Money For the Rest of Us Podcast

Money For the Rest of Us is a podcast about money, how it works, how to invest it and how to live without worrying about it. A new episode is released most Wednesdays at noon Eastern time.

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328: Are You Underweight Chinese Stocks? Pros and Cons of Investing in China

327: Is Student Loan Forgiveness A Good Idea?

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Episode 326: The New Math of Retirement Spending and Investing

325: Convertible Bonds—The High Returning Asset Class That Vanguard Abandoned

324: 2020—The Year We Will Never Forget

323: The Economy Is Not A Machine

322: Why Currency Exchange Rates Matter

321: How to Analyze Complex Investments

320: Somebody Won the Election. Now What?

319: Here Come Central Bank Digital Currencies

318: What Are SPACs and Should You Invest in Them?

317: How To Buy In A Hot Housing Market

316: Paper, Rocks, or Digits—What Makes the Best Money

315: Are We Being Forced to Buy Stocks?

314: How to Not Have a Lost Decade

313: No One Is Entirely a Buy and Hold Investor

312: What the Federal Reserve’s New Policies Mean For Your Finances

311: Did ETFs Pass the 2020 Market Collapse Stress Test?

310: Why the Stock Market and Economy Are Rebounding So Quickly

309: Investments to Fight Financial Repression

308: Coins and Cash: Shortages, Hoarding, and Threats

307: Income Share Agreements—Good for Students or Investors?

306: Three Approaches to Asset Allocation

305: Are Banks Safe?

304: A 15% Guaranteed Return? Lending on the Fringes of Finance

303: How To Do Financial Planning

302: Investing is Not Knowing

301: Use Caution with Alternative Investments

300: Ray Dalio and the Changing World Order

299: Has the Pandemic Changed You?

298: The Stock Market Is Not the Economy

297: How To Protect Your Savings

296: Why Negative Prices Exist and What Can They Teach Us

295: Federal Reserve Insolvency and Monetizing the National Debt

294: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Economic Events

293: Decision Making: Uncertainty Versus Risk

292: Will Infinite Money Save the Economy?

291: How To Survive the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Shutdown

290: What is a Closed-End Fund and How to Invest in Them

289: Market Timing Versus Time in the Market

288: Will Early Retirements Crash the Economy

287: What Causes Hyperinflation and What To Do To Prepare For It

286: Coronavirus and the Financial Impact of Pandemics

285: Money is Debt

284: We Are All Financially Vulnerable

283: Why You Should Care About Carry Trades

282: Is GDP the Best Measure of Happiness and Well-Being?

281: Four Forces That Will Shape The Next Decade

280: Travel and the Trust Economy

279: Why All Retirees Should Consider an Income Annuity

278: You Have Permission to Spend

277: How ETFs are Changing

276: Don’t Retire, Settle Instead

275: Are You Over Diversified?

274: 10 Questions to Master Successful Investing

273: What is an ETN? Understanding Exchange-Traded Notes

272: Is Inflation Measured Wrong?

271: Financial Independence Is a Choice

270: Repo Rates Soared—Here’s Why It Matters

269: How the Public Sector Pension Crisis Will Impact You

268: How To Better Manage Risk

267: How Capitalism Gets Off Track

266: Using Momentum Investing and Trend Following

265: Invest Like A Tesla

264: What Happens If U.S. Interest Rates Turn Negative?

263: Should You Invest In Gold?

262: Better Not Bigger, Circular Not—How the Global Economy Is Changing

261: Is Value Investing Dead?

260: Is This Why Interest Rates Are Falling and the Global Economy Slowing?

259: Will The Libra Cryptocurrency Revolutionize Money?

258: How Financialization Pushes Up Home Prices

257: It’s Not Just Wealth That Compounds

256: Will Artificial Intelligence Change Investing?

255: With Interest Rates Falling, Why Do You Own Bonds?

254: Should You Be 100% Invested In Stocks?

253: Are IPOs the New Ponzi Scheme?

252: How To Become Wealthy

251: Impact Investing and Intentionality

250: Investing Rule One—Avoid Ruin

249: Should You Invest in India?

