The Compound and Friends
Join Downtown Josh Brown, Michael Batnick, and a rotation of their friends every Tuesday and Friday for expert insight and hot takes on the latest in business and investing. See our disclosures here - https://ritholtzwealth.com/podcast-youtube-disclosures/
Episodes
May 9, 2025 • 89 mins
On episode 191 of The Compound and Friends, Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown are joined by Carson Block, Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Muddy Waters Capital to discuss: how activist short-sellers expose fraud, Carson's biggest shorts, the problem with CEO compensation, and much more!
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May 6, 2025 • 56 mins
On this TCAF Tuesday, Join Michael Batnick (Managing Partner, Ritholtz Wealth Management) and guest co-host Callie Cox (Chief Market Strategist, Ritholtz Wealth Management) for another episode of What Are Your Thoughts and see what they have to say about the biggest topics in investing and finance!
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May 2, 2025 • 84 mins
On episode 190 of The Compound and Friends, Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown are joined by Neil Dutta of RenMac to discuss: the risk of recession, what's really behind Trump's tariffs, the Fed's next move, the explosion of AI, and much more!
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April 29, 2025 • 125 mins
On this TCAF Tuesday, Downtown Josh Brown sits down with Kenneth Rogoff, an economist, Harvard economics professor, and chess grandmaster, to discuss his new book "Our Dollar, Your Problem". They also dive into the current trade war, the dollars dominance, Bitcoin, an independent Federal Reserve and much more! Then at 57:16 hear an all-new episode of What Are Your Thoughts with Josh Brown and Michael Batnick!
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April 25, 2025 • 75 mins
On episode 189 of The Compound and Friends, Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown are joined by Rebecca Patterson, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and former Chief Investment Strategist at Bridgewater Associates, to discuss: what's next for the stock market, what the trade war means for small businesses, the Fed's dilemma, foreign capital flows, the rally in gold, and much more!
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April 22, 2025 • 73 mins
On this TCAF Tuesday, hear an all-new episode of What Are Your Thoughts with Downtown Josh Brown and Michael Batnick!
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April 18, 2025 • 67 mins
On episode 188 of The Compound and Friends, Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown are joined by Warren Pies of 3Fourteen Research to discuss: what earnings typically look like after stock market corrections, Trump's next trade war moves, money leaving the USA, recession indicators, and much more!
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April 15, 2025 • 72 mins
On this TCAF Tuesday, hear an all-new episode of What Are Your Thoughts with Downtown Josh Brown and Michael Batnick!
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April 11, 2025 • 91 mins
On episode 187 of The Compound and Friends, Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown are joined by Jenny Van Leeuwen Harrington, Chief Executive Officer of Gilman Hill Asset Management to discuss: Trump vs the bond market, navigating a stock market crash, the Super Bowl of insider trading, Jenny's favorite dividend stocks, and much more!
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April 10, 2025 • 31 mins
In this special episode, Downtown Josh Brown sits down with CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz to discuss: AI and the changing landscape of cybersecurity, Google's massive cloud security acquisition, future growth opportunities for CrowdStrike, and more!
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On this TCAF Tuesday, Downtown Josh Brown is joined by Steve Pavlick to discuss the latest on the trade war and the stock market's volatile reaction. Then, at 40:49, hear an all-new episode of What Are Your Thoughts with Josh Brown and Michael Batnick! They discuss the latest market action, how tariffs will impact American companies, recession proof stocks, and much more!
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April 4, 2025 • 74 mins
On episode 186 of The Compound and Friends, Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown are joined by Steve Quirk, Chief Brokerage Officer at Robinhood to discuss: the stocks getting hit hardest by the tariff selloff, the state of the retail investor, 24 hour trading, and much more!
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April 1, 2025 • 71 mins
On this TCAF Tuesday, hear an all-new episode of What Are Your Thoughts with Josh Brown and Michael Batnick! They discuss Liberation Day and tariffs, Mag 7 weakness, CoreWeave, AI and much more!
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March 31, 2025 • 63 mins
On episode 185 of The Compound and Friends, Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown are joined by Joe Lonsdale and Jacob Miller of Opto to discuss: entrepreneurship, AI in America, democratizing private markets, Elon and DOGE, and much more!
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March 28, 2025 • 97 mins
On episode 184 of The Compound and Friends, Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown are joined by returning guests Andrew Beer and Sam Ro to discuss: who wins in a trade war, the real value of hedge funds, liquid alts, active ETFs, and much more!
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March 25, 2025 • 110 mins
On this TCAF Tuesday, Downtown Josh Brown is joined by Barry Ritholtz, Co-founder and Chairman of Ritholtz Wealth Management to discuss his new book release "How Not to Invest". Then at 39:18, hear an all-new episode of What Are Your Thoughts with Josh Brown and Michael Batnick! They discuss the latest market moves, cybersecurity stocks, the Coreweave IPO, levered ETFs, and much more!
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March 18, 2025 • 47 mins
On episode 183 of The Compound and Friends, Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown are joined by Joe Terranova to discuss: momentum stocks, recent market volatility, Joe's ETF, and much more!
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March 14, 2025 • 79 mins
On episode 182 of The Compound and Friends, Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown are joined by Rob Arnott to discuss: the market selloff, value stocks, the evolution of the CAPE ratio, international stocks, and much more!
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March 11, 2025 • 102 mins
On this TCAF Tuesday, Josh Brown is joined by Nick Colas, co-founder of DataTrek Research, to discuss policy uncertainty, current market sentiment, the divergence in global markets, what an elevated Vix means for the market, minimum volatility strategies, and more! Then, at 37:31, hear an all-new episode of What Are Your Thoughts with Josh and Michael Batnick!
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March 7, 2025 • 90 mins
On episode 181 of The Compound and Friends, Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown are joined by Tom Lee to discuss: how bull markets end, the trade war, odds of a recession, the case for a Bitcoin reserve, Tesla’s crash, Tom’s “Granny Shots” stock picks, and much more!
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