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Welcome to Ask The Compound, the weekly show where Ben Carlson, Duncan Hill, and a rotating cast of financial experts answer your questions about investing and personal finance. Ben is a leading financial writer and the Director of Institutional Asset Management at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Duncan is a podcast producer and the Director of Creative Media at Ritholtz Wealth Management. See our disclosures here - https://ritholtzwealth.com/podcast-youtube-disclosures/

Episode Date
The Psychology of Inflation
Apr 18, 2024
The Most Tax-Efficient Places to Live
Apr 11, 2024
Is It Better to Buy or Rent Right Now?
Apr 04, 2024
An Alternative to the 60/40 Portfolio
Mar 28, 2024
Is the S&P 500 Overvalued?
Mar 21, 2024
How Much Should You Have Saved in Your 30s?
Mar 14, 2024
What’s the Investment Case for Gold?
Mar 07, 2024
What’s the Biggest Risk to the Market?
Feb 29, 2024
How Do You Create Generational Wealth?
Feb 22, 2024
Career Advice from Downtown Josh Brown
Feb 15, 2024
How Should You Invest at All-Time Highs?
Feb 08, 2024
How to Save More Money
Feb 01, 2024
Can You Live off Dividends in Retirement?
Jan 25, 2024
What’s the Historical Return on Housing?
Jan 18, 2024
What’s the Investment Case for Bitcoin?
Jan 11, 2024
Does FIRE Make Sense for Me?
Jan 04, 2024
How to Buy a House Right Now
Dec 21, 2023
How Many Millionaires Are There?
Dec 14, 2023
When Should You Pay Off Your Mortgage Early?
Dec 07, 2023
How Should I Invest Cash on the Sidelines?
Nov 30, 2023
Where Should I Invest $50K Right Now?
Nov 16, 2023
What’s in Ben’s Portfolio?
Nov 09, 2023
What if This Time Is Different?
Nov 02, 2023
Are Stocks Still For the Long Run?
Oct 26, 2023
What’s the Best Time to Buy Stocks?
Oct 19, 2023
Do I Still Have Time for Compounding to Work?
Oct 12, 2023
How Do I Lock In Higher Yields on My Cash?
Oct 05, 2023
How Much Is Your Happiness Worth?
Sep 28, 2023
When Should You Rent Instead of Buy?
Sep 21, 2023
How Expensive Is It to Have Kids?
Sep 14, 2023
What’s the State of the U.S. Economy?
Sep 07, 2023
Is It Too Late for a 401(k)?
Aug 31, 2023
How Do I Stop Stressing About Money?
Aug 24, 2023
How Do You Know if Your Financial Plan Is Working?
Aug 17, 2023
Am I Saving Too Much?
Aug 10, 2023
Should I Own a Rental Property?
Aug 03, 2023
How Much Do You Need to Retire Early?
Jul 27, 2023
Why Is Market Timing So Appealing?
Jul 20, 2023
How Do You Invest 100% Of Your Money in Stocks?
Jul 13, 2023
Is This the Worst Time Ever to Buy a Home?
Jun 29, 2023
Will Stock Returns Be Lower Going Forward?
Jun 22, 2023
What’s the Best Strategy for Selling Stocks?
Jun 15, 2023
I Sold My Stocks. What Now?
Jun 08, 2023
How Much Money Do You Need to Save?
Jun 01, 2023
Is International Diversification Worth It?
May 25, 2023
What if the U.S. Government Defaults?
May 18, 2023
What’s the Biggest Financial Bubble of All-Time?
May 11, 2023
Is the Bear Market Over?
May 04, 2023
Am I Spending Too Much?
Apr 27, 2023
How Do I Max Out My Roth IRA?
Apr 20, 2023
Should I Pay Off My Mortgage or Invest in Stocks?
Apr 13, 2023
Will AI Replace Financial Advisors?
Mar 30, 2023
Are We Done With High Inflation?
Mar 23, 2023
Is My Money Safe?
Mar 16, 2023
Should I Invest in Real Estate instead of my 401(k)?
Mar 09, 2023
Should I Put Riskier Stocks in my Roth IRA?
Mar 02, 2023
Are Covered Calls a Replacement for Bonds?
