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Why Bother Investing Internationally?
#209 Is it worth investing outside your home country given the risk? Should you hedge currency risk? What is the impact of Chinese "A" share listed c…
Money For the Rest of Us
06/13/2018
The Biggest Market Crash Is Recyclables
#208 How a Chinese ban and careless recycling habits by households and businesses led to a market collapse in recyclables. More information, includin…
Money For the Rest of Us
06/06/2018
How Do The Mega Rich Invest?
#207 Why the mega rich don't have magical investing powers, but there are some investing attributes they possess that we can emulate. More informatio…
Money For the Rest of Us
05/30/2018
Be Bear Aware of Bank Loans
#206 Why the leveraged loan market (i.e. bank loans) is becoming more risky. What are collateralized loan obligations and how do they influence bank …
Money For the Rest of Us
05/23/2018
Is The Federal Reserve Really Printing Money?
#205 If the Federal Reserve has printed over $2 trillion dollar and given it to banks to lend, why is U.S. inflation still low? More information, inc…
Money For the Rest of Us
05/16/2018
Why Are Investment Returns So Low?
#204 How low real interest rates contribute to low returns for stocks and other risk assets. How real interest rates are determined. More information…
Money For the Rest of Us
05/09/2018
Is Investing More Like Poker or Chess?
#203 How to make better investing and life decisions. More information, including show notes, can be found here.Episode SummaryDavid asks the questio…
Money For the Rest of Us
05/02/2018
Will Your Next Car Be Electric?
#202 What are the impediments to the mass adoption of electric vehicles. More information, including show notes, can be found here.Episode SummaryOve…
Money For the Rest of Us
04/25/2018
Is Your Portfolio Unbalanced?
#201 Why most conventional portfolios make huge and often unintended bets on the stock market. How role based investing can lead to a more balanced p…
Money For the Rest of Us
04/18/2018
The Great National Debt Debate
#200 Joshua Sheats from the Radical Personal Finance podcast and I discuss our different views regarding the national debt and the severity of the U.…
Money For the Rest of Us
04/11/2018
What Kind of Money Is It?
#199 How a bank panic led to the creation of the Federal Reserve, and why having diversified sources of money can protect us in case we have a bank p…
Money For the Rest of Us
04/04/2018
Capitalism Is Creation
#198 Why save for retirement if capitalism is going to collapse and/or universal basic income will be available. How millennials can lead the next wo…
Money For the Rest of Us
03/28/2018
The Power of Less and Local
#197 Why having less things and activities gives us more freedom and happiness. Why low probability risks are unacceptable if the consequences affect…
Money For the Rest of Us
03/21/2018
How To Survive Financially
#196 Why relying on averages is dangerous given our fate is often determined by extreme events and how we react as financial markets, the economy and…
Money For the Rest of Us
03/14/2018
Has A Trade War Begun?
#195 Why duties and other actions are necessary to address trade disputes, but across the board tariffs are a blunt instrument that can lead to a dev…
Money For the Rest of Us
03/07/2018
Four Investment Lessons From Warren Buffett
#194 Four investment lessons from Berkshire Hathaway's fiscal year 2017 Shareholder Letter with additional insights from Howard Marks and Seth Klarma…
Money For the Rest of Us
02/28/2018
Why Plan If Life Is So Unpredictable?
#193 How planning helps us avoid catastrophic errors while maintaining flexibility and margins of safety allow us to thrive even if our plans don't w…
Money For the Rest of Us
02/21/2018
Is Anything Scarce Anymore?
#192 In this episode we explore scarcity. Artificial scarcity created by laws and real scarcity created by our evolving lifestyles and economy. We'll…
Money For the Rest of Us
02/14/2018
Has The Bond Bear Market Begun?
#191 Why interest rates are rising and what could happen to bonds, stocks and the economy if rates returned to more normal levels. More information, …
Money For the Rest of Us
02/07/2018
How To Keep Up With Inflation
#190 What investments are best for maintaining purchasing power relative to inflation. Using the pencil as an example, how inflationary and deflation…
Money For the Rest of Us
01/31/2018