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What Happens If Your Brokerage Firm Goes Bankrupt?

What Happens If Your Brokerage Firm Goes Bankrupt?

How protected are you if the brokerage firm where you hold your stocks, bonds, and crypto assets files for bankruptcy? Why you shouldn't store your c…

Part 2 - What Is Money and How To Think About It

Part 2 - What Is Money and How To Think About It

David and his son Camden conclude their conversation about money.Topics covered include:A review of money principles discussed in Part 1How money is …

Part 1 - What Is Money and How To Think About It

Part 1 - What Is Money and How To Think About It

David and his son Camden hold a conversation about money, its attributes, how it's created, and how money differs from investments.Topics covered inc…

How to Survive a Bear Market

How to Survive a Bear Market

Three things investors can do to survive this bear market and thrive in its aftermath.Topics discussed include:What are bear markets, how often do th…

Why David Isn't Podcasting This Week and Our New Closed-End Fund Course

Why David Isn't Podcasting This Week and Our New Closed-End Fund Course

This week on the show, David shares some investing lessons from fly fishing and introduces our new course on How To Invest in Closed-End Funds.Betwee…

Are BlackRock and Vanguard Too Big and Powerful?

Are BlackRock and Vanguard Too Big and Powerful?

How big index fund and ETF providers have increased their sway over publicly-traded companies while potentially discouraging competition. What can be…

Is Airbnb Intensifying the Housing Crisis?

Is Airbnb Intensifying the Housing Crisis?

We explore whether long-term and short-term single-family home rentals are contributing to higher rents, higher home prices, and a housing shortage. …

Will Quantitative Tightening Lead To Even Greater Financial Losses?

Will Quantitative Tightening Lead To Even Greater Financial Losses?

How financial markets and the economy performed last time the Federal Reserve took away the punch bowl by raising its policy rate and pursuing quanti…

Why Most Money Fails - Six Principles to Navigate the Unstable World of Money

Why Most Money Fails - Six Principles to Navigate the Unstable World of Money

How should you approach money given most of it either collapses or loses its purchasing power due to inflation.Get our free six-day email course on h…

When Should You Pay a Premium?

When Should You Pay a Premium?

What are examples of when it makes sense to pay more than the usual price or fair value for an item or asset?Topics covered include:Why we are willin…

Is It Time To Invest In Big Tech or Medium Tech Stocks?  (FAANGs and FANMAGs)

Is It Time To Invest In Big Tech or Medium Tech Stocks? (FAANGs and FANMAGs)

With many of the largest tech stocks falling over 20% year-to-date, is now the time to invest? Has the market changed to where tech investing is a sa…

Has A Commodities Bull Market Super Cycle Started? If So, How Do You Invest In It?

Has A Commodities Bull Market Super Cycle Started? If So, How Do You Invest In It?

What causes secular bull and bear markets in commodities. What factors suggest a new commodities bull market has started and how can investors partic…

How To Be A Successful Contrarian Investor

How To Be A Successful Contrarian Investor

How contrarians combine value and momentum to take positions opposite what the consensus believes. What is the consensus view in today's financial ma…

Is A Famine Next? Food Inflation, Food Riots, and Investing in Commodities and other Real Things

Is A Famine Next? Food Inflation, Food Riots, and Investing in Commodities and other Real Things

Why food costs are soaring and what we can do about it. Why inflation rates could start to drop. Why commodity futures, including agriculture futures…

Investing in Business Development Companies (BDCs) and other Niche Assets That Trade on Stock Exchanges

Investing in Business Development Companies (BDCs) and other Niche Assets That Trade on Stock Excha…

We review the ten asset categories that trade on major stock exchanges, many of which are smaller niches in which individual investors have an edge o…

How Stories Drive Our Happiness and Financial Success

How Stories Drive Our Happiness and Financial Success

Stories determine economic and financial outcomes, both our own and the world in aggregate. Here's how to craft and follow stories that will lead to …

People Like Us Invest Like This - Remastered with New Introduction

People Like Us Invest Like This - Remastered with New Introduction

This week, we revisit a classic episode released five years ago. In a newly recorded introduction, David shares the background on the episode and why…

Do We Even Need Leaders?

Do We Even Need Leaders?

How societies have functioned without leaders, including leaderless megacities that survived over 800 years.Topics covered include:Is geopolitics mor…

Is Stagflation Coming?

Is Stagflation Coming?

Will the world experience both inflation and subpar economic growth at the same time?Topics covered include:What is inflation and what causes itWhat …

What If It's Different This Time? - The Impact of the Russian-Ukraine War

What If It's Different This Time? - The Impact of the Russian-Ukraine War

What can we do to prepare if the Russian-Ukraine war gets even worse?Topics covered include:How risk and uncertainty differ as does how we manage the…