📈 Stock Investing

Steve Eisman

Defense analyst Peter Arment explains how decades of post-Cold War consolidation left the U.S. defense industrial base unable to rapidly scale production, creating a vacuum that Silicon Valley-funded defense tech companies are now filling with cheaper, faster systems as geopolitical threats expose critical supply chain vulnerabilities.

Excess Returns

Quant legend Cliff Asness and bubble expert Andy Constan reveal why private equity's smoothed returns create a dangerous volatility illusion, and how bubbles trick investors into leveraging up precisely when risk is highest through artificially low volatility and trending markets.

Patrick Boyle

SpaceX's IPO prospectus reveals a company valued at $1.75 trillion claiming to be an AI giant despite Starlink being its only profitable division, while obscuring massive losses, unsustainable competitor contracts, and conflicted related-party transactions beneath philosophical rhetoric about human consciousness.

Excess Returns

Cliff Asness revisits his seminal work on the dot-com bubble, dissecting the circular logic that fueled speculative manias while arguing that true risk is permanent capital loss rather than volatility, and drawing parallels between today's elevated valuations (CAPE ~40) and the 1999 tech bubble.

Financial Education

The speaker analyzes Estee Lauder's 11.5% after-hours surge driven by margin expansion and terminated merger talks, while explaining his decision to sell Adobe at a 20% loss due to concerns over single-digit growth and AI disruption risks.

Excess Returns

Andy Constan explains his five-phase bubble framework, arguing that investors must shift from stock-centric strategies to owning the complete "market portfolio" of assets while rigorously managing behavioral risks like FOMO that inevitably peak during parabolic market regimes.

Financial Education

AMD surged 300%+ after CEO Lisa Su met with Chinese Vice Premier, signaling potential thaw in US-China semiconductor restrictions, while ELF Beauty beat earnings expectations and trades at deeply discounted levels despite 35% revenue growth.

Excess Returns

Financial expert Ben Carlson explains that successful long-term investing requires accepting unavoidable risk, resisting action bias during volatility, and understanding that even an 86% crash in 1929 couldn't prevent 8% annual returns for patient investors who avoided panic selling.

Excess Returns

Deep Water Asset Management's Doug Clinton and Gene Munster argue AI remains in its 1996-era infancy with years of growth ahead before any bubble peak, as enterprise adoption explodes with coding agents driving unprecedented demand while threatening severe short-term disruption to knowledge workers who fail to adapt.

Steve Eisman

Bob Brackett explains that despite Iran's historic blockage of the Strait of Hormuz removing 20% of global oil supply and triggering record inventory drains, energy stocks trade lower due to market hope for resolution and generalist investor apathy, creating a dangerous disconnect between surging fundamentals and depressed valuations.

Excess Returns

Legendary bubble investor Jeremy Grantham and macro strategist Andy Constant join the podcast to explain why mega-cap tech has defied historical mean reversion through regulatory tolerance of monopolies, while detailing the three-phase lifecycle of financial bubbles from innovation through escalation to peak.

Excess Returns

Legendary investor Jeremy Grantham argues that AI will ultimately become a commoditized cost of doing business rather than a driver of permanently higher corporate profits, while defending his reputation as a selective "perma bear" who believes mean reversion remains the dominant force in markets despite recent monopoly distortions.