Discover how fiscal policy is unsustainable and what the best options are to build a healthy economic future. Economist John Cochrane joins Andy.
SHOW NOTES:
4:22: How Can The Fed Kill Inflation?
10:18: How Did The Fed Keep Inflation So Low For So Long?
16:01: Is The Current Fiscal Policy Sustainable?
21:35: What Does The U.S. Look Like If Its Fiscal Policy Fails?
27:13: Where Does Inflation Come From?
31:45: How Is MMT Seductive?
39:01: How Can People Prepare For A Sour Economy?
Discover how so-called experts fail to predict financial crises. Howard Adler, former U.S. Treasury official, joins Andy to discuss how the next financial boom-and-bust cycle is growing, and how you can prepare for it.
SHOW NOTES:
4:57: How Does The U.S. Treasury Justify Its Response To Covid?
12:42: How Does Each Financial Crisis Result In Expanded Government Powers?
16:40: How Is The Fed Likely Handcuffed To Fix Inflation?
18:55: How Does The Fed Create Bubbles?
24:40: Where Does The Economy Currently Stand In The Covid Bubble?
29:00: How Does Fed Policy Put The U.S. Dollar At Risk?
37:31: What Risk Does The Reverse Repo Market Present?
42:47: Is It Likely That The Government Would Bail Out 401(k)s?
Top instructors Noah Davidson and Corey Halliday join Andy with their economic forecast for 2023. Stocks, real estate, crypto, precious metals, and inflation are all covered in this timely episode.
SHOW NOTES:
1:24: How Valuable To Investors Are Economic Prediction?
2:38: Where Are Stocks Headed In 2023?
5:54: How Is It Easier To Predict What Is Going To Happen, Not When It Will Happen?
10:04: How Will The Fed Behave In 2023?
15:53: How Will Inflation Remain Sticky?
20:59: Where Will Investor Opportunities Be In 2023?
32:22: How Will Gold Perform In 2023?
36:32: How Will Crypto Perform In 2023?
Discover how monies constantly change, and why crypto may be signaling a dramatic shift from government-issued money to private money.
SHOW NOTES:
3:30: How Is Money Supply Over-Valued?
8:09: How Does Money Follow Productivity?
10:58: Why Is There No Such Thing As Bubbles?
14:54: How Does Capitalism Always Seek Stable Money?
21:39: How Is Money A Measure?
24:55: How Will Private Money Push Out Government Money?
Discover how to protect and build wealth as The Fed raises rates in response to inflation. David Stockman joins Andy.
SHOW NOTES:
5:03: What Are The Similarities With Current Inflation And Inflation Of The 70s?
11:47: How Close Is The Fed To Killing Inflation?
17:31: What Interest Rate Will Control Inflation?
22:28: How Does The Current Rate Of Personal Savings Impact Inflation?
25:50: How Is Inflation Cumulative?
27:57: How Do You Protect Your Wealth During Inflation?
Discover how our global crisis of trust impacts money and investing, and how new technologies like block chain may restore confidence.
SHOW NOTES:
9:43: Is Enthusiasm For Crypto Legitimate?
17:10: How Is Block Chain Likely To Restore Trust In Our Economy?
25:38: How Should Investors Focus On Trustless Financial Vehicles?
36:00: How Can Bit Coin’s Obsolescence Risk Be Determined?
43:41: How Can Crypto’s Investment Value Determined?
48:22: How Could Block Chain Revolutionize Lending?
59:38: What Does The FTX Crisis Reveal About Crypto?
Discover how China has revolutionized digital finance and prompted the U.S. to play catch-up in an attempt to remain the world’s financial leader.
SHOW NOTES:
2:02: How Did China Become The Global Leader Of FinTech?
6:50: How Has China Developed A Social Credit Score?
12:34: How Is The U.S. Trying To Compete With China’s FinTech Dominance?
15:59: What Are The Risks/Rewards Of Adopting Chinese-Style FinTech?
19:34: What’s The Future Of Currency?
23:25: Who Leads The Race For AI Domination?
Discover how to build habits that strengthen your mind and propel you to perform at optimal levels. Dr. Jon Finn joins Andy in this discussion about neuroscience and practical steps you can take to improve your life.
SHOW NOTES:
4:10: How Are We Understanding How The Brain Functions In New Ways?
11:27: What Is A Habit?
17:00: How Can Anyone Change His Or Her Habits?
23:18: How Do You Plan To Change Behavior?
29:22: How Can Traders Control Their Emotions?
34:53: Why Are We “Triggered” Instead Of Resilient?
38:41: How Do You Connect Future Success To Current Behavior?
Discover how computer chips have become the world’s most valuable resource. Economic superiority – as well as security -- will be determined by who controls chips.
SHOW NOTES:
5:03: What Nations Are Fighting The Chip War?
7:22: How Does The World Change If China Dominates Chips?
10:38: How Is China Positioned To Win The Chip War?
