The Stacking Benjamins Show

Bud turns to flower....do negative interest rates turn into better economies? Do students who play sports turn into better investors? Do people who invest in peer-to-peer lending sites have better returns than others? We'll answer ALL of those questions (or at least discuss them) on today's show!

ALSO - Our fun fintech product of the week....CrowdInvest. This is quite an idea: swipe left or right based on your thoughts about a stock. CrowdInvest takes your thoughts, combines them with others, and last year beat the S&P 500 with the results! We talk to Martin Mickus, the founder of CrowdInvest about how it all works.

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How do you become Dave Ramsey? You invest a certain way...and it isn't the way Dave Ramsey tells you to invest. We welcome Joshua Sheats to the show from Radical Personal Finance to talk about becoming wealthy. What does it take? What does that mean for concepts like diversification, risk and insurance planning? We'll cover all of those.

Of course, to honor Joshua, we have a LONG episode today, packed full of fun. In the headlines we'll tackle the reason executives DON'T hire people (it's not what you think). We'll handle a great call about changing investments on the Quotacy hotline, and tackle more on Roth IRAs, diversification and the movie the Big Short. Whew! But that's not all. We have more headlines, trivia and the big "so what" like the cherry on top of the show at the end of the episode.

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You've heard horror stories about Wall Street. Today we talk to someone who lived it. Bestselling author Maureen Sherry joins us to talk about her experiences on Wall Street that led to her new bestseller, Opening Belle (which was recently picked up by Reece Witherspoon's production company to become a motion picture). We also tackle some of the other themes in the book: income disparity between spouses, juggling work and family, and communicating with your spouse.

Speaking of horror story, in our headlines we discuss what might happen if you don't pay your student loans on time. We also answer your letters, take a Quotacy hotline call, and much more.

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Of all of the quotes we'll talk about today, "We're in a system designed to fail" isn't one that you want to hear when talking about retirement...and it's from one of our articles today. Are we destined to fail when it comes to planning our retirement? Are there too many options in our retirement plans? Is there a credit card offer that we won't snatch up? All of those are great questions, and we'll set out to answer them on today's show! Barbara Friedberg from BarbaraFriedbergPersonalFinance joins us to tackle all of these and more.

As if that isn't enough, Suzanne Lucas talks about a hot topic: the fun of adulting. It's a powerful message: you have the power to decide whatever you'd like....

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Bestselling co-author of The Index Card, Helaine Olen joins us to talk about keeping financial planning simple. What are the keys you need to know for financial security? 

Of course, there's much more. We have Property Brothers-related news in the headline segment. On the Quotacy hotline, Harue asks us about student loans and credit scores. We also talk investment fees, Doug's trivia and more.

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Ed Slott joins us to tackle IRAs. What are the biggest pitfalls people fall into when planning their retirement? What new legislation should people be aware of?

Also we talk about a retired football player who does amazing things with his money, about an English major who's not happy, and about financial education with a Quotacy Hotline caller!

That, Doug's trivia and more on today's show!

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Tucker the intern rewinds back to episode 66, when OG made a rare appearance on our roundtable with Greg and Barbara Friedberg.

At the midway point of our break, Tucker the Intern rewinds to episode 145, when Joe & OG talk about hiring a good financial advisor and suing your parents.

Today Tucker the intern rewinds to the week hot 007 movie Skyfall opened. At the time, this James Bond themed show garnered our most downloads to date. Encouraged, we tried the same thing a few weeks later when The Hobbit opened, and that episode was a total flop.

We've already repeated The Hobbit episode during an earlier break, so we thought it was fitting to go back and replay this oldie. Enjoy!

Roll the drums, because Dom's back! With everyone flooding to passive index funds, does is there a huge opportunity now for active investors? Does it mean that passive funds might suffer because of groupthink? We ask Paula, Len and special guest Dominique Brown from YourFinancesSimplified that question. Plus we tackle mixing work and play, and when it's the right time to get your estate plan in order.

Plus we take a look at another cool new FinTech product: TipYourself. You tip everyone else, why not tip yourself first? It's a great new idea and we're happy to talk to founder Mike Lenz.

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