The Meb Faber Show - Better Investing
Ready to grow your wealth through smarter investing decisions? With The Meb Faber Show, bestselling author, entrepreneur, and investment fund manager, Meb Faber, brings you insights on today’s markets and the art of investing. Featuring some of the top investment professionals in the world as his guests, Meb will help you interpret global equity, bond, and commodity markets just like the pros. Whether it’s smart beta, trend following, value investing, or any other timely market topic, each week you’ll hear real market wisdom from the smartest minds in investing today. Better investing starts here. For more information on Meb, please visit MebFaber.com. For more on Cambria Investment Management, visit CambriaInvestments.com.
Episodes
October 30, 2026 • 23 mins
In the latest podcast episode, I discuss three Cambria funds that each wrap a globally diversified portfolio into a single ETF: the Cambria Global Asset Allocation ETF (GAA), the Cambria Global Momentum ETF (GMOM), and the Cambria Trinity ETF (TRTY).
I share my perspective on why the traditional 60/40 portfolio may disappoint from today’s starting valuations and why going global and keeping fees low matters more than picking...
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October 23, 2026 • 60 mins
My guest today is Vincent Deluard, Director of Global Macro Strategy at StoneX.
In today’s episode, Vincent explains why he’s turning bearish on stocks after years of being a bull. He shares why tax collections are his favorite gauge of the economy, why the world is really paying $150 to $200 for oil and why Europe resembles Japan in 2012, just uglier.
To close, Vincent makes the case for owning the yen, Korean ...
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October 19, 2026 • 48 mins
My guest today is Dirk Willer, Head of Global Macro, Asset Allocation and Emerging Market Strategy at Citi.
In today’s episode, Dirk says we’re in an AI bubble and why that’s a reason to buy, not sell. He shares why the bond selloff relates to growth rather than deficits, how the Warsh Fed echoes Greenspan and why Brazil is one of his favorite markets.
To close, Dirk shares his best hedges for when the bub...
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October 9, 2026 • 45 mins
My guest today is Andrew Ang, Founder of Tau Balance and professor at Columbia University. He previously ran factor investing at BlackRock.
In today's episode, Andrew explains how a swarm of AI agents can reinvent the investment workflow rather than automating pieces of it. He shows how specialized agents, each running its own asset class or portfolio method, vote on one another's allocation calls. He also argues for diversificati...
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October 2, 2026 • 12 mins
In the latest podcast episode, I discuss five Cambria funds that each apply the same shareholder yield discipline, emphasizing companies that return cash to shareholders through dividends and buybacks.
I share my perspective on why focusing on dividends alone misses most of the story, how buybacks grew to rival and then surpass dividends in some parts of the world, and why valuation matters when companies repurchase their ...
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September 25, 2026 • 37 mins
In today's episode, Dave draws on 45 years and over 100 countries to argue why scarcity still matters in a world obsessed with infinite money and AI. He makes the case that the world trades at a discount while America sits at record valuations.
To close, Dave explains why undervalued commodities eventually catch up with inflation.
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September 18, 2026 • 42 mins
Today’s guest is Roger Ibbotson, a finance professor at Yale for four decades and founder of Ibbotson Associates.
In today’s episode, Roger shares a century of stock and bond data and how one dollar became fifteen thousand in large caps over a hundred years. He explains why most people never capture those returns, and why total returns went unmeasured for decades. To close, Roger makes the case for young investors owni...
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September 11, 2026 • 51 mins
Today’s guest is Robin Wigglesworth, editor of FT Alphaville at the Financial Times and the author of A Fabulous Debt: The Epic Story of How Bonds Built the Modern World.
In today’s episode, Robin makes the case that bonds, not stocks, are the bedrock of finance and quietly built the modern world. He explores the hidden plumbing beneath it, from the $12 trillion repo market to the leverage lurking in Treasuries, and wh...
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September 8, 2026 • 50 mins
Today’s guest is Inigo Fraser Jenkins, Chief Investment Strategist at AllianceBernstein.
In today’s episode, Inigo argues that the golden era of easy diversification and high real returns is ending. He defends US equity exceptionalism while declining to defend the dollar.
To close, he makes the case for gold and explains why bonds may no longer diversify equities.
