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Eric Balchunas

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
709 total appearances

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The Compound and Friends
The Investor Utopia is Here with Eric Balchunas

And I think it's, you're so right.

The Compound and Friends
The Investor Utopia is Here with Eric Balchunas

You had people buying oil stocks for Trump's first term because he was on the campaign trail saying things like drill, baby, drill.

The Compound and Friends
The Investor Utopia is Here with Eric Balchunas

It didn't f***ing mean anything.

The Compound and Friends
The Investor Utopia is Here with Eric Balchunas

Oil was the worst performing sector in the market.

The Compound and Friends
The Investor Utopia is Here with Eric Balchunas

And clean energy crushed under Trump.

The Compound and Friends
The Investor Utopia is Here with Eric Balchunas

It makes no sense.

The Compound and Friends
The Investor Utopia is Here with Eric Balchunas

So if you were allocating like, oh, this is my Trump basket and then this is my Hillary basket.

The Compound and Friends
The Investor Utopia is Here with Eric Balchunas

It's almost, it's astrology.

The Compound and Friends
The Investor Utopia is Here with Eric Balchunas

It is.

The Compound and Friends
The Investor Utopia is Here with Eric Balchunas

Whereas this is like, do you think Trump wins or do you think he loses?

The Compound and Friends
The Investor Utopia is Here with Eric Balchunas

And if you think he wins, how much are you willing to risk?

The Compound and Friends
The Investor Utopia is Here with Eric Balchunas

Yeah.

The Compound and Friends
The Investor Utopia is Here with Eric Balchunas

Or how much do you want to make?

The Compound and Friends
The Investor Utopia is Here with Eric Balchunas

Here's what you'll have to risk.

The Compound and Friends
The Investor Utopia is Here with Eric Balchunas

Hold on, before the silly season- Chalamet breaks up with Jenner.

The Compound and Friends
The Investor Utopia is Here with Eric Balchunas

Yeah, what's the name of Tara Swift's baby?

The Compound and Friends
The Investor Utopia is Here with Eric Balchunas

The question of whether or not they'll come in handy is going to be a function of the amount of liquidity.

The Compound and Friends
The Investor Utopia is Here with Eric Balchunas

Like if there's enough people that are willing to make these bets, which I'm not sure about, it seems like right now there might be for some things and not for others.

The Compound and Friends
The Investor Utopia is Here with Eric Balchunas

It's a lot of sports.

The Compound and Friends
The Investor Utopia is Here with Eric Balchunas

So we had the CEO Schwab on stage and we asked him like, would you rule out ever having prediction markets?