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Hello, I’m Howard. I’ve been a financial industry entrepreneur and investor for over 20 years. I am a General Partner at Social Leverage - we invest in seed stage software companies. I was a co-founder of Stocktwits and a seed investor in Robinhood and Etoro. On this podcast, you will hear interviews with great entrepreneurs, investors, venture capitalists, traders, and friends about their companies, their track records, and their new fave ideas and trends. This includes best ideas, worst in ...
 
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I couldn’t be more excited to have my good friend Downtown Josh Brown on the show! Josh and I go way back to the early, early days of Stocktwits. He’s built what’s probably the biggest financial media brand outside of CNBCq and has managed to thrive amidst the people who like to hate on people who are doing well on social media; so I’ve got lots an…
 
The past week and a half was pretty tough – everyone on Twitter went from Ukraine war expert to Bank run expert after the Silicon Valley Bank debacle. There were even rumors of bank CEOs flying in to visit old man Warren Buffet in Omaha over the weekend before last. I’m no expert, and I honestly have know idea how all this plays out in the very sho…
 
On this special episode of Live from The Compound, Jesse Eisinger (senior editor and reporter at ProPublica) joins Michael Batnick and Josh Brown to discuss UBS acquiring Credit Suisse, ProPublica’s new insider trading expose, and much more! Jesse Eisinger is an American journalist and author. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in …
 
On episode 84 of The Compound and Friends, Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown are joined by Dan McMurtrie to discuss Credit Suisse, Silicon Valley Bank, treasury yields, short sellers, credit default swaps, the real reason Signature Bank got taken out, and much more! This episode is sponsored by Kraneshares. Learn more at https://kraneshares.c…
 
There’s a massive unspoken epidemic going on globally in men’s health right now – low T-scores; and practically no one is talking about it. Lots of ‘youts’ are running around on an empty tank and don’t even know it. It’s an interesting and very important topic; and it's at the top of a lot of people’s minds, even if it’s a bit taboo to talk about. …
 
On this special episode of Live from The Compound, Samir Kaji (CEO and co-founder of Allocate) joins Michael Batnick and Josh Brown to discuss the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and the impact it could have on the banking system and the stock market. Samir Kaji was a Senior Managing Director at First Republic from 2012-2021 where he founded and le…
 
This week, criminal justice correspondent Josie Duffy Rice dives into America’s obsession with prosecuting children. From 19th century houses of refuge to modern day detention centers, we comb through the tangled braids of juvenile incarceration, tough on crime fallacies, as well as criminality and its dark shadow of capitalism. Please take care wh…
 
On episode 83 of The Compound and Friends, Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown are joined by Carleton English and Joe Fahmy to discuss moving averages, rate hikes, consumer spending, what Cathie Wood got right (and wrong), Silicon Valley Bank, Silvergate, and much more! This episode is sponsored by Invesco QQQ. Learn more at invesco.com/qqq. Ch…
 
In this episode, I’m back in the hot seat again while my producer Knut grills me on what I’m calling my ‘errors of omission’. It’s part of my plan this year to cover various points in my career. Previously I've discussed details on Wallstrip and Stocktwits. Both of those episodes answered a lot of the questions I've been asked over the years. But o…
 
On episode 82 of The Compound and Friends, Nick Maggiulli and Downtown Josh Brown are joined by Dan Nathan to discuss earnings season, yields, mortgage rates, Buffett and buybacks, shorting private equity, world stock markets in 1899 vs today, how millionaires invest their money, the Silvergate collapse, and much more! Check out the latest in finan…
 
This week, survival correspondent Blair Braverman tells Sarah the story of a Supertramp. In 1996, Jon Krakauer's book Into the Wild described a young man, Chris McCandless, who changed his name, walked into the Alaskan bush, and died after mistakenly eating a toxic plant. Or did he? Now, Sarah and Blair talk about the McCandless archive and its leg…
 
I’m excited to have Helene Meisler back on the show! She was last here in June, and with all that’s been going on in the markets lately it felt time to check back in. I’ve been following her work since the start of TheStreet.com – she knows her stuff and loves talking about the markets. She’s a connoisseur of the chart – what I like to call ‘chart …
 
You're Wrong About is going back on tour! We're doing a bunch of live shows in North America—me, producer and musician Carolyn Kendrick, and some fabulous guests—and we hope you come think about some stuff, and also that you laugh. Doing the four shows we did last September was the highlight of my year, nay, my post-2019 life. And just being in a r…
 
On episode 81 of The Compound and Friends, Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown are joined by Jay Woods and Dan Russo to discuss the New York Stock Exchange, technical analysis, the Dow Jones Transportation Average, Bitcoin, recession calls, stock/bond correlation, what drives Elon Musk, and much more! Check out the latest in financial blogger f…
 
