Discover the opportunities and risks in our global economy. Richard Duncan joins Andy to discuss how the U.S. has avoided a recession, and why liquidity is your best indicator for stock risks.
SHOW NOTES:
8:53: How Did COVID Change Economic Fundamentals?
26:21: What Is The Lesson From SVB’s Collapse?
33:17: What Is Thru Truth About Current Inflation?
36:11: Why Should We Expect A Recession?
41:38: How Is Liquidity Our Best Indicator Of The Stock Market’s Future?
48:41: How Will The Housing Market Dip?
Financial literacy becomes more vital in our current age of misinformation, digital currencies and political extremism. Economist Howard Yaruss joins Andy to discuss how to stay economically “fit” at all levels of financial literacy.
SHOW NOTES:
4:14: How Does Financial Literacy Make-or-Break A Nation?
7:10: Why Don’t Schools Teach Financial Education?
16:47: How Is Crypto Currency Flawed?
21:25: How Is Creating Value The Goal Of Capitalism?
28:54: How Does Economic Illiteracy Allow Bad Policy?
35:52: How Should National Debt Concern Us?
Discover how the current economic and institutional crises will likely play out, and how you can prepare for increased uncertainty. Historian Neil Howe joins Andy to discuss how demographic cycles may offer insight to where we’re heading.
SHOW NOTES:
7:01: How Does Generational History Inform Today’s Upheaval?
12:15: How Does Demography Predict The Future?
16:33: How Has “The Fourth Turning” Arrived?
31:00: How Are Economics About To Change?
36:10: How Will The Government Inevitably Control More Of Our Economy?
49:22: How Will Individualism Recede And Community Grow After “The Fourth Turning?”
Discover how to train your mind to make the best trades under pressure. Hasard Lee, awarded the Air Force’s top F-16 combat instructor, joins Andy to discuss how to achieve clear thinking when making difficult financial decisions.
SHOW NOTES:
7:47: What Is Clear Thinking?
12:01: How Do People Outsource Their Thinking?
17:32: How Is Decision-Making Improved Through Debriefing?
22:15: How Does Stress Impact Decision Making?
26:41: How Can Awareness Of Power Laws Improve Decision Making?
34:15: How Can Stress Become Calming?
Discover how to leverage the inflation and money policy crises. Joseph Gulesserian joins Andy with an in-depth look at strategies to protect and grow wealth in these tumultuous times.
SHOW NOTES:
4:34: How Has The Fed Backed Itself Into A Corner?
10:10: How Does The U.S. Monetary Policy Become Unsustainable?
16:15: How Is MMT Increasing Risk To Our Economy?
23:29: How Are Employment Numbers Remaining So Strong?
27:51: How Will AI Impact The Economy?
31:23: How Do Governments Create Dependency?
34:41: What Is The Future Of Banks?
41:45: How Do Investors Combat Inflation?
48:11: How Secure Is The U.S. Dollar?
Discover how traders leverage chaos events to make massive profits. We live in an age where boom-and-bust cycles may be more acute, and traders are identifying these cycles with colorful names like Black Swann and Dragon King. Scott Patterson joins Andy with his research into this new era of trading.
SHOW NOTES:
4:31: Are Black Swann Events Real?
7:20: How Can Traders Incorporate Black Swann Events Into Their Trading?
11:46: How Is Nassim Taleb An Important Investor?
14:50: What Is Dragon King Theory?
20:41: Are Chaos Traders Smart Or Lucky?
27:51: How Do Traders Predict “Down” & Predict “Up?”
32:56: Are Markets Finding More “Catastrophes?”
Discover how difficult investing decisions can be streamlined to achieve beneficial outcomes. Paul Epstein joins Andy to discuss how to build a personal system for optimal decision making.
SHOW NOTES:
8:32: Why Do We Need To Make Decisions Faster?
15:13: How Is Decision Making A Skill?
23:31: How Do You Build A Plan To Make Better Decisions Faster?
30:57: How Are Offensive Decisions Vital To Success?
Discover the true cost of being financially ignorant, and how that ignorance is exploited. Per Bylund joins Andy to discuss how anyone can achieve financial literacy.
SHOW NOTES:
5:06: What Is Economics?
9:25: What Is The Cost Of An Electorate That Is Financially Illiterate?
19:58: How Is MMT Becoming More Popular?
24:24: How Could Current Inflation Become Hyperinflation?
29:26: Is It Too Late To Systemically Fix Our Economic Policies?
35:54: Why Don’t Schools Teach Financial Literacy?
Discover how technology is adversely changing the family unit, and oftentimes robbing children of the ability to think critically. Thomas Kersting joins Andy to discuss how to raise healthy children in an unhealthy environment.
SHOW NOTES:
6:58: How Is The Current Cultural Climate Much Different Than Anything Previously?
9:26: How Is Technology Hypnotizing Children & Adults?
12:21: How Has “Comparison Culture” Taken On An Outsized Role In Society?
16:28: What Tools Can Parents Use To Raise Healthy Children?
21:29: How Have Families Become Siloed?
22:22: How Does Technology Marinate Minds In Dopamine?
27:23: How Does Happiness Create Wealth?
Discover why Americans are waiting for someone else to fix what’s broken in society. Philip Howard joins Andy to discuss how every citizen can take action instead of sitting back and hoping someone else does the job.
SHOW NOTES:
7:31: How Has Government Strangled Efficiency?
10:55: How Have Public Unions Co-Opted Government?
15:16: How Can Citizens Change Entrenched Bureaucracies That No Longer Serve The Public?
19:55: What Is The Most Dangerous Aspect Of Bureaucracies With No Accountability?
22:49: How Is Our Current Crisis Of Confidence Different?
27:00: How Does Our Culture Make Citizens “Fat and Happy?”
Discover how Tether is tied to fiat currencies inside the crypto universe. Carol Alexander joins Andy to explain how the crypto currency market is quickly evolving and full of risk and opportunity.
SHOW NOTES:
6:47: What Role Does Tether Play In The Crypto Universe?
17:28: How Should Investors Be Concerned About Tether?
22:10: How Does Tether Impact The Value Of The Dollar?
25:53: What’s The Future Of Crypto?
33:47: What Role Will Central Banks Play In Cryptos?
39:03: How Can Investors Educate Themselves About Crypto?
Discover how non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have skyrocketed in popularity, and what value they offer to businesses and content creators.
SHOW NOTES:
2:45: How Have NFTs Created Value?
5:10: What Is Tokenism?
12:57: How Are NFTs Digital Certifications Of Ownership?
21:22: How Can NFTs Improve Credibility In The Marketplace?
31:29: How Do NFTs Protect Intellectual Property?
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?