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A podcast to help you get an insider’s view of the financial world and escape common investment traps. Each week, we look at the financial news of the day and help you make sense of it so you can relax about money.
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Today, Evan shares about the shift that has been happening in younger Americans away from free market capitalism toward more socialist economic policies. Evan wants you to be able to understand the basics behind these economic systems and why capitalism has created the wealthiest nation in the world, while socialism has never successfully been implemented to scale anywhere in the world at any point in history.
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Today, Evan hosts the show and discusses what keeps investors from reaching their goals and why, each year, investor performance reports show that people earn less than market returns. Listen along to hear why investor behavior is the most important factor to the outcome of your portfolio and which behaviors to avoid and adopt in your investing journey.
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Paul and Evan get into a discussion about the 4 million Americans who have chosen to live abroad to stretch their dollars and experience a higher quality of life. Listen along to hear how it is going for these Americans and if we can expect to see this trend grow. Later in the episode, Paul and Evan find many people turning to AI instead of advisors for financial advice. Unfortunately, these investors don’t know how to prompt AI for the right kind of information, are asking the wrong questions, and are getting back bad information provided by financial companies' marketing firms.
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Paul and Evan hit a variety of topics in this episode, starting with Tesla’s future and Musk’s incentives to stay with the company, and then pivoting to a pet peeve of Paul’s: trying to use money to solve relationship problems. Listen along as these two advisors discuss innovation in business and why getting married shouldn’t be a financial decision, but rather a commitment between partners.
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The average first-time homebuyer is almost 40 now — up almost seven years since 2020. Paul and Evan discuss the challenges of being a first-time homebuyer in today's market and the shifting attitudes toward home ownership. Listen along as these advisors share the steps of purchasing your first home, some advice they have for people considering home ownership, and why first-time homebuyers shouldn’t be afraid to start small and wait until the time is right.
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Paul and Evan continue a conversation they had last week about how the promises made by socialist governments are similar to those made by the investing industry. The industry wants you to believe that they have a group of experts who can choose the best companies for your portfolio. Listen along to hear why confident investors don’t trust the industry to gamble with their investments. Later in the episode, Paul shares a story about a famous fund manager who has repeatedly been wrong yet still has managed to get airtime.
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Progress comes through effort. Paul and Evan share an interview about how socialism is being marketed to people around the world as a cure for their problems. The problem is that when we look at socialist governments, they have not been good for the people they serve. Listen along to hear why capitalism can be a hard sell to people, but has so far proven to give the most opportunity to the most people. Paul shares that the way people get sold on bad investments is the same way people get sold on socialism through the belief that they can sidestep the work and get straight to the results.
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The industry is looking to pull you into investments that let them charge you more fees to manage your portfolio. Private equity is making headlines this year and being sold as a unique opportunity for you to invest in the same things uber-wealthy investors do, but everyone fails to mention that this is similar to ESG investing, with lots of hype, lots of risk, and worse returns.
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Today, Paul shares an infomercial on gold that goes in-depth into bank runs and presidential executive orders, trying to convince you that gold has always been a strong investment. Listen along as Paul expands on this education to help you understand that they are priming you for a sale, not offering you financial advice out of the kindness of their hearts. Later in the episode, Evan brings up the latest attempt to push investors into crypto and explains why the house always wins in speculative investing.
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Property fraud affects many property owners who don’t understand their rights or how to safeguard their ownership. Today, Paul invites Holly Hemmrich, Register of Deeds for Sumner County, to talk about how to properly own and safeguard your property, as well as insurance products to avoid, free resources for property owners, and how to spot scammers.
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Paul wants you to know that one of the most dangerous things you can do is get into a room with an advisor who knows how to manipulate your emotions and sell you a product that gives them high commissions. Today, Paul shares a video where someone is teaching you how to sell annuities, right down to the words to say and body language to use to make you feel safe and consider the product. By learning these tactics, you can learn to spot the difference between financial help and sales.
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Today, Paul talks about cap-weighted funds, a popular method for trying to represent an area of the market through capitalization. Listen along to hear what these funds are, what capitalization means, and why companies call these funds diversified, but leave millions of investors mostly owning a few of America’s largest companies.
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Many Americans experience a similar experience straight out of college. They have hefty student loans and potentially the lowest pay of their entire careers. Today, Paul talks about his experience of first moving to Nashville, walks through a WSJ article about paying off student debt, and shares some of the crazy things people do in their early days to get on the right financial track. He then segues into a conversation about new information on 2026 tax brackets.
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Mutual fund companies are professional marketers. Today, Paul talks about how often these companies say all the right things about diversification. Confident investors learn to look past what the companies' marketing materials say and see that the investments they are selling tell a much different story. Later in the episode, Paul wants investors to understand that the run-up in gold isn’t a fluke, but it also isn’t because gold is such a good investment to own.
Want to cut through the myths about retirement income and learn evidence-based strategies backed by over a century of data? Download our free Retirement Income Guide now at paulwinkler.com/relax and take the stress out of planning your retirement.
Fund companies, media outlets, and even advisors are constantly vying for your attention to sell you products and services. So how do you learn to cut through the noise and make the decisions that are right for you? In a two-part episode, Paul covers these topics and teaches you how to develop confidence in your financial goals and the plan that will help you get there. Listen along to hear how Nobel Prize-winning strategies can help you understand how goals, plans, and products can all work together to help you feel confident about investing.
Want to cut through the myths about retirement income and learn evidence-based strategies backed by over a century of data? Download our free Retirement Income Guide now at paulwinkler.com/relax and take the stress out of planning your retirement.
Fund companies, media outlets, and even advisors are constantly vying for your attention to sell you products and services. So how do you learn to cut through the noise and make the decisions that are right for you? In a two-part episode, Paul covers these topics and teaches you how to develop confidence in your financial goals and the plan that will help you get there. Listen along to hear how Nobel Prize-winning strategies can help you understand how goals, plans, and products can all work together to help you feel confident about investing.
Want to cut through the myths about retirement income and learn evidence-based strategies backed by over a century of data? Download our free Retirement Income Guide now at paulwinkler.com/relax and take the stress out of planning your retirement.
When Paul asks most beginner investors, “What is a financial advisor's job supposed to be?” he usually gets a familiar answer that involves understanding how markets work, being in the right part of the market at the right time, and knowing the best products to own. Today, Paul reveals that this is actually a lie perpetuated by the financial media, as most people you see weighing in on TV are being paid to be there. Listen along as Paul helps you understand the media bias around timing the market and buying investments after they’ve already gone up.
Want to cut through the myths about retirement income and learn evidence-based strategies backed by over a century of data? Download our free Retirement Income Guide now at paulwinkler.com/relax and take the stress out of planning your retirement.
There has been a lot of talk about AI and whether or not eager investors have created a bubble in AI stock that could hurt all investors. Today, Paul talks about market bubbles and why they are more dangerous to some than others, and why the activity we see around AI stocks doesn't look like an irrational run-up just yet.
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Jim Kramer is taking every opportunity to sell young investors on his new book and the idea of “making it big” investing. Listen along as Paul talks about why pundits like this get a lot of airtime even though their advice has historically been a disaster to take.
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The industry likes to push investors into popular and predictable investments with low returns and low diversification. The result of this is a dwindling portfolio and an inflation problem in your 80s and beyond. Listen along as Paul explains why the strategies and products that promise you “safety” will actually lead to you running out of money at the worst possible time: after you are no longer able to work.
Want to cut through the myths about retirement income and learn evidence-based strategies backed by over a century of data? Download our free Retirement Income Guide now at paulwinkler.com/relax and take the stress out of planning your retirement.
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