248: How to Avoid Investment Fraud

247: More Indexes, ETFs and Manager Skill, but Less Alpha

246: What Central Banks Don’t Know Should Concern You

245: Is College Worth It?

244: Are You Spending Too Much (FIRE Edition)

243: Do You Have Enough to Retire (FIRE Edition)

242: Should You Let Warren Buffett Manage Your Money?

241: Do Budget Deficits Matter? Modern Monetary Theory Explained

240: Three Financial Lessons from Thoreau

239: How to Be a Successful Trader

238: The U.S Is More Socialist Than Denmark Regarding Home Mortgages

237: Brexit Is A Mess – Lessons Learned

236: How Investors Cope With Radical Uncertainty

235: What If Home Prices Always Declined

234: Index But Don’t Herd

233: Is An Emerging Markets Crisis Imminent?

232: Is It Time To Invest In Commodities?

231: What Determines How Much You Make

230: Use Caution With Real Estate Crowdfunding

229: Stop Maximizing Your Returns Using Modern Portfolio Theory

228: How To Tokenization Will Radically Change Investing

227: How To Teach Children About Money

226: How To Spot Asset Bubbles and What To Do About Them

225: How To Invest In Bonds

224: Mastering The Market Cycle

223: How To Invest When You Have Little Money

222: Why We Overpay and How It Contributes To Income Inequality

221: Should You Prepare For the Next Financial Crisis?

220: Where Should You Invest Your Cash Savings?

219: The Incredible Shrinking Stock Market

218: Is China or the U.S. More Vulnerable?

217: Rebalancing, Overvaluation, Market Timing and Stock Splits

216: Avoid This Investment: P2P Lending

215: Is A Dollar Collapse Coming?

214: Should You Trade Currencies (Forex) Like Soros?

213: Why Health Insurance Is A Mess

212: Trade Wars Increase Prices and Poverty

211: How To Navigate A Housing Bubble

210: Are There Always Winners and Losers When Trading?

209: Should You Bother Investing Internationally

208: The Biggest Market Crash Is Recyclables

207: How Do The Mega Rich Invest?

206: Be Bear Aware of Bank Loans

205: Is The Fed Really Printing Money?

204: Why Are Investment Returns So Low?

203: Is Investing More Like Poker or Chess?

202: Will Your Next Car Be Electric?

201: Is Your Portfolio Unbalanced?

200: The Great National Debt Debate

199: What Kind of Money Is It?

198: Capitalism Is Creation

197: The Power of Less and Local

196: How To Survive Financially

195: Has A Trade War Begun?

194: Four Investment Lessons From Warren Buffett

193: Why Plan If Life Is So Unpredictable?

192: Is Anything Scarce Anymore?

191: Has The Bond Bear Market Begun?

190: How To Keep Up With Inflation

189: Should The Minimum Wage Be Raised?

188: Should You Pay Off Debt or Invest?

187: Do You Have Dollars and Sense?

186: Why Do We Pay Taxes?

185: Are U.S. States Just Like Greece

184: Massive Job Losses Are Inevitable But There Will Still Be Work

183: How To Invest In Commercial Real Estate

182: Was Tulipmania Just Like Bitcoin?

181: Does Illegal Immigration Help or Hurt the Economy?

180: Can You Outperform Harvard’s Endowment?

179: Free Markets and the Great Famine

178: Japan and the Impact of a Shrinking Population

177: How Business Contributes To Income Inequality

176: Are 60 Percent of Americans Insolvent?

175: How To Conduct Investment Due Diligence

174: Navigating Modern Life Like The Amish

173: Should You Invest Based On Economic Cycles?

172: Equifax Aftermath – Should You Freeze Your Credit To Protect Against Identity Theft?

171: The Extraordinary Impact of Cities

170: Are Financial Markets Efficient?

169: The Debt Ceiling – What Happens If the U.S. Defaults

168: Is Life More Difficult For Millennials?

167: Is Bitcoin Better At Money Than The Dollar?

166: Do We Really Need Growth?

