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What if the World Stopped Shopping?
How to solve the conundrum that consumption reductions lead to economic disasters while benefiting the environment.Topics covered include:Why consump…
Money For the Rest of Us
12/07/2022
Where to Invest Your Cash Savings for Higher Yields
What are the best options for safely investing cash.Topics covered include:High-yield savings accountsCertificates of DepositsGovernment BondsMoney M…
Money For the Rest of Us
11/30/2022
Is Emerging and Frontier Markets Investing Still Worth It? - with Asha Mehta
Camden and David converse with Asha Mehta, Managing Partner & CIO at Global Delta Capital about the bullish case for emerging and frontier market…
Money For the Rest of Us
11/23/2022
Is Cryptocurrency Dead? Will the FTX Fallout Kill Crypto?
How the bankruptcy of FTX, the world's third-largest crypto exchange, undermines trust in cryptocurrency and decentralized finance, making it even mo…
Money For the Rest of Us
11/16/2022
What Is the IMF and Why Is It Controversial?
How the International Monetary Fund, the world's economic firefighter, works for global monetary cooperation and prosperity while using its own made-…
Money For the Rest of Us
11/09/2022
Is Success Due to Hard Work, Talent, or Luck?
How to survive in a world where luck and randomness play a pivotal role.Topics covered include:What are power lawsWhat are the narrative fallacy and …
Money For the Rest of Us
11/02/2022
Worry-Free Retirement Investing
How to use laddered inflation-indexed bonds (i.e., TIPS), CDs, fixed annuities, and fixed index annuities to meet retirement living ex…
Money For the Rest of Us
10/26/2022
Annie Duke on Better Investing and the Danger of Grit
In Episode 406, David and Camden visit with Annie Duke about how to better manage our investment portfolios including when and what to sell. We also …
Money For the Rest of Us
10/19/2022
When Volatility Spikes, Financial Things Break - The Case of UK Gilts and Pensions
What is volatility and what causes it to rise and fall? How volatility itself contributes to more volatility such as in the example of the chaotic UK…
Money For the Rest of Us
10/12/2022
Why Is the U.S. Dollar So Strong? Will It Continue?
What has caused the U.S. dollar's currency exchange rate to be the strongest in twenty years? How a strong dollar leads to slower global economic gro…
Money For the Rest of Us
09/28/2022
The Pandemic Might Be "Over," but Not the Repercussions
How risk perceptions and actions have changed over several years of the pandemic. How the pandemic's impacts continue to affect politics, the economy…
Money For the Rest of Us
09/21/2022
Why Student Debt Is So High and Why Forgiving It Doesn't Fix the Problem
What are the drivers that lead to higher student loan balances? Why a one-time student loan forgiveness program doesn't solve the problem of increasi…
Money For the Rest of Us
09/14/2022
Why Diversifying Your Portfolio Feels So Awful
Warren Buffet said, "Diversification makes very little sense for anyone that knows what they’re doing." He also said, "Diversification is a protectio…
Money For the Rest of Us
09/07/2022
What If High Inflation Doesn't End? How To Invest If High Inflation Stays
How economic wars, pandemics, and worker shortages could lead to years of high structural inflation. What needs to happen to avoid this dire inflatio…
Money For the Rest of Us
08/31/2022
Unintended Consequences Impact Everything
We explore examples of positive and negative unintended consequences, what causes them, and how to navigate a world where unanticipated things happen…
Money For the Rest of Us
08/24/2022
When Should You Hire An Investment Advisor? Two Case Studies
We analyze two listeners' portfolios. One who is close to retirement and considering hiring an outside money manager. The second is 45 and just sold …
Money For the Rest of Us
08/17/2022
How To Invest Based on Cycles
This episode edits and remasters two earlier episodes on investing based on cycles to focus on timeless investing principles.Topics covered include:W…
Money For the Rest of Us
08/10/2022
Forsage and Herbalife—How Multi-Level Marketing, Pyramid Schemes, and Ponzi Schemes Differ
Why it is challenging to distinguish a legitimate multi-level marketing company from a pyramid scheme as hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman found out…
Money For the Rest of Us
08/03/2022
How Population Trends Will Impact Growth, Inflation, Investing, and Well Being
How slowing population growth and an eventual population peak will lead to competition for foreign workers, potentially higher inflation, and ultimat…
Money For the Rest of Us
07/27/2022
How To Get Better At Risk Taking
Five ways we can better take and manage risk.Topics covered include:How likely is it that China will invade Taiwan and the stock market will fall 80%…
Money For the Rest of Us
07/20/2022