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Is Inflation A Good Thing?

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

What You Need To Know About Retirement Calculators

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…

Why Ethical Consumption Is Myth

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 …

Vacation Special: A Conversation with Michael Port

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…

What You Need To Know About Volatility

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…

How To Invest Like A Cockroach

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…

The Most Important Economic Question Of Our Time

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.…

Your Job Or Half Your Business Could Be Gone Tomorrow

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 …

Clues To The Next Financial Crisis

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

Do Homeowner Tax Breaks Cause Homelessness?

Do Homeowner Tax Breaks Cause Homelessness?

#154 How a transitioning economy, government regulation and tax policy have contributed to stagnating wages, rising housing costs, and homelessness.S…

Will Social Security Go Bankrupt?

Will Social Security Go Bankrupt?

#153 Why Social Security will not collapse and the four actions government can take to make sure it won’t.See Privacy Policy at link

You Know Less Than You Think

You Know Less Than You Think

#152 How simple rules, just-in-time learning and checking your understanding can help you make better financial decisions.See Privacy Policy at https…

Amazon Impacts Everything

Amazon Impacts Everything

#151 How even index fund investors have a big stake in the Amazon revolution.See Privacy Policy at link and California Privacy N…

Finding Your Perfect Match

Finding Your Perfect Match

#150 How to navigate matching markets where price alone doesn’t determine the outcome.See Privacy Policy at link and California …

Do You Have Enough To Retire?

Do You Have Enough To Retire?

#149 How to estimate how long your assets will last in retirement and the steps you can take to take make them last longer.See Privacy Policy at http…

Is Your Financial Advisor Loyal To You?

Is Your Financial Advisor Loyal To You?

#148 Why some financial advisors must show undivided loyalty to you while others can have undisclosed conflicts of interest. How to tell the differen…

Is Infrastructure A Good Investment?

Is Infrastructure A Good Investment?

#147 How to invest in infrastructure assets and why there is a perpetual infrastructure "crisis".See Privacy Policy at link and …

How To Decide What To Buy

How To Decide What To Buy

#146 How to optimize your purchase decisions and why eliminating negatives can increase happiness more than buying more stuff.See Privacy Policy at h…

People Like Us Invest Like This

People Like Us Invest Like This

#145 Our view of the world dictates how we should and should not invest.See Privacy Policy at link and California Privacy Notice…

Trade Deficits Aren't Always Bad. Trade Wars Are

Trade Deficits Aren't Always Bad. Trade Wars Are

#144 What causes trade deficits and how they can both help and hurt a country's economy.See Privacy Policy at link and Californi…