The Compound and Friends
Hosted by Josh Brown & Michael Batnick · 19 decoded episodes · newest Oct 6, 2026
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 19
- Oct 6, 2026 · 1h 3mMarket breadth weakens as mega-cap technology keeps indexes afloatThe episode tests whether calm volatility and strong headline indexes are masking deteriorating internals, speculative risk, and growing threats to corporate moats.
- Oct 2, 2026 · 1h 24mAI spending boom meets Gen Z’s economic squeezeThe episode connects uncertainty around AI’s enormous investment cycle with the housing, inequality, and fiscal pressures shaping younger Americans’ futures.
- Sep 29, 2026 · 1h 14mAI spending tests Nvidia, markets and investor convictionThe episode connects Nvidia’s corporate strength and AI ambitions with rising yields, fragile breadth, consumer weakness and the case for staying invested.
- Sep 28, 2026 · 45 minPrivate markets enter a harder era of selection and liquidityAs private assets reach more individual investors, the episode examines whether access is expanding faster than investors’ ability to assess correlation, valuation, and manager risk.
- Sep 25, 2026 · 1h 8mBoyar finds opportunity in hated stocks and compressed valuationsThe discussion tests whether unpopular companies are genuinely impaired or merely mispriced after forced selling, AI fears, and multiple compression.
- Sep 22, 2026 · 1h 6mInvestors debate AI breadth, bond yields and Buffett’s enduring edgeThe discussion tests whether concentrated AI leadership, individual-stock mistakes and attractive Treasury yields are reshaping portfolio decisions.
- Sep 18, 2026 · 54 minAI optimism meets its credible bear casesThe discussion tests whether AI-driven earnings can sustain the market’s climb while regulation, geopolitics, and political resistance threaten the investment cycle.
- Sep 11, 2026 · 1h 8mAI borrowing puts yields, markets and Korea in focusThe episode maps how government deficits, hyperscaler financing and AI-related demand could reshape inflation, currencies, bonds and equities.
- Sep 8, 2026 · 47 minFalling P/E ratios challenge the expensive-market narrativeThe discussion tests whether rising prices signal a bubble or reflect stronger margins, earnings growth, and a broadening market.
- Sep 4, 2026 · 1h 30mAI spending tests the durability of the stock-market bull runThe conversation examines whether resilient earnings and AI investment can broaden the market rally without creating a new cycle of overbuilding and weak returns.
- Sep 1, 2026 · 1h 10mInvestors debate AI mania as software regains market leadershipThe episode tests whether AI spending reflects durable enterprise demand or speculative excess while reassessing software, cybersecurity, and executive performance.
- Aug 28, 2026 · 1h 26mAI’s infrastructure boom outruns the software economicsThe episode tests whether massive spending on chips, data centers, and private credit rests on durable demand or subsidized expectations.