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Animal Spirits:

On today’s show, we discuss:

• My Year-End Stock Market Forecast

• Is It a Bubble?

• The Everyday Investors Hedging Against an AI Bubble

• The Last Human Edge

• Low Inflation Does Not Mean Americans are Fine

• OpenAI Ends ‘Vesting Cliff’ for New Employees in Compensation-Policy Change

• Bezos and Musk Race to Bring Data Centers to Space

• 2026 Housing Market Outlook

• The Deep End: 2025 Alternative Investments Review

• Streamers are raising prices at an astonishing rate — here’s how much more you’re paying

• Egyptian Theater

• Daniel Day-Lewis leads growing list of actors defending Paul Dano against Quentin Tarantino criticism

Charts:

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Recommendations:

• Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

• Train Dreams

• One Battle After Another

• The Shining

• The Kid Stays In The Picture

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