165: Investing—It’s Not Just About Return

164: Optionality – When To Keep Your Options Open and When To Commit

163: Is There An Indexing Bubble?

162: Is Inflation A Good Thing

161: What You Need To Know About Retirement Calculators

160: Why Ethical Consumption Is A Myth

159: What You Need To Know About Volatility

158: How To Invest Like A Cockroach

157: The Most Important Economic Question Of Our Time

156: Your Job Or Half Your Business Could Be Gone Tomorrow

155: Clues To The Next Financial Crisis

154: Do Homeowner Tax Breaks Cause Homelessness?

MNY153: Will Social Security Go Bankrupt?

MNY152: You Know Less Than You Think

MNY151: Amazon Impacts Everything

MNY150: Finding Your Perfect Match

MNY149: Do You Have Enough To Retire?

MNY148: Is Your Financial Advisor Loyal To You?

MNY147: Is Infrastructure A Good Investment?

MNY146: How To Decide What To Buy

MNY145: People Like Us Invest Like This

MNY144: Trade Deficits Aren’t Always Bad. Trade Wars Are.

MNY143: Are You Investing, Speculating or Gambling?

MNY142: Why Are Some Countries Wealthier Than Others?

MNY141: The Universal Law You Need To Overcome To Thrive

MNY140: How Climate Change Could Impact Your Investments and Your Life

MNY139: Are You Making Fear-based Financial Decisions

MNY138: Should You Sell Your Stocks Before Trump Takes Office?

MNY137: Is the American Dream Dead?

MNY136: Filter By Asset Class: Featuring Preferred Stock

MNY135: Embrace the Messiness

MNY134: It’s Just Money

MNY133: Interest Rates Are Rising – Four Things You Can Do

MNY132: Trump Wins. Now What?

MNY131: Is This The Creepiest Investment Ever?

MNY130: Should You Buy A Vacation Home?

MNY129: Finding Simplicity On The Other Side of Complexity

MNY128: Is There Too Much Savings?

MNY127: Investing Is Wayfinding

MNY126: Where Federal Money Flows

MNY125: Is The Economy Really Doing That Poorly?

MNY124: Build Your Inventory, Discover Your Theme

MNY123: Why Health Insurance Premiums and Prescription Drug Prices Are Exploding

MNY122: Why Negative Interest Rates Are Dangerous

MNY121: What If Everyone Starts Indexing?

MNY120: Lao Tzu on Living and Investing

MNY119: Investing Won’t Make You Rich

MNY118: Are Renewable Energy ETFs a Good Investment?

MNY117: The Retirement Journey

MNY116: Why Investors Can’t Ignore China

MNY115: How To Get Financially Unstuck

MNY114: Money Is Cheap, Freedom Is Expensive

MNY113: Brexit and the Economics of Immigration

MNY112: Your Retirement Depends On Robots

MNY111: How To Be A Minimalist Investor

MNY110: How To Protect Yourself From Bail Ins

MNY109: Money Is A Time Machine

MNY108: Investing In Real Estate Via Crowdfunding Platforms

MNY107: Work, Freedom and Leaving A Legacy

MNY106: How Worried Should You Be About the National Debt?

MNY105: How Corporate Profits Drive Stock Returns

MNY104: Is It Possible To Win At Trade?

MNY103: How To Reenter the Stock Market

MNY102: What It Takes To Be A Value Investor

MNY101: Why Markets and Economies Are Ceaselessly Creative

MNY100: Navigating A Negative Carry World

MNY099: Money Is Story

MNY098: Why You Need A Lifestyle Business

MNY097: The Great Financial Crisis

MNY096: Five Wealth Lessons From A Stoic

MNY095: Keep Investing Simple

MNY094: How Money Is Created And Destroyed

Episode 93: Capitalism, Complexity and Cuba

Episode 92: What Robo-advisors Recommend

Episode 91: Demography Rules

MNY090: The True Cost and What It Takes To Be Retired

MNY089: How To Outperform The Market

MNY088: Are You A Stock Or A Bond?

MNY087: Is This Normal?

MNY086: Don’t Be A Commodity

MNY085: Are You Home Country Biased?

