How Much Should Your Net Worth Grow Each Year?
The intricate dance between profession, risk, lifestyle, and luck in determining how net worth grows.Topics covered include:The various factors that shape the growth of net worth, including profession...
10 Jan 202426min
Should You Be Invested 100% Stocks Before and During Retirement? A Recent Study Says Yes
The pros and cons of investing your retirement assets 100% in equity, including half in international stocks. Why the 4% spending rule is too aggressive.Why historical asset class return studies that ...
3 Jan 202425min
Listener Q&A on Investing and Living
We close out 2023 by answering your questions on active vs passive management, market timing, investing for status, what we learned from Charlie Munger, thoughts on a coming recession, worst investmen...
13 Dec 202344min
Dissecting Stock Returns: Financial Engineering or Genuine Growth?
Do the impressive returns in public and private markets stem from strategic financial engineering or reflect actual economic growth?How corporate profit growth is linked to economic growth, even thoug...
6 Dec 202327min
AI's Fork in the Road: Societal Bliss or Existential Threat?
One year after the release of ChatGPT, we explore the positive and negative paths AI could take and what individuals can do to assist with a positive outcome.Topics covered include:How David uses AI t...
29 Nov 202324min
Using a Checklist Approach To Investing - The Money for the Rest of Us Philosophy
In this bonus episode, David visits with Bill Yount and Becky Heptig of the Catching Up to Fi podcast in a wide-ranging discussion on investing using a systematic checklist approach.SponsorsMadison Tr...
22 Nov 20231h 18min
Is Tourism Harmful or Helpful? The Economic and Cultural Impact of Global Travel
What are the economic and cultural benefits of tourism. What are the downsides to too much tourism. How to find the right balance.Topics covered include:How short-term rentals have changed tourismHow ...
15 Nov 202326min
Easier Investing, Richer Life: TIPS Ladders to Annuities
What are the pros and cons of partially funding retirement expenses with an inflation-indexed bond ladder versus an immediate annuity? There is a big downside to TIPS ladders that many investors don't...
8 Nov 202327min
