ca…
Every list (best movies, players, podcasts, food, etc) is released for one reason and one reason only: Rage bait And we fall for it ever damn time
Is it a good or bad thing if you started investing during a lost decade? Will the retail buy the dip mentality and automated investing eliminate the possibility of lost decades going forward? awealthofcommonsense.com/2025/07/the-be…
"The information age, social media and algorithms have absolutely sped up market cycles." 🔄 - @awealthofcs awealthofcommonsense.com/2025/07/the-be…
Health is Wealth @awealthofcs @duncanhillphoto 🎦youtube.com/live/x7DVfjSJt…
Bitcoin Doesn't Care if You Believe @awealthofcs @michaelbatnick ⏯️youtube.com/watch?v=Mytfq0…
I know there was a lot of talk about the roaring 20s coming out of the pandemic Inflation snuffed that out But I think what we got is better This is the most resilient stock market, economy & consumer of all-time Pandemic, inflation, tariffs, etc and it just keeps chugging
Carnegie, Gould, JP Morgan & Rockefeller were all born in the 1830s Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Paul Allen & Steve Wozniak were all born in the 1950s Julian Robertson, Paul Tudor Jones, Stanley Druckenmiller, Seth Klarman & Jim Simons all started hedge funds in the early 1980s…
Preview of Animal Spirits on YouTube today: youtube.com/watch?v=Mytfq0…
What is Upper Middle Class? | Ep 422🎙️ @awealthofcs and @michaelbatnick discuss why stock market returns can't be 15% per year forever, putting the Mag 7 into context, small caps are cheap, Opendoor is the new meme stock, investing is easy, owning 50% of a single stock in your…
Animal Spirits: What is Upper Middle Class? Mag 7 is swallowing the stock market Small caps are cheap Sentiment is broken forever Everyone thinks they're gonna be rich Will Bitcoin crash in the next recession? The best movie year ever (1999) & more awealthofcommonsense.com/2025/07/animal…
My entire adult life: taxes have nowhere to go but up to pay for all this government spending. they have to rise [another tax cut like every 6 years like clockwork] Ah well. Nevertheless
"The best investors of the 1960s and 1970s would have underperformed some of the worst investors of the 1980s and 1990s simply because of the market environment." 🎲🎲 - @awealthofcs awealthofcommonsense.com/2025/07/the-ov…
Everyone thinks 0% interest rates were the cause of a lot of speculative behavior during the pandemic Maybe they were But we're seeing meme stocks again w/interest rates at 4-5% The dot-com bubble happened w/a 6% 10 year Treasury yield Rates don't matter as much as you think
My book, The Wealth Ladder, is now available: geni.us/wealthladderha…
Man’s Best Friend🐶💸 @awealthofcs @duncanhillphoto ⏯️youtube.com/watch?v=OvHhlB…
Remember when ppl used to argue about what happens to stock market liquidity and price discovery when everyone just indexes? About that...
The 1980s/1990s bull market is the greatest US run of all-time We're not quite there but the 2010s and 2020s are in the ballpark No one predicted this coming out of the Great Financial Crisis awealthofcommonsense.com/2025/07/the-do…
"We’re on the verge of our fourth amazing decade of returns in the past five." ↗️↗️➡️↗️↗️ - @awealthofcs awealthofcommonsense.com/2025/07/the-do…