Discover how the tax code rewards certain types of investing. SHOW NOTES: 7:23: How Can The IRS Become A Wealth-Building Partner? 12:05: How Is The Tax Code A Guidebook To Successful Investing? 14:28: How Do You Progress From Being Rich To Being Wealthy? 17:44: What Motivates The Government To Offer Tax Incentives? 25:45: How Is It Patriotic To Pay Fewer Taxes?

Discover how inflation impacts stock trading, and how to build a trading plan to navigate these inflationary times. SHOW NOTES: 4:56: What Do Traders Need To Know About Current Inflation? 10:14: What Do Traders Need To Know About Current Money Supplies? 15:59: What Sectors Gain Strength During Inflation? 29:39: How Did Inflation Expose Crypto Currencies? 42:53: How Does Inflation Create Trading Opportunities?

Discover how to change your mind – and the minds of others – in this discussion with David McRaney. SHOW NOTES: 4:53: How Unaware Are Humans? 11:04: How Can Humans Improve By Raising Awareness Of Being Wrong? 17:27: What Is The Best Way To Change Your Own Mind? 26:35: How Does The Fear Of Social Death Impact The Brain? 33:11: What Did The GameStop Event Teach Us About The Minds Of Investors? 50:22: How Can Truth Be Found In A Post-Truth World?

Discover how to achieve and maintain high performance in business and at home. Alan Stein Jr. joins Andy to discuss his work with high-performance athletes and business leaders. SHOW NOTES: 6:59: How Does High Performance Begin With Respect For The Basics? 11:06: How Is Mastery Of The Basics Simple But Not Easy? 19:23: What Causes Burnout? 23:50: How Are Burnout & Stagnation Different? 29:59: How Can You Bulletproof Your Performance?

Discover how America’s sophisticated economic system lends itself to so many cycles of boom-and-bust. SHOW NOTES: 2:53: What Does The Savings & Loan Failure Teach Us About Today’s Economic Stress? 7:38: What Causes America’s Economic Failures? 11:44: How Do Financial Regulators Fail? 19:08: How Is Financial Illiteracy The Biggest Risk? 24:47: How Is Confidence The Key To Any Financial System? 32:59: How Damaging Is Q.E.? 37:19: How Have Bailouts Created More Economic Risk? 39:56: What Current Options Does The U.S. Have Today To Avoid Another Bust? 43:09: Why Are The Best Financial Minds Wary Of Helping The Government? 46:29: How Is China “Beating” The U.S.? 48:25: How Will China Win The A.I. Race? 54:37: What Are The Chances The Dollar Falters As World Reserve Currency?

Food prices are skyrocketing. Food shortages are more frequent. Global food crises are predicted. Andy speaks with a food economist who offers insight into the next expected economic crisis. SHOW NOTES: 9:01: What Is The Risk Of A Global Food Shortage? 11:07: How Would Localizing Food Production Impact Inflation? 14:44: How Can Food Inflation Lead To Social Unrest? 18:50: How Fragile Are Food Supply Chains? 24:54: How Does Food Inflation Impact The Psychology Of A Country? 29:56: How Does Specialized Production Increase Risk? 35:30: How Likely Is A Near-Term Recession In The U.S.?

Discover how economics are understood as a series of tradeoffs. Our economic policies are too often convoluted with ingredients that stray from common sense. Matthew Hennessey joins Andy to discuss how you can cut through “magical thinking” and use economics to make better choices. SHOW NOTES: 5:28: Why Are So Many People Intimidated By Economics? 7:33: How Have Economics Become “Over-Credentialized?” 10:17: How Is MMT An Example Of Economic “Magical Thinking?” 14:54: How Are Economics A Series Of Choices? 30:42: What Can Steve Jobs Teach Us About Economics? 38:08: What’s Wrong With The Fed Printing Money To Solve Problems?

Discover how the U.S. will fund the future. Richard Duncan joins Andy to discuss money, credit and the future of the markets. SHOW NOTES: 17:46: How Has The Fed Changed Over The Last 100 Years? 21:53: How Did The Fed Become The World’s Most Powerful Economic Institution? 25:49: How Did The Money Revolution Occur? 34:18: How Did Globalization Enable The Fed To Print Massive Amounts Of Money? 38:26: How Is Our Economic System Addicted To Credit? 45:31: How Can Economic Dogma Limit Investors? 56:10: How Should The Fed Fund The Future? 1:09: How Can The Fed Control Inflation? 1:23: How Must The Fed Spend To Secure The U.S. From China? 1:38: How Can The U.S. Best Feed Its Addiction To Credit?

Discover how runaway inflation is impacting investing, wealth and the psychology of Americans. Economist Jay Prag joins Andy to discuss the likelihood of reversing inflation with a recession. SHOW NOTES: 6:06: How Is The Fed Fueling Inflation? 11:39: Why Has Economy Not Entered Hyperinflation? 20:54: How Does The Ukraine War Impact Inflation? 26:05: How Does The Fed Behave Like An Addict? 35:05: How Will The Dollar’s Role Change? 41:10: How Is Russia’s Gold Purchasing Impacting The Global Economy? 44:43: How Do You Financially Plan For Inflation & Recession? 49:54: Why Are So Many Americans Embracing Socialism? 51:06: Is MMT A Failure? 54:56: What Is The Future Of Crypto? 1:06: Why Is The Economic Outlook For 2022 So Uncertain?

SUMMARY: Discover how America and China are waging a financial war that impacts every citizen around the globe.   SHOW NOTES: 5:42: How Does Bretton Woods Frame The Current Financial Cold War? 11:17: Why Is The Dollar Still The Reserve Currency? 14:48: Is The Digital Yuan Likely To Overtake The Dollar As Reserve Currency? 16:33: Why Are The Saudis Considering Payment For Oil In Yuan? 24:02: What Is America’s “Burden Of A Superpower?” 29:43: Is The Current Global Financial System Sustainable? 32:21: How Will Efficiency Determine The Future Of Money? 35:43: Is Capitalism In Danger Of Collapsing? 44:29: How Does Japan Project The Future Of The U.S.? 52:13: How Will The Ukraine War Impact U.S.-China Relations?