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Animal Spirits Podcast · 2026-01-26 · 31 min · 4,935 words

Talk Your Book: How to Fix the Plumbing of the Financial System

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Today's Animal Spirits Talk, your book is brought to you by Chainlink. Go to Chain.link to learn more about how Chainlink is trying to create the industry standard platform for capital markets on chain and empower the majority of decentralized finance. That's Chain.link to learn more. Welcome to Animal Spirits. Spirits, a show about markets, life, and investing.

Join Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson as they talk about what they are reading, writing, and watching. All opinions expressed by Michael and Ben are solely their own opinion and do not reflect the opinion of Rydholtz Wealth Management. This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be relied upon for any investment decisions. Clients of Rydholtz Wealth Management may maintain positions in the securities discussed in this podcast. Welcome to Animal Spirits with Michael and Ben.

Michael, I think we found the use case for crypto, potentially. I think the traditional finance people, we we've talked to a handful of people who've made the shift from TradFi, which is a word I just don't like. I don't know why. TradFi doesn't do it for me. But traditional finance into crypto.

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