Feb 23, 2023
Is a Backdoor Roth IRA Worth the Hassle?
Feb 09, 2023
Does the Debt Ceiling Matter to the Market?
Feb 02, 2023
Is Whole Life Insurance Ever Worth It?
Jan 26, 2023
Is It Crazy to Be 100% Invested in Stocks?
Jan 19, 2023
How Much Do Dividends Matter to the Stock Market?
Jan 12, 2023
Why Should I Invest in the Stock Market?
Jan 05, 2023
What's the Market Going to Do in 2023?
Dec 22, 2022
Will Baby Boomers Crash the Stock Market?
Dec 15, 2022
Why Is the Bond Market Screaming Recession?
Dec 08, 2022
Is Real Estate a Better Investment Than the Stock Market?
Dec 01, 2022
How Should You Invest for Your Kids?
Nov 17, 2022
When Should You Sell Your Beaten-Down Stocks?
Nov 10, 2022
When Should Your Asset Allocation Change?
Nov 03, 2022
What’s a Better Buy Right Now - Stocks or Bonds?
Oct 27, 2022
What Is the Fed Doing?
Oct 20, 2022
What’s the Worst Case Scenario for Stocks?
Oct 13, 2022
Should I Buy a House Right Now?
Oct 06, 2022
What’s the Best Inflation Hedge Right Now?
Sep 29, 2022
Are All Bear Markets Like This?
Sep 22, 2022
Do Young People Need a Financial Advisor?
Sep 15, 2022
How Much Should You Save in Your 30s?
Sep 08, 2022
How Do You Minimize Taxes in Retirement?
Sep 01, 2022
How should I Invest in My 20s?
Aug 25, 2022
How Should I Invest an Inheritance?
Aug 18, 2022
How Does a Bear Market End?
Aug 11, 2022
Is Real Estate the Best Inflation Hedge?
Jul 28, 2022
Is Wealth Destroyed or Reallocated During a Bear Market?
Jul 21, 2022
Why You Should Buy Quickly and Sell Slowly
Jul 14, 2022
What’s the Safest Thing to Buy During a Bear Market?
Jul 07, 2022
What’s the Best Travel Credit Card?
Jun 30, 2022
Is It Time to Sell Bonds?
Jun 23, 2022
How Can I Hedge Falling Housing Prices?
Jun 16, 2022
What’s More Important: Saving or Investing?
Jun 09, 2022
How Does Compounding Work in a Bear Market?
Jun 02, 2022
How Do I Buy During a Bear Market?
May 26, 2022
How Do I Max Out My Retirement Accounts?
May 19, 2022
How Do I Survive a Bear Market?
May 12, 2022
Is 75/25 the New 60/40?
May 05, 2022
Why Does the Stock Market Go Up?
Apr 27, 2022
Should I Average Down on Losing Investments?
Apr 21, 2022
How do Series I Savings Bonds Work?
Apr 14, 2022
Should I Pay Down Student Loans or Invest in the Market?
Apr 07, 2022
How Much of My Net Worth Should I Use for a Down Payment?
Mar 31, 2022
How Do I Hedge Against Stagflation?
Mar 24, 2022
How Do I Prepare For a Recession?
Mar 17, 2022
Are We Heading For a Recession?
Mar 10, 2022
How Should I Invest if I Have a Low Risk Tolerance?
Mar 03, 2022
The Psychology of a Sell-Off
Feb 24, 2022
How Much Do I Need For a Down Payment?
Feb 17, 2022
Should I Let My Winners Ride?
Feb 11, 2022
Investing is a Problem-Solving Exercise
Feb 01, 2022
How Often Does the Stock Market Crash?
Jan 22, 2022
Inflation and the Elephant
Jan 20, 2022
When Should I Sell a Stock That’s Down?
Jan 15, 2022
Living Through a Crash
Jan 14, 2022
What is the Buffett Indicator Telling Us About Stocks?
Jan 07, 2022
What Does Equal Weight S&P 500 Say About Top 5 Stocks?
Jan 03, 2022
Could Crypto Kill the Stock Market?
Dec 30, 2021
7 Trends in Car Markets
Dec 27, 2021
What Makes a Community Attractive?
