SUMMARY:
Discover how the invention of index funds changed forever the way stocks are bought and sold.
SHOW NOTES:
8:56: How Do Index Funds Impact Active Investment?
15:25: How Do Index Funds Solve The Problem Of Scalability?
18:57: How Do Investors Determine The Best Index Funds?
23:17: How Do Fees Impact Index Funds?
27:31: What Is The Future Of Bitcoin ETFs?
30:57: How Does Market Cap Add Risk To Index Funds?
36:10: What Are The Unintended Consequences Of Index Funds?
Summary:
Just like The Seven Deadly Sins, there are Seven Economic Sins that can impede success in business. James Otteson joins Andy to discuss economic sins and how personal decision-making can lead to a prosperous life.
SHOW NOTES:
5:35: What Is The Invisible Hand?
11:52: How Is Technology Making People More Risk Averse?
19:29: What Are The Unseen Consequences Of Deadly Economic Sins?
28:20: How Does Envy Impede Economic Success?
37:10: How Do You Use Your Best Skills In An Honorable Way?
SUMMARY:
Discover why inflation occurs and how you can prepare to live with it. Andy and a team of his best educators take a deep dive into The Fed and monetary policy, and explain in practical terms how you can navigate inflation.
SHOW NOTES:
2:35: Why Should You Care About Inflation?
4:26: How Is Current Monetary Policy Unprecedented?
5:32: Why Are There Negative Interest Rates?
14:09: How Does Inflation Impact Everybody?
26:03: How Does The Fed Act Like A Doctor Treating A Sick Patient?
33:57: Why Is The Fed Tapering?
36:40: How Is MMT A Threat To Freedom?
46:46: What Financial Lessons Can We Learn From The Wizard Of Oz?
SUMMARY:
Discover how the financial system encourages fraud and discourages oversight. Jared Bibler joins Andy to discuss his work investigating financial systems dating back to the Great Recession of 2008.
SHOW NOTES:
4:36: What Made Iceland So Corrupt Leading Into The Great Recession?
14:36: How Do Governments Encourage Financial Corruption?
17:43: How Has Financial Oversight Changed Since 2008?
22:06: How Are Central Banks Becoming Weaker?
26:29: Will Crypto Help Safeguard Fraud In The Financial System?
34:21: How Can Investors Protect Themselves From Systemic Corruption?
40:34: How Can Systemic Corruption Be Corrected?
SUMMARY:
Schools have become a lightning rod for our national divisiveness. Discover how technology and the failure of adults are hollowing out America’s youth. Jeremy Adams joins Andy to discuss his research and solutions to this crisis.
SHOW NOTES:
1:36: How Are Young Citizens Hallowed Out?
4:04: What Does It Mean To Be Hollowed Out?
8:23: How Do You Find The Middle Ground Between Neglect And Abuse?
14:24: How Are Parents Hollowing Out Their Kids?
21:03: How Are Toxic Politics The Result Of A Hollowed Out Society?
23:22: How Do You Fix The Hollowed Out Crisis?
SUMMARY:
Residential real estate prices are skyrocketing. Discover if the market is overheated, and how to make money in any market with proper financial education.
SHOW NOTES:
8:51: Is Residential Real Estate Overheated?
12:49: How Do Investors Profit In Up And Down Markets?
17:25: What Role Does Financial Education Play In Successful Investing?
21:17: What Can We Learn From The Evergrande Crisis?
24:56: How Do You Turn Bad Debt Into Good Debt?
SUMMARY:
Discover why massive government spending does not lead to inflation. Richard Vague, Secretary of Banking & Securities of Pennsylvania, joins Andy to discuss his research into the origins of inflation.
SHOW NOTES:
6:48: Does MMT Work?
8:48: How Does MMT Not Cause Inflation?
14:02: Why Should We View The U.S. Economy A Wartime Economy?
20:10: How Is Personal Credit More Important Than Government Credit?
23:46: How Are Stocks & Real Estate Tied Together?
26:57: Is Commercial Real Estate Dead?
SUMMARY:
The financial system as we know it is coming to an end. Decentralized Finance will upend banking, credit, loans and commercial transactions. Economist Campbell Harvey joins Andy to discuss DeFi.
SHOW NOTES:
3:36: How Does The Yield Curve Predict Recessions?
13:38: Why Do Policymakers Want To Convince You That Inflation Is Transitory?
20:06: Why Is MMT Baloney?
22:56: How Does Inflation Impact Stocks?
29:16: What Is DeFi?
31:40: Why Are Banks Doomed?
35:57: How Will DeFi Impact The Fed?
41:58: How Has Technology Changed Education?
SUMMARY:
Andy continues his series on inflation with economist John Horn. Discover what options remain to curtail inflation, and what the risk is for runaway inflation.
SHOW NOTES:
3:41: How Is The Fed Dealing With Inflation?
6:55: Who’s In Charge Of Dealing With Inflation?
11:06: What Value Do Economic Fundamentals Hold Today?
