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How the Public Sector Pension Crisis Will Impact You

How the Public Sector Pension Crisis Will Impact You

Why most state and municipal pension plans are underfunded and why that could lead to higher taxes and reduced government services. Why participants …

How to Better Manage Risk

How to Better Manage Risk

What are the three steps to better manage risk and get what you really want.Topics covered in this episode include:Why goods and services that lessen…

How Capitalism Gets Off Track

How Capitalism Gets Off Track

How inequitable business models like those in the gig economy can lead to a financial crisis, more regulation, and doubts about the viability of the …

Using Momentum Investing and Trend Following

Using Momentum Investing and Trend Following

How momentum investing works, what are some of the challenges in implementing it, and how can individuals use momentum in their investment portfolios…

Invest Like a Tesla

Invest Like a Tesla

How the composition of Tesla's autopilot software gives clues to how we should invest, recognizing there are no perfect algorithms for driving or inv…

What Happens If U.S. Interest Rates Turn Negative?

What Happens If U.S. Interest Rates Turn Negative?

What are negative interest rates, why they could come to the U.S. and what investors can do about it.In this episode you will learn:How negative inte…

Should You Invest In Gold?

Should You Invest In Gold?

With gold at a six-year high, is now the time to invest? What determines the price of gold and what are ways one can invest in this precious metal? W…

Better Not Bigger, Circular Not Linear - How the Global Economy Is Changing

Better Not Bigger, Circular Not Linear - How the Global Economy Is Changing

How a less energy intensive and more regenerative economy will allow the developing the world to advance without breaching ecological boundaries.In t…

Is Value Investing Dead?

Is Value Investing Dead?

Why has value investing underperformed growth investing for over twelve years and how to position your portfolio for the eventual rebound in value in…

Is This Why Interest Rates Are Falling and the Global Economy Slowing?

Is This Why Interest Rates Are Falling and the Global Economy Slowing?

Has the off-shore dollar market in terms of dollar financing and currency hedging gotten so big that it can dictate Federal Reserve monetary policy i…

Will The Libra Cryptocurrency Revolutionize Money?

Will The Libra Cryptocurrency Revolutionize Money?

Will Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency transform money as we know it or is it "the most invasive and dangerous form of surveillance devised thus far?" …

How Financialization Pushes Up Home Prices

How Financialization Pushes Up Home Prices

How the demand by corporations and individuals to turn single-family homes into rental units is pushing up home prices, making it more difficult for …

It’s Not Just Wealth That Compounds

It’s Not Just Wealth That Compounds

How the power of compounding applies not only to wealth, but influence, expertise, and creativity. How non-monetary investments can lead to greater m…

Will Artificial Intelligence (AI) Change Investing?

Will Artificial Intelligence (AI) Change Investing?

How does artificial intelligence and machine learning work and what are some examples of how individual investors can use AI in their investing.In th…

With Interest Rates Falling, Why Do You Own Bonds?

With Interest Rates Falling, Why Do You Own Bonds?

How an asset class such as bonds can play different roles in your portfolio depending on your investment philosophy. In this episode you will le…

Should You Be 100% Invested In Stocks?

Should You Be 100% Invested In Stocks?

What are the pros and cons of having your entire investment portfolio invested in stocks versus a multi-asset class portfolio.In this episode you’ll …

Are IPOs the New Ponzi Scheme?

Are IPOs the New Ponzi Scheme?

How venture capital funded startups run up massive losses while justifying premium valuations using creative profitability metrics. These private com…

How To Become Wealthy

How To Become Wealthy

The three-step plan for becoming financially wealthy and how to be wealthy without the money.In this episode you’ll learn:The results of two recent s…

Impact Investing and Intentionality

Impact Investing and Intentionality

How individuals can have a positive impact while earning a good return investing. What are some examples of socially responsible and impact investmen…

Investment Rule One—Avoid Ruin

Investment Rule One—Avoid Ruin

How reducing exposure to a catastrophic event, such as running out of money during retirement, is a better strategy than trying to accurately predict…