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How ETFs Are Changing
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How ETFs Are Changing

How regulatory changes could lead to a boom in new ETFs, including actively managed ETFs. Why ETFs continue to be one of the most innovative, cost ef…

Don't Retire, Settle Instead

Don't Retire, Settle Instead

How to find your unique work that can bring satisfaction and income before and during the traditional retirement years.Topics discussed in this episo…

Are You Over Diversified?

Are You Over Diversified?

Is it possible to be too diversified and how can you tell? Why Warren Buffet thinks diversification is protection against ignorance.Topics covered in…

BONUS - Audiobook Excerpt from Money for the Rest of Us: 10 Questions to Master Successful Investing

BONUS - Audiobook Excerpt from Money for the Rest of Us: 10 Questions to Master Successful Investing

David's book Money for the Rest of Us: 10 Questions to Master Successful Investing is now available (at least the e-book version). To celebrate, here…

10 Questions To Master Successful Investing

10 Questions To Master Successful Investing

What are the timeless principles we can follow in order to become better investors. Topics covered in this episode include:How a book's permanen…

What is an ETN? - Understanding Exchange Traded Notes

What is an ETN? - Understanding Exchange Traded Notes

What are the benefits and risks of investing in exchange-traded notes (ETNs) compared with ETFs.Topics covered include:How big is the market for ETNs…

Is Inflation Measured Wrong?

Is Inflation Measured Wrong?

Why some analysts believe the Consumer Price Index formula understates inflation while others believe the CPI formula overstates inflation. What real…

Financial Independence Is a Choice
FI

Financial Independence Is a Choice

Why true financial independence means eliminating financial vulnerability including not being overly reliant on stock market appreciation.Topics cove…

Repo Rates Soared—Here's Why It Matters

Repo Rates Soared—Here's Why It Matters

How a liquidity crunch in the short-term lending markets sent interest rates soaring. Why this is a huge blunder on the part of the Federal Reserve, …

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?" …