Still Spending Like There’s No Tomorrow

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Join Downtown Josh Brown and Michael Batnick for another round of What Are Your Thoughts? On this week’s episode, Josh and Michael discuss the biggest topics in investing and finance, including:

►Rising Rates Hurt – “Investors fear unsustainably high interest rates will spark bank-loan defaults”

►Utilities Crash – Utilities are underperforming the S&P 500 32% YTD.

►Lower Lows – “No matter how stocks close today, the most benchmarked index in the world has set lower lows for almost two straight weeks.”

►Is Twitter Worth Zero? – Linda has a big meeting this Thursday…

►A New Regime – “We are back in a pre-98 regime…”

►Consumers Still LOLing – “Americans Are Still Spending Like There’s No Tomorrow”

►Make The Case

►Mystery Chart

and more!

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