MNY084: Money Is Trust

MNY083: Please Save More

MNY082: What Assets Return When The Fed Raises Rates

MNY081: When Booms Turn To Bust

MNY080: Investing Means Getting Lost

MNY079: Lump Sums and Life Insurance

MNY078: What If The Economy Stopped Growing Permanently?

MNY077: Does Ethical Investing Outperform?

MNY076: Should You Lend To Your Peers?

MNY075: We Have To Invest Somewhere

MNY074: Capital Flows Where It’s Treated Best

MNY073: Why You Shouldn’t Trade

MNY072: Will A Robot Take Over Your Job

MNY071: Please Don’t Panic

MNY070: Rule #1 and the Investor’s Journey

MNY069: Do You Feel Financially Trapped?

MNY068: Why The Middle Class Is Stagnating

MNY067: When Investments Lose Money

MNY066: Impermanence and Winning By Not Losing

MNY065: Greece – What Really Caused the Crisis and Will It Ever End

MNY064: The Pitfalls of Private Real Estate Investing

MNY063: Alarmists and the Economics of Collapse

MNY062: What Dying Bees Can Teach Us About Asset Bubbles and Income Inequality

MNY061: How Much Can You Spend In Retirement?

MNY060: Are You Investing Or Hoarding?

MNY059: Is Gold Money?

MNY058: Are ETFs and Passive Management Becoming Too Popular?

MNY057: Live Like A Local When Traveling

MNY056: Why We Need Volatility

MNY055: Are You Financially Fragile Or Antifragile?

MNY054: Do You Work To Live Or Live To Work?

MNY053: Should You Invest In Bitcoin?

MNY052: Why Are Interest Rates So Low, Even Negative In Some Cases?

MNY051: Is Deflation Coming?

MNY050: Navigating Early Retirement

MNY049: Is Money Dying?

MNY048: Do You Have Too Little Invested In Stocks?

MNY047: Should You Invest For Income Or Total Return?

MNY046: Discover Your Investment Style

MNY045: Funding the Start Up of You

MNY044: Should You Pay Off Your Mortgage?

MNY043: What Drives Home Prices

MNY042: All Countries Are Insolvent and That’s A Good Thing

MNY041: The Cult of Overwork

MNY040: Should You Invest In Commodities?

MNY039: What Drives Currency Exchange Rates?

MNY038: How To Invest Like A Hedge Fund

MNY037: Gold – Without The Hype and Politics

MNY036: How Wealthy Are You?

MNY035: Investment Performance – What You Need To Know

MNY034: Investment Rules of Thumb

MNY033: To Retire Early, Mind the Gap

MNY032: Die Broke

MNY031: The Role of Luck In Success

30: Are You Sure You’re Diversified?

29: Quantitative Easing – A Big, Fat Placebo

M28: Live By Your Own Financial Rules

27: What Is the Right Price?

26: Why Are Stocks Falling? – A Story

25: Are You A Materialist

24: Timeshares, Preppers and Permanent Portfolios

23: Smart Beta – What Is It and Should You Use It?

22: Will Interest Rates Ever Increase?

21: Investing Without A Map

20: How To Allocate Your Assets

19: Live Like You’re Already Retired

18: Which Investment Vehicles Should You Use?

17: Why China Matters To Your Pocketbook

16: The World Is Getting More Risky

15: Stop Worrying About The Next Market Crash

14: Are You A Complacent Investor?

13: Are You Saving Enough To Retire Early?

12: Currency Trading, Petrodollars and Monetary Collapse

11: Bank Runs, Repos and Your Retirement

10: You’ll Never Be Rich But You Can Live Like You Are

9: What Investment Rate of Return Can You Expect?

8: What If Everyone Worked Only Four Hours Per Day

7: Predicting the Economy and the Stock Market – Can It Be Done?

6: Why You Should Care About The Economy

5: The True Cost of a Thing

4: Seesaws, Budget Deficits and the National Debt

3: Should You Invest In Individual Stocks

2: What Causes Inflation and Deflation

1: What Is Money?