14:08: What Risks Do Chips Present To Crypto?
16:53: How Is The Security Of Taiwan Critical To The Chip War?
19:01: How Do Chips Impact Your Life Everyday?
21:26: Will Chip Advancement Eliminate Jobs?
Ted Benna, “The Father of the 401(k),” joins Andy to discuss how inflation impacts retirement investments. Also discover how to safeguard your financial future no matter what age you are.
SHOW NOTES:
4:04: How Do IRAs Compare To 401(k)s?
6:30 How Has The Global Economy Become More Troubling For Investors?
7:59: How Has The Breakdown Of Institutions Increased Risk For Investors?
12:05: What Are The Limitations Of IRAs & 401(k)s?
14:46: How Can ESG Interfere With Fiduciary Responsibility?
18:52: Should Retirement Contributions Be Mandated?
25:00: How Will Long-term Inflation Impact 401(k)s?
27:59: What Opportunities Rise From Faltering Economies?
Discover how to evaluate and leverage supply chains in business, purchasing and investing.
SHOW NOTES:
2:07: How Did The Use Of Middlemen Expand?
5:29: How Do You Determine The Value Of Middlemen?
8:31: How Can You Determine The Value Of A Supply Chain?
14:45: What Did Covid Reveal About Supply Chains?
21:22: Will DeFi Replace Traditional Banking?
30:23: How Can You Educate Yourself On The Direct Economy?
Discover how our current inflation crisis was the inevitable result of political policies, and how you can safeguard your investments with opportunities afforded by inflation.
SHOW NOTES:
6:17: How Has “Creditism” Impacted Monetary Policy?
7:39: How Do Paper Currencies Affect Inflation?
17:20: How Do Central Banks & Politicians Drive Inflation?
21:13: How Does The Price On Time Determine Efficiency Of Capital?
26:17: What Have We Learned About Modern Monetary Theory?
38:17: What Opportunities Does Inflation Create?
40:29: How Does Financial Literacy Provide Security
Discover how to develop a personal and financial plan to safeguard your health and wealth.
SHOW NOTES:
5:05: How Can You Build Toughness?
6:22: What Defines A Warrior?
9:49: How Does Transformation Begin From Within?
12:50: What Is The Value Of Service?
15:44: How Do You Learn To Properly Fight?
24:28: How Do You Learn To Protect Yourself?
28:05: How Do You Learn To Heal?
32:51: What Is The Cost Of Transformation?
Discover how the tax code rewards certain types of investing.
SHOW NOTES:
7:23: How Can The IRS Become A Wealth-Building Partner?
12:05: How Is The Tax Code A Guidebook To Successful Investing?
14:28: How Do You Progress From Being Rich To Being Wealthy?
17:44: What Motivates The Government To Offer Tax Incentives?
25:45: How Is It Patriotic To Pay Fewer Taxes?
Discover how inflation impacts stock trading, and how to build a trading plan to navigate these inflationary times.
SHOW NOTES:
4:56: What Do Traders Need To Know About Current Inflation?
10:14: What Do Traders Need To Know About Current Money Supplies?
15:59: What Sectors Gain Strength During Inflation?
29:39: How Did Inflation Expose Crypto Currencies?
42:53: How Does Inflation Create Trading Opportunities?
Discover how to change your mind – and the minds of others – in this discussion with David McRaney.
SHOW NOTES:
4:53: How Unaware Are Humans?
11:04: How Can Humans Improve By Raising Awareness Of Being Wrong?
17:27: What Is The Best Way To Change Your Own Mind?
26:35: How Does The Fear Of Social Death Impact The Brain?
33:11: What Did The GameStop Event Teach Us About The Minds Of Investors?
50:22: How Can Truth Be Found In A Post-Truth World?
Discover how to achieve and maintain high performance in business and at home. Alan Stein Jr. joins Andy to discuss his work with high-performance athletes and business leaders.
SHOW NOTES:
6:59: How Does High Performance Begin With Respect For The Basics?
11:06: How Is Mastery Of The Basics Simple But Not Easy?
19:23: What Causes Burnout?
23:50: How Are Burnout & Stagnation Different?
29:59: How Can You Bulletproof Your Performance?
Discover how America’s sophisticated economic system lends itself to so many cycles of boom-and-bust.
SHOW NOTES:
2:53: What Does The Savings & Loan Failure Teach Us About Today’s Economic Stress?
7:38: What Causes America’s Economic Failures?
11:44: How Do Financial Regulators Fail?
19:08: How Is Financial Illiteracy The Biggest Risk?
24:47: How Is Confidence The Key To Any Financial System?
32:59: How Damaging Is Q.E.?
37:19: How Have Bailouts Created More Economic Risk?
39:56: What Current Options Does The U.S. Have Today To Avoid Another Bust?
43:09: Why Are The Best Financial Minds Wary Of Helping The Government?
46:29: How Is China “Beating” The U.S.?