Dec 23, 2021
How Do I Avoid Big Losers in the Stock Market?
Dec 14, 2021
Survivorship Bias, Legos Edition
Dec 13, 2021
Stop Listening to Pundits
Dec 09, 2021
It’s the Most Forecasty Time of the Year
Dec 08, 2021
Corrections, Retracements, Crashes & Dips
Dec 07, 2021
Why You Shouldn't Max Out Your 401k
Nov 29, 2021
Structural or Transitory?
Nov 24, 2021
Who Is Quitting and Why?
Nov 22, 2021
Long Time Coming
Nov 19, 2021
Where Should I Save For My Down Payment?
Nov 15, 2021
Should I Invest in Rental Properties?
Nov 12, 2021
How We Experience Time
Nov 12, 2021
Productivity Is Offsetting Wage Gains
Nov 10, 2021
In Praise of Profits with Ed Yardeni
Nov 09, 2021
We’re Already at Dow 54,452
Nov 06, 2021
Stagflation LOL
Nov 03, 2021
How News Looks When It's Old
Nov 02, 2021
Risking, Fast and Slow
Oct 28, 2021
The Confusing State of Inflation Inputs
Oct 26, 2021
Radically Changing Labor Market
Oct 11, 2021
Gradually, Then Suddenly
Oct 04, 2021
One-Sided Markets
Oct 01, 2021
Misunderstanding Narratives: The Hero’s Journey
Sep 27, 2021
What If Things Go Right?
Sep 24, 2021
Abundance & Scarcity: The Enemies of Appreciation
Sep 22, 2021
Lessons from Our Origin Story
Sep 20, 2021
Boring is Beautiful
Sep 20, 2021
The 4 Financial Plotlines
Sep 10, 2021
What Else Would You Call It?
Sep 08, 2021
My Worst Trades
Sep 07, 2021
Fight the FOMO
Aug 31, 2021
Wisdom I Wish I Knew 30 Years Ago
Aug 31, 2021
The Carrot and the Stick
Aug 24, 2021
Missing: Corporate Leadership on Vaccines
Aug 23, 2021
How Much Have Americans Increased their Homes’ Values?
Aug 20, 2021
Context Matters: Time Frames
Aug 18, 2021
How Much is the Rule of Law Worth to Markets?
Aug 12, 2021
How Everybody Miscalculated Housing Demand
Aug 11, 2021
Magic Beans
Aug 09, 2021
Reduced Competition Costs American Families $5,000/year
Jul 21, 2021
Why Do We Always Focus on the Bad Stuff?
Jul 17, 2021
The Economic Risks from Anti-Vaxxers
Jul 16, 2021
Buying Mortgage Backed Securities is Boomer Stimulus
Jul 14, 2021
Unknown Unknowns
Jul 12, 2021
Top 10 Rules for Money
Jul 08, 2021
Other People's Money
Jun 25, 2021
What If EVERYTHING Is Narrative?
Jun 21, 2021
How To Prepare For a Lengthy Bull Market
Jun 17, 2021
Seismic Shift
Jun 15, 2021
Table Stakes
Jun 14, 2021
The Inflation Reset
Jun 03, 2021
The Great Reset
Jun 02, 2021
If You're Still Worried, You Aren't Wealthy
Jun 01, 2021
Cold Calling (finally) Dies
May 26, 2021
On The Bright Side
May 19, 2021
Every Single Time
May 14, 2021
10 Things You Shouldn't Care About as an Investor
May 06, 2021
The Golden Age of Fraud is Upon Us
Apr 29, 2021
The Case For a Having a Fun Portfolio
Apr 29, 2021
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Apr 22, 2021
New Wealth Comes Along With New Emotions
Apr 21, 2021
Accessing Losses via Direct Indexing
Apr 16, 2021
Banks Make A Lot of Money When the Fed + Treasury Outlaw Losses
Apr 14, 2021
Leveraging Gifts with Life Insurance
Apr 13, 2021
Smart Tickets: Creators Capturing Secondary Market Sales
Apr 08, 2021
Why This Isn't Another Housing Bubble
Apr 08, 2021
Demise of the Dollar?
