Perhaps the most dangerous assumption an investor can make is that the future will behave like the past they personally remember.
Rodrigo Gordillo learned that lesson early, and it became the foundation of his investment philosophy. Rather than trying to predict...
The promise of passive income is simple: build enough wealth, and eventually your money works so you don’t have to. The reality is more demanding.
For Bronson Hill, the real measure of financial independence isn’t how much income an investment generates,...
Most investors are trained to think about returns first and taxes later. Tom Wheelwright argues that separating the two can leave a remarkable amount of wealth on the table.
Taxes can amplify an investment’s return just as easily as they can...
For generations, prosperity rested on a simple idea: produce more than you consume, save the difference, and leave something behind for those who come next.
Jeff Deist argues that today’s monetary system has steadily reversed those incentives, rewarding debt and consumption...
Doug Casey argues that investors often prepare for the wrong risks. Markets rise and fall, commodities fluctuate, and economies expand and contract.
Yet The International Man contends that the greatest threats to wealth often emerge from the political and monetary...
Douglass Lodmell challenges a common assumption about protecting wealth: accumulating assets and protecting them are not the same skill.
Many investors devote years to building their net worth, yet spend surprisingly little time considering how easily a single legal dispute...
In this episode, Mike Green argues that many of the frustrations people experience today aren't isolated problems. Instead, they're symptoms of a deeper failure in how the economy measures, communicates, and allocates value.
When the signals that are supposed to...
For decades, investors have relied on a familiar assumption: when markets become uncertain, bonds provide stability.
Darius Dale argues that this assumption no longer reflects today's financial reality.
If the structural forces that shaped the last forty years have fundamentally changed,...
Chris Whalen argues that investors may be focusing on the wrong risks.
While markets remain captivated by AI and expectations for lower interest rates, he believes tighter liquidity, fragile credit markets, and disruptions to global energy supply chains are quietly...
Many investors worry about a weakening U.S. dollar, but are they watching the wrong risk?
In this conversation, George Gammon argues that persistent dollar strength could place growing pressure on foreign economies, disrupt global trade, and create unintended consequences for the...
