The Investing for Beginners Podcast - Your Path to Financial Freedom

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May 07, 2020 IFB150: Economy Basics Pt2 – Inflation, Deflation, and Currency

Announcer (00:00):

You’re tuned in to the Investing for Beginners podcast.
Finally, step by step premium investment guidance for beginners led by Andrew
Sather and Dave Ahern. To decode industry jargon, silence crippling confusion,
and help you overcome emotions by looking at the numbers, your path to
financial freedom starts now.

Dave (00:36):

All right, folks, we’ll welcome to Investing for Beginners
podcast. This is episode 150 tonight; we’re going to continue our discussion on
the economy. Talk a little bit about economic basics. This is going to be part
two. We’re going to talk a little bit about inflation, deflation,
hyperinflation, money, some of those fun topics. And we’ll try to make it
interesting for you guys, so you don’t go into a snooze fest. I was just
kidding. So I’m going to start us off a little bit and talk about a few of the
basics. So let’s talk a little bit about inflation and deflation. So basically,
inflation is the increase in prices for supply and demand. So goods and
services. So when goods and services and their prices rise, so that would be
considered inflation. The opposite of that would be deflation. So that when the
prices of supplies and, or I’m sorry, goods and services decrease, that would
be deflation. Now, most people think that inflation is a bad thing, and it’s
not a when prices are rising; generally, that’s a good thing because, along
with that, typically then wages are going to rise at the same time.

Dave (01:50):

So inflation can be a good thing and the only, there are
times when it’s going to be bad. So, for example, something like
hyperinflation, hyperinflation is when the prices rise more than 50% in a
month. And that’s not good because wages are not going to increase at that
weight, at that rate, which means that things are going to cost more and we’re
not going to be able to buy as much. And as we’ve talked about before, that all
kind of feeds into the economy. So when we’re talking about inflation and
deflation, we’re also talking about the monetary supply. So the monetary
supply, how that impacts both of those is when there’s credit expansion, and
there’s too much money in this system. Kind of like what’s happening right now
is the cysts. They’re flooding the economy with a lot of money. And what they’re
trying to do is they’re trying to tamp down on inflation by doing that because
when there’s too much money in the supply system that just me or the monetary
system, that means that there’s too much money chasing prices and it helps
lower the prices.

Dave (02:58):

Now, if they contract the money, in other words, they make
credit harder to get, and the money in the system gets harder to get out into
the system.
33 min
May 07, 2020 IFB150: Economy Basics Pt2 - Inflation, Deflation and Currency

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37 min
April 30, 2020 IFB149: Economy Basics Pt1 - What Will Covid Affect

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April 30, 2020 IFB149: Economy Basics Pt1 – What Will Covid Affect

Announcer (00:00):

You’re tuned in to the Investing for Beginners podcast.
Finally, step by step premium investment guidance for beginners led by Andrew
Sather and Dave Ahern. To decode industry jargon, silence crippling confusion
and help you overcome emotions by looking at the numbers. Your path to
financial freedom starts now.

Dave (00:41):

All right folks, welcome to Investing for Beginners
podcast. Tonight Andrew and I have been talking, and he thought we would do it
all basics of the economy. So we haven’t taught, we’ve touched a little bit on
economics in the past, and we thought maybe this would be a good time
considering everything that’s going on with the economy in the world that
there’s going to be some dues of different things happening over the next six
months to a year plus that the talking heads on the news, we’ll talk about
things and it might upset people a bit. And so we thought maybe we could spend
a little bit of time and talk about some of those issues and some of the things
that are going on and help clear things up a little bit so that when you come
across things you, it helps ease your mind a little bit. So Andrew, why don’t
you go ahead and kind of start us off, and we can chat a little bit about this.

Andrew (01:29):

Yeah, sure. I think it’s very important to kind of
understand the economy and the right context. Obviously, as investors, we are a
big part of the economy and what the comment, what the economy does is going to
affect the businesses we own, the businesses in our portfolios, and how they
perform.

Andrew (01:49):

And so I think it’s very easy as an investor to get caught
in our little sliver of, well I have this business, I have that business. And
then you kind of take what you hear on the news, take what you hear, what you
see from the different publications, and you get little snippets from it, and
that’s great. But if you don’t understand the big picture and you don’t zoom
out and try to get a grasp of that, I think sometimes looking at that can be
more harmful than helpful. So as an example, it’s very easy for us to look. So
if you’ve listened to our podcast at all, you know that I am very, very big on
learning from the past and trying to understand that things move in cycles and
things that happened in the past tend to happen again, sometimes in a different
form.

Andrew (02:51):

So history doesn’t necessarily repeat, but it tends to
rhyme. And so it’s very easy for investors to make simplified ideas and make
big investment decisions out of those. And those don’t always turn out in the
34 min
April 23, 2020 IFB148: Brokerages To Avoid in 2020

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April 23, 2020 IFB148: Brokers to Avoid in 2020

Announcer (00:00):

You’re tuned in to the Investing for Beginners podcast. Finally, step by step premium investment guidance for beginners, led by Andrew Sather and Dave Ahern. To decode industry jargon, silence crippling confusion, and help you overcome emotions by looking at the numbers, your path to financial freedom starts now.

Dave (00:35):

All right, folks, we’ll welcome to the Investing for
Beginners podcast. This is episode 140 tonight. Andrew and I are going to talk
about which brokers to avoid in 2020. Andrew has some stories you’d like to
share with us, as well as I do. And we wanted to talk a little bit about some
of the brokers that we’ve worked with and some of them we’ve had some success
with as well as some that are you need to avoid. So I’m going to go ahead and
turn it over to Andrew, and he’s going to go ahead and start our little
diatribe here,

Andrew (01:04):

Diatribe. It’s, gets it done. So I guess let’s talk about
the big one first. Let’s talk about Robin hood, one that neither of us has
personal experience with; however, many, many people have. And I guess if
you’re not a part of forums where Robin Hood is a popular platform, you might
not be aware of the issues that have happened. So I think we should bring light
to that cause it can have some serious implications for investors, particularly
because we get so many questions about Robinhood. Like still, even though
we’ve, we’ve covered Robin hood in the past on the podcast, I still get
questions about that all the time. It tends to be one of those brokers that
attracts a lot of new investors. And so be aware of what some of these brokers
don’t offer compared to what some of them do because there’s a big difference
between a good broker and a bad broker. And it could burn you at the worst time
when you’re not expecting it. So Dave, tell us about some of the things that
have been happening with Robinhood lately.

Dave (02:10):

Okay. Well, there are three things that I am aware of as
far as issues that they’ve had recently. And when I say recently, I’m talking
about in the last two or three months. So two times that they have had issues
with their platform have stopped. No has stopped working completely where
people have not been able to trade buy or sell anything on their platform for a
period of time. So with all the craziness that’s been going on lately with the
stock market, there have been several days where people have not been able to
sell any of their companies or by any of their companies because they have lost
the ability to them to do anything on their platform. So that in itself is a
huge problem. So let’s say just for example, you’re in a company, a Tesla, and
you see that the stock price is falling from $800 a share to have, I have $100
36 min
April 16, 2020 IFB147: How Does the Fed Affect Joe Schmoe

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46 min
April 09, 2020 IFB146: Will A Company Go Bankrupt With Months of No Revenue

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44 min
April 02, 2020 IFB145: Finding Great Balance Sheets with Braden Dennis

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53 min
March 26, 2020 IFB144: Personal Finance with Andy Shuler

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52 min

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