Apr 06, 2021
Purposeless Capital
Apr 05, 2021
Not a Housing Bubble
Apr 01, 2021
Bull Market Beset by Too Many Misconceptions
Mar 31, 2021
Everyone is an Investor
Mar 26, 2021
The Art of Calling a Market Top
Mar 26, 2021
Non-Compete
Mar 25, 2021
Tech Bubble or Rotation?
Mar 25, 2021
Get Rich versus Stay Rich
Mar 25, 2021
What's Changed For Now and What's Changed Forever
Mar 22, 2021
Not the Same Internet as the Dotcom Bubble
Mar 19, 2021
Ray Dalio and the Power of Setting Defaults for Optimism
Mar 18, 2021
Is Measuring Wealth Using A Scorecard A Good Idea?
Mar 18, 2021
Macro Thinking
Mar 16, 2021
How Lucky Was Your Birth Year?
Mar 16, 2021
The Twenty Craziest Investing Facts Ever
Mar 16, 2021
Owning Individual Stocks vs. Owning the Stock Market
Mar 12, 2021
They Will Flood The Market With Collectibles
Mar 10, 2021
The Most Important Chart of the Decade
Mar 09, 2021
Peter Lynch is the GOAT
Mar 05, 2021
A Bleak Future For Long-Term Government Bonds
Mar 04, 2021
Dragging Out a College Degree is a Drag on Finances
Mar 03, 2021
How To Make A Million Dollars Day Trading
Mar 02, 2021
What Is Top Shot?
Feb 27, 2021
Don’t Let Illusions Of Control Ruin Your Financial Goals
Feb 25, 2021
Beware Economists Warning Against “Too Much Stimulus” (Again)
Feb 24, 2021
America’s CEOs Are Having a Good Year
Feb 23, 2021
Why Is College So Expensive?
Feb 20, 2021
How Do You Know If You’re Saving Enough For Retirement?
Feb 17, 2021
The Catch-22 of Selling Your House Right Now
Feb 15, 2021
How David Beats Goliath in Real Life
Feb 12, 2021
Friends Don’t Leave Friends Holding the Bag
Feb 11, 2021
Oblivious
Feb 09, 2021
How The Stock Market Works
Feb 08, 2021
Managing Your Investments Late in the Cycle
Feb 05, 2021
It Feels Like the Game is Rigged
Feb 04, 2021
Delete Junk Food From Your Retirement Portfolio
Feb 03, 2021
Crowdsourced Pump and Dump
Feb 02, 2021
Late Cycle Bubblicious?
Jan 30, 2021
Stimulus, More Stimulus and Taxes
Jan 28, 2021
Reaching Your Financial Resolutions in 3 Easy Steps
Jan 27, 2021
Dear Samantha
Jan 26, 2021
We Don’t Live In Our 401(k) Plans
Jan 22, 2021
How to Make Millions in Bitcoin
Jan 21, 2021
Silicon Valley De-Platforming: Freedom & Censorship
Jan 20, 2021
What is Wrong with These People?
Jan 18, 2021
It's OK to Build Wealth Slowly
Jan 15, 2021
The Stock Market is Causing the Bubbles
Jan 14, 2021
Eventual Failure of False Belief Systems
Jan 12, 2021
Two Simple Rules For Building Real Wealth
Jan 11, 2021
When an Asset Goes Out of Style
Jan 08, 2021
Lock It In
Jan 06, 2021
A Short History of Chasing the Best Performing Fund
Jan 05, 2021
What if You Only Invested at Market Peaks?
Dec 31, 2020
How to Avoid Bear Markets
Dec 30, 2020
A Recovery Squandered
Dec 23, 2020
"Take All Your Common Stocks And Sell Them"
Dec 22, 2020
This Is Not The Way
Dec 21, 2020
Cape 2020 vs 1929
Dec 20, 2020
How Are Normal People Supposed To Save For Retirement?
Dec 19, 2020
Asset Destruction
Dec 18, 2020
My 2020 Investing Lessons
Dec 17, 2020
Airbnb and DoorDash Showcase Best and Worst of Uber
Dec 16, 2020
The Most Important Assumption
Dec 14, 2020