The age-old question, should I buy growth stocks, should I buy value stocks, or should I just own both? In the month of March, a lot of our favorite growth names were hammered as institutional money moved into value. Should we abandon the ship and follow them? Nate and Derek play a game and compete to see whose growth stocks and whose value stocks will outperform in the rest of 2021. Enjoy!

We talk about stocks, bonds, and REITs... but what about owning physical real estate. Andrew Bang is a doctor of chiropractic and residential real estate investor who owns many properties in the Cleveland area. He gives his insights on real estate investing. The good bad and the ugly of owning real estate. Enjoy!

The Federal Government recently passed another 1.9 trillion dollar stimulus package and is now talking about a 2 trillion dollar infrastructure bill. We talk about how this affects your investments in the short and long term and also where to put your money to make the most out of this environment.

We all have to pay taxes but none of us want to pay more than we are required.  We share moves you can make with your investment accounts to reduce current and future taxation.  

In this episode we discuss credit cards with budgeting expert Katelyn Lamb.  We uncover some of the traps credit card companies use to entice cardholders to take on more debt than they can pay off.  We also reveal some of the little known benefits to using credit cards. If used responsibly, the perks of credit cards extend far beyond cash back or travel miles.  Learn how a credit card may actually strengthen your financial health. 

Hobbies enrich our lives and bring us happiness. Everyone should have four types of hobbies: hobbies that make you healthy, wealthy, happy and smarter.  Derek and Nate share a few of their hobbies in each category and discuss how we make room for those hobbies in our lives. 

The stock market can be a volatile place to store wealth and traders attempt to make a profit by timing market fluctuations.  Should we be attempting to time the market as long-term investors?  In this episode, we go to our back-test models to find out. We also give a moment of silence for the greatest podcast that will never be heard. 

Publicly traded companies and investment funds are increasingly using Bitcoin and cryptocurrency as an alternative investment and store of value.   Learn how you can gain indirect exposure to bitcoin through your investments. We also discussed defi or decentralized finance and what it means for individual investors and consumers.

How to start investing from scratch with no prior experience.  Also 5G, what did we miss? 

We have fielded a lot of calls over the past two weeks on short selling and Gamestop.  What is a short? What are the mechanisms of a short squeeze and what are the dangers? 

We answer it all.