Spencer Jakab

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229 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2025 last heard 10 Sep

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WSJ What’s News · The Buried $150 Billion Bet Inside the Top 20 U.S. Stocks · 2 Aug 2026 podcast

And I mean – and I'll write about it in the newsletter and then I get a lot of emails and I answer them anything that's a question. matched

And people say, well, why would I want – I'd be taking currency risk and this kind of risk. matched

Like, yeah, but it's in a different currency. matched

I mean look at last year, right? matched

The US is actually one of the – matched

It was one of the worst – did well but it was one of the worst performing major markets in the world. matched

Many other markets surpassed it. matched

I mean you don't get a lot of years like that. matched

But I mean you get the good with the bad. matched

That's called diversification. matched

Obviously you can – the US is such a huge economy and big US companies are so international, right, that – matched

You're already getting a lot of it just by owning U.S. matched

companies, but you're definitely helping yourself by buying a bit of that, which is cheap and easy and one click away as opposed to paying up for one of these funds where who knows what will happen and who knows what will happen if you really need liquidity too with certain of these funds. matched

Don't say it. matched

The diversification. matched

So if anyone listening has invested in Berkshire Hathaway, for example, they'll say just ignore these earnings because they own stakes in all these companies and they go up, they go down. matched

Just what the market did. matched

Right. matched

And they own public companies too. matched

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