16:39: How Does Inflation Impact Lending Rates?
22:08: What Are The Limits Of Borrowed Money?
27:06: Will Assets Be Further Inflated?
34:37: What Inflation-Fighting Tools Remain For The Fed To Use?
38:19: Why Is Universal Basic Income Inevitable?
39:19: Are We Doing MMT?
SUMMARY:
Discover how student debt has ensnared so many families while enriching schools, politicians and bankers. Josh Mitchell joins Andy to discuss how you can leverage the student debt scheme to your advantage, and avoid its traps.
SHOW NOTES:
6:03: How Did Student Loans Start As A “Noble” Cause?
11:00: How Have Student Loans Impacted Tuition?
16:43: How Did The Government Fashion Student Loans To Protect Itself?
23:19: How Much Higher Will Student Debt Rise?
26:38: How Do Colleges Prey On Students Seeking Loans?
29:44: How Do Colleges Benefit From Student Loans?
36:44: What Are The Consequences Of Tuition-Free College?
41:39: What Should Students & Parents Consider Before Taking A Loan?
SUMMARY:
Discover how America’s economic history led to the rise of crypto currencies. Gerald Dwyer joins Andy to discuss how the Free Banking Era, the Fed, and the Gold Standard can inform the future of crypto currencies.
SHOW NOTES:
2:27: How Did Americans Banks Print Their Own Currencies?
7:47: What Does Free Banking Teach Us About Crypto Currencies?
12:00: Will Taxes Protect The Dollar?
16:19: Should Crypto Be Viewed As An Investment?
22:59: Is There Obsolescence Risk With Bit Coin?
27:35: Who Is In Charge Of Bit Coin?
30:49: Why Is MMT A Fallacy?
35:01: How Has The Fed Lost Control Of Money?
40:12: What Are Crypto Currencies’ Relationship With Inflation?
48:57: Why Is It Unlikely That Americans Will Understand Fiscal Policy?
SUMMARY:
Economist Desmond Lachman joins Andy in part 2 of the Inflation Series. Discover how fiscal policy will likely trigger massive economic turmoil in the coming years.
SHOW NOTES:
3:54: Is U.S. Fiscal Policy Going To Sustain Inflation?
9:20: How Is Deflationary Pressure Contributing To Inflation?
13:47: What Have We Learned From Modern Monetary Theory?
18:20: How Is The Fed Boxed In?
21:27: Will The U.S. Jump Into Hyperinflation?
26:19: What Will Prompt The Fed To Raise Interest Rates?
28:31: Is Inflation A Global Problem?
30:48: How Is Education Contributing To Risky Fiscal Policies?
SUMMARY:
Fiscal policy has produced inflation. David Laidler, one of the foremost scholars of inflation and monetarism, joins Andy to discuss how current inflation compares to historic inflation. Discover how inflation impacts your savings and spending, and how it likely will trigger more civic unrest.
SHOW NOTES:
1:49: Why Should Americans Be Worried About Inflation?
4:52: How Has The Fed Handcuffed Itself?
7:11: Is Current Inflation A Global Phenomenon?
9:40: Are Central Banks Still In Control Of Inflation?
13:45: Does MMT Work?
17:08: Does MMT Curtail Individual Freedom?
22:12: How Does Current Fiscal Policy Impact Stock Investing?
28:51: Why Should Young Americans Feel Grateful About The Economy?
SUMMARY:
Discover how the best investing strategies overlap with successful life strategies. William Green joins Andy to discuss his work studying the world’s top investors.
SHOW NOTES:
8:00: What Are The Similar Traits Top Traders Possess?
14:49: How Do Trading Skills Overlap To Life Skills?
20:43: How Does Success Begin With Eliminating Stupidity?
29:50: How Is Success Simple?
37:17: How Do You Distinguish What You Can Control?
41:11: How Can New Investors Begin On The Right Track?
SUMMARY:
Discover how macro trading is influencing all markets. Colin Lancaster, one of Wall Street’s most accomplished macro traders, joins Andy to discuss how sovereign policies around the globe are likely to cause turbulence for many investors.
SHOW NOTES:
7:12: How Is Macro Policy Driving The Markets?
9:48: What Is A Bubble?
12:52: How Is QE Policy Diminishing In Value?
15:56: Is The U.S. Fully Adopting Modern Monetary Theory?
19:17: Has The Fed Neutered It’s Own Power?
22:51: What Can A 401(k) Investor Do To Protect His Retirement Savings?
SUMMARY:
Discover the psychology of why people say yes. Robert Cialdini joins Andy to discuss his seminal research of influence and persuasion, and how to use it ethically in business and life.
SHOW NOTES:
9:04: What Is Pre-Suasion?
12:08: What Is The Difference Between Influence & Manipulation?
14:47: How Does Empathy Relate To Persuasion?
18:16: How Can A Divided Nation Learn To Cooperate?
25:14: How Did Cialdini Influence Warren Buffett?