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August 31, 2026 • 45 mins
Today’s guest is Paul Kedrosky, a fellow at the MIT Institute for the Digital Economy, partner at SK Ventures and former sell-side analyst.
In today’s episode, Paul Kedrosky explains why AI sits at the intersection of every force behind the biggest bubbles. He walks through why tokens are the fastest-deflating commodity ever, why more than half the data center buildout runs on debt instead of cash flow, and why an IPO ...
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August 25, 2026 • 47 mins
Today’s guest is Jerry Parker, founder and CEO of Chesapeake Capital and one of the original Turtles trained by Richard Dennis. Together we run the Cambria Chesapeake Pure Trend ETF (MFUT).
In today's episode, Jerry explains why managed futures isn't the same as trend following. He breaks down the math and psychology of hunting outliers, letting a few winners pay for many small losses, and why he'd never chase crisis alpha a...
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August 21, 2026 • 38 mins
Today’s guest is David Booth, founder of Dimensional Fund Advisors, which now manages over $1 trillion. He studied under Eugene Fama at Chicago and helped build one of the first index funds at Wells Fargo.
In today’s episode, David traces Dimensional’s arc from indexing’s earliest days at Wells Fargo to crossing $1 trillion in AUM this year. He shares what Gene Fama said when he got the call, the story of d...
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August 14, 2026 • 53 mins
Today’s guest is Luke Gromen, founder of the macro research firm Forest for the Trees, or FFTT.
In today's episode, Luke argues that free trade is dead, and the US is pivoting to Hamiltonian economics: tariffs, reshoring, and a neutral reserve asset. He explains why the US Treasury can no longer be the world's reserve asset, why long bonds have become certificates of confiscation, and why gold belongs in every portfolio. To...
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August 12, 2026 • 12 mins
In today's episode, I read the opening of my new book, Investing in America: The Rise of a 250-Year Bull Market, plus a couple of sidebars. The book is available now. Grab a copy on Amazon or learn more at www.investinginamericabook.com.
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July 31, 2026 • 41 mins
Today’s guest is Liaquat Ahamed, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, one of the greatest financial history books ever written. His new book is called 1873: The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern World.
In today’s episode, Liaquat shares the story of the world’s first truly global financial crisis. He walks through the Rot...
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July 24, 2026 • 57 mins
Today’s guest is Bob Robotti, founder and CIO of Robotti and Company Advisors, which he’s been running the firm since 1983.
In today’s episode, Bob explains why volatile markets driven by passive flows keep handing opportunities to stock pickers. He makes the case for offshore oil services and homebuilders, shows why zombie companies can be dollars trading for 20 cents, and argues 2% inflation is a pipe dream.&nb...
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July 17, 2026 • 47 mins
My guest today is Carson Block, founder of Muddy Waters Research & Muddy Waters Capital and one of the last short sellers still standing.
In today’s episode, Carson Block explains why he thinks AI could displace 15% of knowledge workers and unwind the market’s biggest stocks. He breaks down his short of SoFi’s aggressive loan accounting, why record-tight credit spreads worry him, and how he trades that risk w...
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My guest today is Joseph Moore, a historian and former professor who spent over a decade in the archives studying 300 years of American financial advice, which he explains in his new book, How to Get Rich in American History: 300 Years of Financial Advice That Worked (& Didn’t).
In today’s episode, Joseph explains what 300 years of American financial advice reveals about getting rich. He shares why real estate bare...
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Today’s guest is Rebecca Anderson, a Senior Fellow at the McKinsey Global Institute, McKinsey’s business and economics research arm. She leads research on economic growth and the financial system, in the United States and globally.
In today’s episode, Rebecca shares her McKinsey report on what has powered America’s economy for 250 years: natural endowments, a culture of entrepreneurship, and the institution...
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June 26, 2026 • 54 mins
Today’s guest is Ben Carlson of Ritholtz Wealth Management, author of A Wealth of Common Sense and host of the Animal Spirits podcast.
In today’s episode, Ben unpacks the counterintuitive math behind long term investing. He reveals that picking the wrong asset every year still makes money, that the average up year tops 20%, and that stocks grow less volatile than bonds the longer you hold. To close, Ben explains why pa...
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