Summary: Our guest today is David Stein. David was the Chief Investment Strategist and Chief Portfolio Strategist at Fund Evaluation Group, LLC, a $33 billion investment advisory firm. Today he likes to teach people about money, how it works, how to invest it and how to live without worrying about it.<br> <br> What is inflation, and what causes it?<br> Why you shouldn't pay off your mortgage.<br> What does the current investment landscape look like?<br> Plus other topics we discussed on tangents.<br> <br> <br> <br> If you missed last week's episode, be sure to listen to How to be Mortgage Free in Five to Seven Years.<br> <br> Enjoy the show!<br> <br> - - - - - - - - - - - - - -<br> <br> Download your FREE copy of: The Ultimate Guide to Passive Real Estate Investing.<br> <br> Get your FREE coffee mug by leaving us a Rating and Review on iTunes. Here's how.<br> <br> See our available Turnkey Cash-Flow Rental Properties.<br> <br> Please give us a RATING & REVIEW (Thank you!)<br> <br> SUBSCRIBE on iTunes | Stitcher | Podcast Feed <br> <br> <br> Inflation, Debt and the Investment Landscape – David Stein<br> Welcome to Passive Real Estate Investing. I am your host, Marco Santarelli. If this is your first time here, welcome. If this is not your first time here, I am glad you made it back. Today, I wanted to do a show that was a little different than what we typically do, which is hyper focused on real estate specifically. So much of what ties into real estate and investing in general has to do with what is going on in the economy and around the world, whether it be oil prices or interest rates or countries devaluing their currency versus our currency. Changing the cost of goods that goes into transportation and changing the cost of the materials that go into housing, etc.<br> <br> It is really a very wide complex interconnected web. What I am going to start doing in future episodes, I am going to sprinkle in a show here and there about the economy and about economics, and about some topic related to real estate but not directly. Hopefully, that's going to help enlighten you and broaden your knowledge about what is going on around the country and the world. I don't get into politics, of course, but maybe something that is happening in Washington is going to affect financing or what you can and can't do with your properties. Who knows?<br> <br> <br> <br> Today, I am bringing a guest on by the name of J. David Stein, a really smart guy. He used to manage billions of dollars in a fund, not a hedge fund but an investment fund and he is a strategist. He has an interesting way to look at things and he explains things in a fairly clear way. In fact, he's got a great podcast that I listen to and I enjoy. It's just one of many sources of information that I get. Anyway, I was a little pressed on time on my interview with him, so I had to rush it a little bit and I apologize about that in advance.<br> <br> It's my pleasure to welcome, David Stein to the show. David was the Chief Investment Strategist and Chief Portfolio Strategist at Fund Evaluation Group LLC, a $33-billion investment advisory firm. Today, David likes to teach people about money, how it works, how to invest it and how to live without worrying about it. He is also the host of the personal finance podcast, Money for The Rest of Us, which by the way is a great podcast. David, welcome to the show.<br> <br> Thanks, Marco for having me. It’s good to be here.<br> <br> It's great having you on the show. I actually am a listener of your podcast. I enjoy it very much because it's an interesting, easy listening format to learn about money and the economy and everything else surrounding that, which is not exactly what our show is about. I wanted to bring you on because I think a lot of our listeners are either sophisticated and or interested in diffe...
