{"podcast":{"title":"The Meb Faber Show - Better Investing","slug":"the-meb-faber-show-better-investing-743157","podcast_index_feed_id":743157,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/TIFM6133783130","website_url":"https://www.themebfabershow.com/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/dfd9a908-428f-11ee-a9c5-6fac729c68a0/image/1400x1400.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"The Idea Farm","episode_count":708,"summary":"Ready to grow your wealth through smarter investing decisions? With The Meb Faber Show, bestselling author, entrepreneur, and investment fund manager, Meb Faber, brings you insights on today’s markets and the art of investing. Featuring some of the top investment professionals in the world as his guests, Meb will help you interpret global equity, bond, and commodity markets just like the pros. Whether it’s smart beta, trend following, value investing, or any other timely market topic, each week you’ll hear real market wisdom from the smartest minds in investing today. Better investing starts here. For more information on Meb, please visit MebFaber.com. For more on Cambria Investment Management, visit CambriaInvestments.com.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-24T16:19:52.677138+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-meb-faber-show-better-investing-743157"},"episode":{"title":"Aswath Damodaran on the AI Spending Spree: Bubble, Boom, or Both? | #619","slug":"aswath-damodaran-on-the-ai-spending-spree-bubble-boom-or-both-619","published_at":"2026-02-27T09:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-meb-faber-show-better-investing-743157/aswath-damodaran-on-the-ai-spending-spree-bubble-boom-or-both-619","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-meb-faber-show-better-investing-743157","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/TIFM4108101293.mp3?updated=1775780634","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/TIFM4108101293.mp3?updated=1775780634","summary":"My guest today is Aswath Damodaran, a professor at NYU, where he teaches corporate finance and equity valuation. In today’s episode, Professor Damodaran explains why he trimmed two Magnificent Seven stocks. He digs into AI’s real impact on valuations and moats, why big software incumbents face an Innovator’s Dilemma, and why the biggest risk isn’t tech spending itself, but overconfidence and debt-fueled capex that could ripple beyond tech. He also weighs in on corporate Bitcoin balance sheets, sports franchises as “trophy assets” driven by billionaire demand rather than cash flows, and the rise of prediction markets. (0:00) Starts (0:34) Professor Damodaran on the Magnificent Seven (7:26) OpenAI's growth, AI's impact on valuations, and software industries (16:07) High capex investment risks (23:10) Market timing (33:43) Trust and the rise of gold and silver (45:12) Cryptocurrencies on company balance sheets (47:42) Sports franchises (52:27) Prediction markets ----- Follow Meb on X, LinkedIn and YouTube For detailed show notes, click here To learn more about our funds and follow us, subscribe to our mailing list or visit us at cambriainvestments.com ----- Follow The Idea Farm: X | LinkedIn | Instagram | TikTok ----- Interested in sponsoring the show? Email us at Feedback@TheMebFaberShow.com ----- Past guests include Ed Thorp, Richard Thaler, Jeremy Grantham, Joel Greenblatt, Campbell Harvey, Ivy Zelman, Kathryn Kaminski, Jason Calacanis, Whitney Baker, Aswath Damodaran, Howard Marks, Tom Barton, and many more. ----- Meb's invested in some awesome startups that have passed along discounts to our listeners. Check them out here! -----Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant (https://thepodcastconsultant.com). Learn more about…","meta_description":"My guest today is Aswath Damodaran, a professor at NYU, where he teaches corporate finance and equity valuation. In today’s episode, Professor Damodaran e…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3741,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-meb-faber-show-better-investing-743157/episodes/aswath-damodaran-on-the-ai-spending-spree-bubble-boom-or-both-619/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-meb-faber-show-better-investing-743157/aswath-damodaran-on-the-ai-spending-spree-bubble-boom-or-both-619.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}