What are examples of when it makes sense to pay more than the usual price or fair value for an item or asset?Topics covered include:Why we are willing to pay a premium for convenience, scarcity, status and to avoid wasteWhat is the difference between... Details

With many of the largest tech stocks falling over 20% year-to-date, is now the time to invest? Has the market changed to where tech investing is a safe bet?Topics covered include:What happened to NetflixWhat contributed to the astounding performance ... Details

What causes secular bull and bear markets in commodities. What factors suggest a new commodities bull market has started and how can investors participate. What are the risks.Topics include:What is a bull and bear marketHow long have earlier commodit... Details

How contrarians combine value and momentum to take positions opposite what the consensus believes. What is the consensus view in today's financial markets and how are contrarians positioned.Topics covered include:Five attributes of successful investo... Details

Why food costs are soaring and what we can do about it. Why inflation rates could start to drop. Why commodity futures, including agriculture futures, have been lousy inflation hedges, and what has worked better.Topics covered include:Previous invest... Details

We review the ten asset categories that trade on major stock exchanges, many of which are smaller niches in which individual investors have an edge over institutional investors.How to invest in business development companies, a small segment of the m... Details

Stories determine economic and financial outcomes, both our own and the world in aggregate. Here's how to craft and follow stories that will lead to better financial outcomes and greater happiness.Topics covered include:How financial narratives give ... Details

This week, we revisit a classic episode released five years ago. In a newly recorded introduction, David shares the background on the episode and why he chose to release it again in its newly edited form.Topics covered include:The availability heuris... Details

How societies have functioned without leaders, including leaderless megacities that survived over 800 years.Topics covered include:Is geopolitics more like chess or pokerWhy analysts think Putin will soon agree to a settlement with UkraineDo most dev... Details

Will the world experience both inflation and subpar economic growth at the same time?Topics covered include:What is inflation and what causes itWhat have been the largest contributors to recent high inflationWhy does not everyone experience inflation... Details

What can we do to prepare if the Russian-Ukraine war gets even worse?Topics covered include:How risk and uncertainty differ as does how we manage themWhat we can learn from Ukraine and Russian citizens on dealing with uncertaintyWhat will be the fina... Details

How to decide the investing scale and timeframe that works best for your temperament.Topics covered include:How stocks perform in the days and weeks following catastrophic eventsWhat are some potential financial impacts of Russia's invasion into Ukra... Details

Key takeaways from one of the greatest personal finance novels of all time.Topics covered include:Why it is easier to keep doing the same old thingWhy partners should discuss their financesWhy debt can be suffocatingWhy leverage can be dangerousOne o... Details

How lifecycle investing and risk parity portfolios can assist you in having sufficient assets to retire. What are the two types of time diversification and why is one flawed?Topics covered include:What is settled work and what are some examplesHow do... Details

How stablecoins are similar and different from other monetary assets. What are stablecoin risks. Why central bank digital currencies are one of the biggest threats to stablecoins.Topics covered include:Why the Federal Reserve and other central banks ... Details

We explore four reasons to sell an asset with a focus on the Ark Innovation ETF, Bitcoin, and equity REITs. We also put the current stock market sell-off into historical perspective.Topics covered include:What are lousy reasons to sell an investmentW... Details

What are the pros and cons of the four approaches to managing retirement savings. How to implement a bucketing or time segmentation retirement investing approach.Topics covered include:Why it takes time to find a retirement pattern that fitsHow retir... Details

Small and mid-cap stocks have underperformed large-cap stocks for over a decade. Is now the time to increase your allocation?Topics covered include:How big are small and mid-cap stocksHow have small and mid-cap stocks performed relative to large-cap ... Details

We answer listener questions in our final episode of 2021.Topics covered include:Estimating financial market returns in the next thirty yearsInvesting in artWhether stocks will no longer existHow to start investingFidelity's new Bitcoin ETFHow mutual... Details

What is Web 3.0 and how will it transform the world? How you can invest your time and money in decentralized autonomous organizations and other Web3 projects.Topics covered include:What are Web 1.0, Web 2.0, and Web 3.0 and how do they differWhat are... Details