SUMMARY:
Discover how to master the mental game of trading. Jared Tendler joins Andy to discuss a system traders can employ to improve all aspects of their lives.
SHOW NOTES:
6:16: How Do Traders Begin Mastering Their Mental Games?
10:46: What Are The Most Common Mental Problems Facing Traders?
13:23: How Can Traders Train To Make The Best Decisions?
17:34: Why Do Traders Over-Value Their Predictions?
20:37: How Can Traders Master Confirmation Bias?
24:17: How Do Traders Know Their Weaknesses?
27:13: What Are The 3 Elements Traders Can Use To Improve Their Mental Game?
37:41: How Can Certainty Cure Fear?
SUMMARY:
Economist Richard Duncan joins Andy to discuss how the global economy has fundamentally changed. Discover how massive money printing may not bring inflation.
SHOW NOTES:
4:48: How Is Money Creation Radically Changing The Economy?
6:27: What Happens When The Velocity Of Money Slows?
10:31: Where Is Inflation?
15:01: Why Are Stocks At All-Time Highs?
21:19: Will Taxes Control Inflation?
26:47: How Will Gold & Bitcoin Respond To The New Economy?
30:30: What Deflationary Pressures Exist?
39:36: What Can We Learn From The Great Recession Of 2008?
43:41: Why Is It Smart For The U.S. Government To Spend $10 Trillion Dollars?
46:46: What Are The Risks Of Politicians Controlling The Economy?
48:56: Why Is It Vital That America Outspend China on Artificial Intelligence?
SUMMARY:
Matt Doherty, the championship-level coach and basketball player, joins Andy to discuss the skills you can develop to turn failure into success.
SHOW NOTES:
4:18: Why Does Everyone Benefit From Coaching?
6:52: Why Do Successful People Focus On Failure?
10:42: Why Do So Many Young Adults Embrace Victimhood?
16:30: What’s The Best Way To Rebound From Failure In Business?
18:52: What’s The Most Important Lesson Dean Smith Taught You?
19:13: What Did Michael Jordan Teach You About Competitiveness?
SUMMARY:
Discover how currencies are fairy tails. Frederick Kaufman joins Andy to discuss his research into the history of currencies, and how any successful investor must decipher what’s fact and what’s fiction.
SHOW NOTES:
3:37: How Is Money A Fiction?
6:22: What Is The Greatest Misconception About Money?
10:16: Are We Shifting To MMT?
14:28: Where Is The Money Action today?
21:02: How Is Crypto Fiction?
29:46: How Did Bretton Woods Change Money?
39:08: Why Is Money Always About Status?
44:35: How Is Status Changing?
48:16: Why Do We Need More Money To Solve Income Inequality?
55:28: How Does Wall Street Skim Your Money?
SUMMARY:
Discover how women adopt specific skills to become successful entrepreneurs. Charlene Walter joins Andy to discuss her research and personal experience in this field.
SHOW NOTES:
6:14: Why Have More Women Than Men Lost Their Jobs During The Pandemic?
9:43: How Do Successful Entrepreneurs Develop Their Minds?
11:08: How Do Women View Entrepreneurship?
16:40: What Entrepreneurial Opportunities Does The Pandemic Present?
18:47: How Do You Build Resilience?
25:21: What Are The Ways You Can Gain Financial Education?
SUMMARY:
Discover how bit coin fits into the hierarchy of monies. Traders and investors will hear if the future of bit coin is to compete with or compliment more established monies like the U.S. Dollar and gold.
SHOW NOTES:
3:49: Is Bit Coin Fully Established?
5:58: What Is Layered Money?
8:06: How Does Bit Coin Fit With Other Monies?
13:59: Why Is The U.S. Dollar In Trouble?
20:31: Should Investors Treat Bit Coin As A Currency Or Investment?
28:41: How Has Block Chain Brought Bit Coin Legitimacy?
34:22: What Is Bit Coin’s Political Risk?
42:11: Is It Possible To Increase The Supply Of Bit Coin?
SUMMARY:
Discover what to do when things go wrong. Planning instead of reacting to crises is a skill anyone can learn. Andy and Frank Supovitz offer hard-earned wisdom on crisis planning and management.
SHOW NOTES:
3:19: How We Are All Project Managers?
8:42: Why Is Planning Often Wrong?
12:34: How Do Solutions Contain Patterns?
21:02: What Was Right & Wrong About The CDC’s Initial Response To COVID?
25:02: Why Is Hope Not A Plan?
31:39: How Do You Motivate Someone To Be Proactive With Crisis Management?
SUMMARY:
Jim Rickards joins Andy to discuss his research into the post-pandemic economy. Discover how to best position yourself and your business now that COVID vaccines have arrived.
SHOW NOTES:
3:01: How Has The Fed Changed The Economy?
15:16: Why Should You Focus On Velocity Of Money?
26:54: What’s Wrong With Modern Monetary Theory?
34:34: How Can You Forecast Your Economic Future?