48:25: How Will China Win The A.I. Race?
54:37: What Are The Chances The Dollar Falters As World Reserve Currency?
Food prices are skyrocketing. Food shortages are more frequent. Global food crises are predicted. Andy speaks with a food economist who offers insight into the next expected economic crisis.
SHOW NOTES:
9:01: What Is The Risk Of A Global Food Shortage?
11:07: How Would Localizing Food Production Impact Inflation?
14:44: How Can Food Inflation Lead To Social Unrest?
18:50: How Fragile Are Food Supply Chains?
24:54: How Does Food Inflation Impact The Psychology Of A Country?
29:56: How Does Specialized Production Increase Risk?
35:30: How Likely Is A Near-Term Recession In The U.S.?
Discover how economics are understood as a series of tradeoffs. Our economic policies are too often convoluted with ingredients that stray from common sense. Matthew Hennessey joins Andy to discuss how you can cut through “magical thinking” and use economics to make better choices.
SHOW NOTES:
5:28: Why Are So Many People Intimidated By Economics?
7:33: How Have Economics Become “Over-Credentialized?”
10:17: How Is MMT An Example Of Economic “Magical Thinking?”
14:54: How Are Economics A Series Of Choices?
30:42: What Can Steve Jobs Teach Us About Economics?
38:08: What’s Wrong With The Fed Printing Money To Solve Problems?
Discover how the U.S. will fund the future. Richard Duncan joins Andy to discuss money, credit and the future of the markets.
SHOW NOTES:
17:46: How Has The Fed Changed Over The Last 100 Years?
21:53: How Did The Fed Become The World’s Most Powerful Economic Institution?
25:49: How Did The Money Revolution Occur?
34:18: How Did Globalization Enable The Fed To Print Massive Amounts Of Money?
38:26: How Is Our Economic System Addicted To Credit?
45:31: How Can Economic Dogma Limit Investors?
56:10: How Should The Fed Fund The Future?
1:09: How Can The Fed Control Inflation?
1:23: How Must The Fed Spend To Secure The U.S. From China?
1:38: How Can The U.S. Best Feed Its Addiction To Credit?
Discover how runaway inflation is impacting investing, wealth and the psychology of Americans. Economist Jay Prag joins Andy to discuss the likelihood of reversing inflation with a recession.
SHOW NOTES:
6:06: How Is The Fed Fueling Inflation?
11:39: Why Has Economy Not Entered Hyperinflation?
20:54: How Does The Ukraine War Impact Inflation?
26:05: How Does The Fed Behave Like An Addict?
35:05: How Will The Dollar’s Role Change?
41:10: How Is Russia’s Gold Purchasing Impacting The Global Economy?
44:43: How Do You Financially Plan For Inflation & Recession?
49:54: Why Are So Many Americans Embracing Socialism?
51:06: Is MMT A Failure?
54:56: What Is The Future Of Crypto?
1:06: Why Is The Economic Outlook For 2022 So Uncertain?
SUMMARY:
Discover how America and China are waging a financial war that impacts every citizen around the globe.
SHOW NOTES:
5:42: How Does Bretton Woods Frame The Current Financial Cold War?
11:17: Why Is The Dollar Still The Reserve Currency?
14:48: Is The Digital Yuan Likely To Overtake The Dollar As Reserve Currency?
16:33: Why Are The Saudis Considering Payment For Oil In Yuan?
24:02: What Is America’s “Burden Of A Superpower?”
29:43: Is The Current Global Financial System Sustainable?
32:21: How Will Efficiency Determine The Future Of Money?
35:43: Is Capitalism In Danger Of Collapsing?
44:29: How Does Japan Project The Future Of The U.S.?
52:13: How Will The Ukraine War Impact U.S.-China Relations?
SUMMARY:
Discover how to start a business, or transition from an employee to a business owner.
SHOW NOTES:
3:34: How Does A Person Get Started In Entrepreneurship?
6:24: How Does Entrepreneurship Expose Your Weaknesses?
11:03: Where Does A Person Educate Themselves On Entrepreneurship?
13:48: How Is Mission Vital To Entrepreneurial Success?
15:06: How Is Entrepreneurship A Lifestyle?
16:38: Why Do Young Entrepreneurs Need To Focus On Their Legacies Now?
18:57: What Are The Advantages Of Buying A Business As Opposed To Starting One?
21:05: How Does An Aspiring Entrepreneur Measure His Passion?
22:03: How Do Successful Entrepreneurs Deal With Failure?
SUMMARY:
Gas prices are soaring. Food prices are spiking. Discover how commodities markets are contributing to economic chaos around the globe.
SHOW NOTES:
6:04: How Are Traders Detached From Fundamentals?
10:52: How Will Expensive Oil Impact Other Commodities?
18:07: What Will Trigger Hyperinflation?
20:21: How Does Debt Disappear?
27:57: How Will The Ukraine War Contribute To Massive Food Shortages?