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Welcome back to the Crux of Investing & Finance! We are diving deep into portfolio management with this week's topic. Portable Alpha is a strategy first founded by PIMCO in the 1980s and since then the strategy of separating alpha and beta of a portfolio to earn market returns while also actively trading to produce alpha has consistently outperformed the market! Sounds crazy, right? Listen now...

Welcome back to the Crux of Investing & Finance! This week's topic is hot news! The SEC just announced they are implementing a new rule on climate risk reporting for publicly traded companies. This means that climate risk and various environmental aspects of companies will no longer be private information and will be required to be shared with the public. Listen now and learn all about how thi...

Welcome back to the Crux of Investing & Finance! This week we continue our educational segment on short-selling where we complete your knowledge of how it works and how to use it best in your trading and investing. We cover some very frequently discussed metrics utilized in order to determine short-sale interest, and go through some worked examples of the uptick rule, a short sale including a...

Welcome back to the podcast! This week's ITT episode discusses a recent Twitter conversation between Elon Musk and Michael Saylor, CEO of Microstrategy. They discuss tactics to battle inflation and their takes on cryptocurrency and offer some insights for good stock picks for growth as well as where to keep your money to avoid the trap of inflation. Until Sunday...Jay

Welcome back to the Crux of Investing & Finance! This week's lecture focuses on the often-neglected side of the market -- short selling. Although short positions carry risk, proper risk management and trade management can easily alleviate this risk and allow it to be used as an effective money-making tool. The most important aspect is its ability to make you money in any kind of market which c...

Welcome back to the Crux of Investing & Finance! Supply chains have been struggling to keep up with global demand since the early stages of the pandemic. Many shocks along the way have transformed the industry such that it was in the early stages of global recovery. Various events have recently caused both the shipping industry and supply chains for many goods to be much less effective and may...

Welcome back to the Crux of Investing & Finance! This week's lecture elaborates on the idea of the long-term economic impacts that Russia's invasion of Ukraine will have on both countries and the global economy. We pull data and facts from the 1998 financial crisis in Russia and draw similarities between the two scenarios to entertain the idea of a second government debt default event occurrin...

Welcome back to the Crux of Investing & Finance! This week we take a look at the Russia and Ukraine conflict under the microscope and try to determine what the longer-term impact will be on the global economy. Sanctions and other financial protective measures have been employed by the west to try and mitigate the severity of the war, but Russia among other countries will suffer greatly from th...

Welcome back to the Crux of Investing & Finance! This week's lecture is a special one and focuses on our 2022 post-covid holdings! Our focus is heavily on the side of index funds and diversification since it is one of the wonders of the world. Holding individual stocks in large proportions can be very dangerous and risky, whereas index funds allow us a way to utilize their built-in diversifica...

Welcome back to the Cruz of Investing & Finance! This week we take a look at a current event that is tragic and horrifying, but we try to bring some light by explaining how cryptocurrency is being used to better the situation for Ukraine. Our thoughts and prayers go out to those affected, we should not be dealing with this in 2022. Until Sunday...Jay

Welcome back to the Crux of Investing & Finance! This week's lecture covers fractional reserve banking. It has been the default method for developed countries for central banking for over 300 years and there is a reason for this. The ability to have reserves put aside in order to mitigate the risk of bankruptcy of commercial banks or a liquidity squeeze when a bank run occurs is a major upside...

Welcome back to the Crux of Investing & Finance! This week's episode discusses the key differences between crypto coins and tokens, something that is often confused in the industry. Why can tokens be useful? Why are coins necessary? Are transaction costs a key part of the distinction? Listen now to find out! Until Sunday...Jay

Welcome back to the Crux of Investing & Finance! This week we are discussing compound interest. It is debatably the 8th wonder of the world and is single-handedly the reason millions of investors have retired rich and with enormous sums of money. Utilizing compound interest by buying and holding long-term while dollar-cost averaging by adding money often to your investments is the key to succe...

Welcome back to the Crux of Investing & Finance! This week we are taking a look at the investing side. A lot of investors have joined the markets since 2020 with everyone staying home and being bored, but many lack the basic understanding to succeed in the markets. One of the key ways to do so is by understanding compound interest and the Rule of 72! By adding money to your investments monthly...

Welcome back to the Crux of Investing & Finance! This week we are discussing deflation, the much-less-talked-about smaller brother of inflation that plagues news outlets these days. Deflation is unique in that it actually benefits the economy if it is slow-growing and increases purchasing power of your dollars. It becomes dangerous when an economy is highly leveraged - meaning it has large amo...

Welcome back to the Crux of Investing & Finance! This week's Investonomics Topic Tuesday is a continuation of our discussion from Sunday on Quantitative Easing. We touch more closely and thoroughly on the covid-19 impact and how QE has played a role in inflationary pressures and how it will need to be reversed to stabilize the dollar. Hope you enjoy it and until Sunday...Jay

Welcome back to the Crux of Investing & Finance! This week we take a closer look at quantitative easing, one of the many tools that a central bank can use to stimulate the economy and vary inflationary pressures. Listen to this episode to learn how it works, why and when it is effective and how it affects the equity and bond markets. Until Tuesday...Jay

Welcome back to the Crux of Investing & Finance! This week we are discussing a very novel idea in the traditional finance world: A tradFi bank is issuing a stablecoin through a partnership with a large blockchain company. This is huge for the crypto world and is likely to change payments as we know them. Listen to learn more! Until Sunday...Jay

Welcome back to the Crux of Investing & Finance! This week we are discussing crypto staking, the newest version of the proof of work or mining model, called proof of stake. Essentially, this smarter system for 'mining' coins through collateralization of the user's coins allows for less energy expenditure compared to traditional mining, and improved efficiency and security as well. Learn how to...

Welcome back to the Crux of Investing & Finance! This week's ITT episode focuses on an important current event: the selling off of all major markets. Crypto, stocks, real estate, you name it, they are seeing the worst month since March 2020. Why is this happening? Are there root causes or is this just a pullback from the amazing times we have had in the past year and a half? Listen to this wee...

Welcome back to the Crux of Investing & Finance! This week we dive back into the options world and discuss our first options strategy to make some extra income on stocks you are already holding in your portfolio. Listen carefully, there's lots of details and don't forget to follow along with the YouTube video on the Investonomics YouTube channel. Until Tuesday... Jay

Welcome back to the Crux of Investing & Finance! This week's Topic Tuesday focuses on a man who is actively changing the metaverse. Mark Lurie started out in venture capital and has since revamped the NFT space and is working to make decentralized exchanges (DEXs) accessible to all crypto traders by offering a very low fee exchange. He is the CEO of Shipyard Software that serves to create many...

Welcome back to the Crux of Investing & Finance! This week, we are discussing one of the hottest topics in Finance today and that is the Non-Fungible Token or NFT market. Notorious for housing digital value in a way that physical assets cannot compete with, NFTs offer a way to create authenticity and rarity in a digital world. Here you'll learn all you need to know including where and how to p...

Welcome back to the Crux of Investing & Finance. This is our sixth ITT episode. Today we are discussing the outlook of crypto mining for 2022. 2021 was undoubtedly an incredible year for crypto but insane growth means there is a period of negative growth or stable prices right around the corner in the markets. 2022 will likely bring some of this more relaxed energy while welcoming miners to th...

Welcome back to the Crux of Investing & Finance! This week's discussion is about stablecoins and more specifically, a stablecoin called Tether. We cover why they are such a big hit in the crypto markets these days, some pros and cons, various types of collateral they can utilize, and finally how they operate and why they may function well as a medium of exchange. We hope you can learn somethin...