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The Extraordinary Impact of Cities
#171 Why cities are the primary driver of economic growth and why do they outlive companies.See Privacy Policy at link and Calif…
Money For the Rest of Us
09/06/2017
Are Financial Markets Efficient?
#170 Why investment markets can be both efficient and inefficient depending on the environment, and how that should impact your investing.See Privacy…
Money For the Rest of Us
08/30/2017
Eclipse Special: The Sound of the Totality From Idaho
A short episode on the August 2017 solar eclipse as it happened. See Privacy Policy at link and California Privacy Notice at ht…
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08/23/2017
The Debt Ceiling—What Happens If the U.S. Defaults
#169 What could happen if the U.S. Congress doesn't raise the debt ceiling and defaults on U.S. financial obligations, and why does Congress wait unt…
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08/16/2017
Is Life More Difficult For Millennials?
#168 How being a millennial is both different and the same from young adults of earlier generations.See Privacy Policy at link a…
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08/09/2017
Is Bitcoin Better At Money Than The Dollar?
#167 Why bitcoin is a compelling speculative diversifier and how it has been a better store of value than both the U.S. dollar and gold.See Privacy P…
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08/02/2017
Do We Really Need Growth?
#166 Why enterprises, industries, and economies can't grow at all costs but need to enrich humanity and strive for permanence and sustainability thro…
Money For the Rest of Us
07/26/2017
Why Do We Invest? It's Not Just For Return
#165 How corporations evaluate and use investment capital provided by individuals. Why companies find it easier to buy back stock rather than invest …
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07/19/2017
Optionality—When To Keep Your Options Open and When To Commit
#164 How to use the asymmetric payoff of options, trial and error, and commitments to better yourself financially and in other areas of your life.See…
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07/12/2017
Vacation Special: A Conversation With Roger Whitney, The Retirement Answerman
A conversation with Roger Whitney about retirement investing, asset allocation, active versus passive management, luck versus skill, behavioral finan…
Money For the Rest of Us
07/05/2017
Is There An Indexing Bubble?
#163 How an indexing bubble is manifest, why most active managers underperform and how individuals can structure their own quasi index fund that outp…
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06/28/2017
Is Inflation A Good Thing?
#162 What causes inflation and why do central banks allow it to persist instead of having a 0% inflation target.See Privacy Policy at link
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06/21/2017
What You Need To Know About Retirement Calculators
#161 How retirement planning and retirement spending calculators work and what are some of their flaws. Why figuring out how much money you will have…
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06/14/2017
Why Ethical Consumption Is Myth
#160 How cost, complexity and an unachievable standard keeps us from consuming ethically while the stories we tell ourselves make us feel good about …
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06/07/2017
Vacation Special: A Conversation with Michael Port
In this interview with Michael Port, we discuss asset allocation, business, healthcare, minimalist investing, roboadvisors, our emotional relationshi…
Money For the Rest of Us
05/31/2017
What You Need To Know About Volatility
#159 What is volatility, what determines it and how to invest in it. But should you?See Privacy Policy at link and California Pr…
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05/24/2017
How To Invest Like A Cockroach
#158 How reserves, slack and simple rules of thumb help us deal with radical uncertainty. Why the next financial crisis is unlikely to be like the la…
Money For the Rest of Us
05/17/2017
The Most Important Economic Question Of Our Time
#157 Why the likelihood of a future fiscal crisis sparked by the national debt depends on whether there is a limited or an unlimited supply of money.…
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05/10/2017
Your Job Or Half Your Business Could Be Gone Tomorrow
#156 How to gain a personal competitive advantage in an evolving job and business environment. This episode of Money For the Rest of Us is sponsored …
Money For the Rest of Us
05/03/2017
Clues To The Next Financial Crisis
#155 How panic caused the great financial crisis and what to look for to see if it is happening again.See Privacy Policy at link
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04/26/2017