Money For the Rest of Us
Summary: A personal finance show on money, how it works, how to invest it and how to live without worrying about it. J. David Stein is a former Chief Investment Strategist and money manager. For close to two decades, he has been teaching individuals and institutions how to invest and handle their finances in ways that are simple to understand. More info at moneyfortherestofus.com
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- Artist: J. David Stein | A personal finance show on money, investing, the economy, retirement, and wealth. The world explained like on NPR: Planet Money, Freakonomics Radio, This American Life, Radiolab from WNYC, and Tim Ferriss
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Podcasts:
Why relying on averages is dangerous given our fate is often determined by extreme events and how we react as financial markets, the economy and our own lives evolve.
Why duties and other actions are necessary to address trade disputes, but across the board tariffs are a blunt instrument that can lead to a devastating trade war and global recession.
Four investment lessons from Berkshire Hathaway's fiscal year 2017 Shareholder Letter with additional insights from Howard Marks and Seth Klarman.
How planning helps us avoid catastrophic errors while maintaining flexibility and margins of safety allow us to thrive even if our plans don't work out.
In this episode we explore scarcity. Artificial scarcity created by laws and real scarcity created by our evolving lifestyles and economy. We'll see that most physical products, with drinking water being an exception, are becoming less scarce while trust and attention are becoming more scarce.
Why interest rates are rising and what could happen to bonds, stocks and the economy if rates returned to more normal levels.
What investments are best for maintaining purchasing power relative to inflation. Using the pencil as an example, how inflationary and deflationary forces work together over decades to determine the price of product.
Will increasing the minimum wage help or harm workers and businesses? How many U.S. workers are paid at or below the minimum wage?
How our net worth is more than our financial capital but includes our lifetime earning capacity or human capital. What role does debt play in investing in human capital and how our human capital impacts how we allocate our financial investments. Why stocks aren't less risky in the long-term. How to invest a lump sum payment and how I recently did so in today's market environment.
Why opportunity costs should be our primary frame for deciding what to buy instead of anchoring, mental accounting or whether we pay with a credit card or cash.
Why paying taxes has very little to do with funding the federal government. We also explore the potential impact of the U.S. tax reform on households, businesses and the economy.
There is no regular episode of the podcast this week, but there is a new podcast you can subscribe and listen to: Topics by Money For the Rest of Us. This is a seasonal show released monthly that categorizes existing episodes into topics with a newly recorded introduction. Please subscribe so you automatically get the seasons as they are released.
A wide ranging discussion on retirement math, sequence of return risk, investing buckets, scaling exposure to Bitcoin and gold, and creating a lifestyle business.
How Illinois and other states can suffer a debt crisis like Greece but why it wouldn't lead to an economic depression similar to what Greece suffered.
Why technology eliminates jobs but doesn't increase the level of unemployment even though for more than 50 years that has been the worry.