I’m excited to have my friend Nate Cooper, partner at Barrel Ventures, on the show as our second in-studio guest. Nate invests in seed stage companies in the food and beverage space. He’s excited about anything pre-farm to post fork and everything in between. Nate views our food ecosystem as broken, with a multi-trillion dollar opportunity waiting …
 
This week, a tale of two Shawns/Seans, their impossible dream, and the file sharing service that lived fast, died young, and helped create the internet as we know it. Plus, Metallica. Here's where to find Niko: Website Newsletter Twitter Resources cited in the show introduction: The Racial Roots Behind the Term "Nappy" on NPR's Code Switch https://…
 
On episode 80 of The Compound and Friends, Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown are joined by Brian Belski to discuss earnings season, recession fears, market sectors, PE expansion out of a bear market, small cap stocks, consumer staples, Bob Iger getting things done, Microsoft vs Google, and much more! This episode is sponsored by Advisorshares…
 
As I mentioned when I covered how I built Wallstrip, I’m doing more origin stories over the next year. I’m covering my own projects as well as those of the ten or fifteen people from the companies I’ve loved and the products I’ve used in Web 2. There were mostly good exits, but there were also a few that we learned from. In today’s episode I’m back…
 
On episode 79 of The Compound and Friends, Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown are joined by Jason Hsu to discuss the latest FOMC meeting, the Chinese market, hard vs soft data, the housing market, earnings for Apple, Amazon, and Google, the Adani rout, and much more! This episode is sponsored by Kraneshares. Visit https://chinalastnight.com fo…
 
If you geek-out on capital, money, and podcasts like I do, you're going to love this discussion with my friend Ted Seides, founder of Capital Allocators. Ted’s built an ecosystem that includes advisory services, education, events and podcasts. I was introduced to Ted a few years back by Jan van Eck, who’s also been on my podcast. Ted went to Yale, …
 
In this episode, Carolyn and Sarah follow Karen from the height of her fame through her struggle to find independence, her attempts at eating disorder recovery, and finally to her death on February 4, 1983, when she was just 32 years old. Then it's time to sing a song. We extensively discuss eating disorders, disordered eating, and everything that …
 
On episode 78 of The Compound and Friends, Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown are joined by Nathan Vardi to discuss Nathan's book (For Blood and Money), the biotech landscape, hedge fund returns, the stock market GOAT, venture capital, why the market is rallying, and much more! To learn more about Future Proof, visit: https://futureproof.advis…
 
I’m excited to have creator Trung Phan on the show today. He’s mastered Twitter, even getting Elon Musk to talk to him, and that’s impressive. Trung’s one of the funniest and interesting feeds I follow on Twitter – covering business, the media, and tech. I wanted to find out how it feels to be in the center of a hurricane of memes and pick his brai…
 
Join us for a Valentine's Day live stream, presented by Moment. We'll be joined by Jamie Loftus and we'll be serenaded by Carolyn Kendrick. It's a You're Wrong About Valentine's Day Variety Show. February 14th 5 PM Pacific, 8 PM Eastern, 9:30 PM Newfoundland Tickets are $10, or $15 if you want to stick around for a Q & A. https://www.moment.co/your…
 
On episode 77 of The Compound and Friends, Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown are joined by Doug Boneparth and Phil Huber to discuss alts, bonds over stocks, the probability of a recession, ETF flows, Schwab's double downgrade, why Bill Ackman cares about Sam Bankman-Fried, Einhorn's turnaround, who's going to buy WWE, rising interest rates, a…
 
In today’s episode I’m talking to a friend of mine, Pranav Kanade, who happens to work for another really good friend of mine, Jan van Eck. Pranav was in the financial industry for a while, and like many, went down the crypto rabbit hole a couple of years ago. Jan, who’s a good friend, mentor, and a legend in the financial industry, went down the c…
 
Extry! Extry! New podcast by Josie Duffy Rice! — In 1968, five Black girls escaped from the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children, a so-called “reform school” outside of Montgomery, Alabama. These girls were not the first children to run away from the institution, which everyone called Mt. Meigs. Children tried to escape all the time, desper…
 
Long ago and oh so far away, Carolyn and Sarah fell in love with Karen Carpenter when they saw her drum. We examine her meteoric rise. CONTENT WARNING: Karen Carpenter died in 1983 of complications from an eating disorder. Most of our eating disorder discussion will take place in Part II, but we never quite get away from the topic here either. Plea…
 
On episode 76 of The Compound and Friends, Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown are joined by Callie Cox to discuss the latest CPI data, why Michael's feeling a little bullish, calling the Fed's bluff, chances of a soft landing, retail investor sentiment, and much more! This episode is sponsored by Composer. To learn more, visit https://bit.ly/c…
 
No, you haven’t entered the Twilight Zone. Yes, I’m the host of Panic with Friends, but in today’s special episode, I’m the guest. My producer Knut Jensen has turned the tables and put me in the hot seat. With so many questions about how and why I started Wallstrip, I felt it was time to lay it all out. And hopefully this answers a lot of those que…
 
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