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How, When, and Why Should You Rebalance Your Investment Portfolio?

How, When, and Why Should You Rebalance Your Investment Portfolio?

Why bother rebalancing your investment portfolio and what is the best method for doing so.Topics covered include:How a target asset allocation can ge…

Which Money Is Crazier: The U.S. Dollar or Bitcoin?

Which Money Is Crazier: The U.S. Dollar or Bitcoin?

We compare the U.S. dollar with Bitcoin on their key attributes to determine which is better for transactions and preserving wealth, which is most ab…

Now Is the Best Time Ever to Be an Individual Investor

Now Is the Best Time Ever to Be an Individual Investor

What are the advantages and disadvantages individual investors have relative to professional investors. How individual investors can capitalize on th…

The Pros and Cons of Infinite Banking and Whole Life Insurance

The Pros and Cons of Infinite Banking and Whole Life Insurance

How permanent life insurance can be an effective tool for retirement planning.Topics covered include:What is the difference between term and whole li…

Is This the Key to Wealth, Freedom and Happiness?

Is This the Key to Wealth, Freedom and Happiness?

How owning fewer, more permanent things can lead to greater freedom and continued economic growth.Topics covered include:How a railroad company issue…

How to Profit From Carbon Investing While Combatting Climate Change

How to Profit From Carbon Investing While Combatting Climate Change

How the carbon emissions allowances and carbon offset markets are structured and how to invest in them.Topics covered include:How much greater are th…

How to Invest in Startups on Equity Crowdfunding Platforms

How to Invest in Startups on Equity Crowdfunding Platforms

The risks and opportunities of investing in startups on equity crowdfunding platforms.Topics covered include:Why do individual investors now have mor…

Forward and Reverse Mortgages: When To Take Them Out and When to Pay Them Off

Forward and Reverse Mortgages: When To Take Them Out and When to Pay Them Off

How to decide when to take out a home mortgage and whether to pay it off early. How reverse mortgages can be a helpful retirement tool.Topics covered…

Listener Q&A: Individual stocks, housing bubble, crypto, retirement and more

Listener Q&A: Individual stocks, housing bubble, crypto, retirement and more

We answer over a dozen questions from listeners on investing, housing, retirement, business, podcast production, and more.Topics discussed include:Th…

Should You Invest in Frontier Markets?

Should You Invest in Frontier Markets?

What are the risks and opportunities of investing in frontier equity markets?Topics covered include:What are the criteria used to determine whether a…

Should You Buy an Electric Car or Truck?
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Should You Buy an Electric Car or Truck?

What are the pros and cons of owning an electric vehicle (EV) compared with an internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle. Are electric vehicles worth …

Investing In Water

Investing In Water

What are ways to invest in water and is it an attractive investment?Topics covered include:How water rights work and how they have been overallocated…

Why Should You Care About Shadow Banking?

Why Should You Care About Shadow Banking?

Half of the global financial system is made up of shadow banks. You have probably already used one. What are shadow banks and what to be wary of when…

Why The Productivity Slowdown Could Lead to Lower Living Standards

Why The Productivity Slowdown Could Lead to Lower Living Standards

Why productivity growth is key to creating wealth. Why U.S. productivity growth is slowing, and what we can do to increase business and personal prod…

Is Another Great Inflation Coming? Best Inflation Hedges

Is Another Great Inflation Coming? Best Inflation Hedges

How today's inflationary environment is similar and different from the great inflation of the 1970s. What are the best assets to protect your portfol…

How To Overcome Investing Fears

How To Overcome Investing Fears

Seven ways to manage fear in order to improve your investing. How fear can be beneficial.Topics covered include:Why fear can be both helpful and harm…

Climate Change, ESG, and What Should Investors Do?

Climate Change, ESG, and What Should Investors Do?

How businesses, households, governments, asset managers, and investors interact in unpredictable ways to address the risks and opportunities related …

How to Make Money With Dai, BlockFi and the Evolving DeFi Ecosystem

How to Make Money With Dai, BlockFi and the Evolving DeFi Ecosystem

What is decentralized finance and how it is seeking to solve the shortcomings of centralized finance. How BlockFi and MakerDAO, early entrants in the…

Inflation, the National Debt and the U.S. Dollar - What Could Go Wrong?

Inflation, the National Debt and the U.S. Dollar - What Could Go Wrong?

With a ballooning U.S. federal budget deficit, a growing national debt, and double digit increases in the money supply, is it time to bet against the…

Why in the World Do You Own Bonds?

Why in the World Do You Own Bonds?

With interest rates rising does it still make sense to own bonds? Yes. This episode explores the role of bonds including why they are more effective …