The Cash Flow Academy Show

Discover how the tax code rewards certain types of investing. SHOW NOTES: 7:23: How Can The IRS Become A Wealth-Building Partner? 12:05: How Is The Tax Code A Guidebook To Successful Investing? 14:28: How Do You Progress From Being Rich To Being Wealthy? 17:44: What Motivates The Government To Offer Tax Incentives? 25:45: How Is It Patriotic To Pay Fewer Taxes?

Discover how inflation impacts stock trading, and how to build a trading plan to navigate these inflationary times. SHOW NOTES: 4:56: What Do Traders Need To Know About Current Inflation? 10:14: What Do Traders Need To Know About Current Money Supplies? 15:59: What Sectors Gain Strength During Inflation? 29:39: How Did Inflation Expose Crypto Currencies? 42:53: How Does Inflation Create Trading Op...

Discover how to change your mind – and the minds of others – in this discussion with David McRaney. SHOW NOTES: 4:53: How Unaware Are Humans? 11:04: How Can Humans Improve By Raising Awareness Of Being Wrong? 17:27: What Is The Best Way To Change Your Own Mind? 26:35: How Does The Fear Of Social Death Impact The Brain? 33:11: What Did The GameStop Event Teach Us About The Minds Of Investors? 50:22...

Discover how to achieve and maintain high performance in business and at home. Alan Stein Jr. joins Andy to discuss his work with high-performance athletes and business leaders. SHOW NOTES: 6:59: How Does High Performance Begin With Respect For The Basics? 11:06: How Is Mastery Of The Basics Simple But Not Easy? 19:23: What Causes Burnout? 23:50: How Are Burnout & Stagnation Different? 29:59: How...

Discover how America's sophisticated economic system lends itself to so many cycles of boom-and-bust. SHOW NOTES: 2:53: What Does The Savings & Loan Failure Teach Us About Today's Economic Stress? 7:38: What Causes America's Economic Failures? 11:44: How Do Financial Regulators Fail? 19:08: How Is Financial Illiteracy The Biggest Risk? 24:47: How Is Confidence The Key To Any Financial System? 32:5...

Food prices are skyrocketing. Food shortages are more frequent. Global food crises are predicted. Andy speaks with a food economist who offers insight into the next expected economic crisis. SHOW NOTES: 9:01: What Is The Risk Of A Global Food Shortage? 11:07: How Would Localizing Food Production Impact Inflation? 14:44: How Can Food Inflation Lead To Social Unrest? 18:50: How Fragile Are Food Supp...

Discover how economics are understood as a series of tradeoffs. Our economic policies are too often convoluted with ingredients that stray from common sense. Matthew Hennessey joins Andy to discuss how you can cut through "magical thinking" and use economics to make better choices. SHOW NOTES: 5:28: Why Are So Many People Intimidated By Economics? 7:33: How Have Economics Become "Over-Credentializ...

Discover how the U.S. will fund the future. Richard Duncan joins Andy to discuss money, credit and the future of the markets. SHOW NOTES: 17:46: How Has The Fed Changed Over The Last 100 Years? 21:53: How Did The Fed Become The World's Most Powerful Economic Institution? 25:49: How Did The Money Revolution Occur? 34:18: How Did Globalization Enable The Fed To Print Massive Amounts Of Money? 38:26:...

Discover how runaway inflation is impacting investing, wealth and the psychology of Americans. Economist Jay Prag joins Andy to discuss the likelihood of reversing inflation with a recession. SHOW NOTES: 6:06: How Is The Fed Fueling Inflation? 11:39: Why Has Economy Not Entered Hyperinflation? 20:54: How Does The Ukraine War Impact Inflation? 26:05: How Does The Fed Behave Like An Addict? 35:05: H...

SUMMARY: Discover how America and China are waging a financial war that impacts every citizen around the globe.   SHOW NOTES: 5:42: How Does Bretton Woods Frame The Current Financial Cold War? 11:17: Why Is The Dollar Still The Reserve Currency? 14:48: Is The Digital Yuan Likely To Overtake The Dollar As Reserve Currency? 16:33: Why Are The Saudis Considering Payment For Oil In Yuan? 24:02: What I...

SUMMARY: Discover how to start a business, or transition from an employee to a business owner.    SHOW NOTES: 3:34: How Does A Person Get Started In Entrepreneurship? 6:24: How Does Entrepreneurship Expose Your Weaknesses? 11:03: Where Does A Person Educate Themselves On Entrepreneurship? 13:48: How Is Mission Vital To Entrepreneurial Success? 15:06: How Is Entrepreneurship A Lifestyle? 16:38: Why...

SUMMARY: Gas prices are soaring. Food prices are spiking. Discover how commodities markets are contributing to economic chaos around the globe.   SHOW NOTES: 6:04: How Are Traders Detached From Fundamentals? 10:52: How Will Expensive Oil Impact Other Commodities? 18:07: What Will Trigger Hyperinflation? 20:21: How Does Debt Disappear? 27:57: How Will The Ukraine War Contribute To Massive Food Shor...

SUMMARY: Discover what it takes to successfully trade as uncertainty in the economy rises. Alex Gurevich joins Andy to discuss his trading strategy during the pandemic.   SHOW NOTES: 5:10: How Has The Pandemic Changed Trading? 8:09: How Was The Market Foreshadowing The Drop In March 2020? 15:03: What Is The Difference Between Traders And Investors? 19:35: What Is The Struggle Of Insurance? 22:19:...

SUMMARY: Discover what the GameStop/Reddit/Robinhood Revolution exposed about investing. Spencer Jakab joins Andy with analysis of this historic chapter in investing that sent shockwaves through the markets and provided many unintended consequences.   SHOW NOTES: 5:17: How Do Online Trading Platforms Influence Trading? 10:46: Have Markets Ever Experienced A GameStop/Robinhood-type Event? 15:28: Ho...

SUMMARY: Discover how personal and public debt has reached an inflection point. Richard Vague joins Andy to discuss realistic ways to reduce student loans, home mortgages, and small business debt.   SHOW NOTES: 2:42: How Is Personal Debt The Real Crisis? 4:48: What Is The Paradox Of Debt? 7:21: How Is Debt Different Depending On Wealth? 10:43: How Have Debt Policies Become Exhausted? 12:05: How Do...

SUMMARY: Discover how free capitalist markets really are. Nicholas Wapshott joins Andy to discuss the ongoing debate about government influence of money creation, debt and banking.   SHOW NOTES: 7:39: Are Free Markets Really Free? 9:10: What Would A Government-Free Economy Look Like? 11:50: How Does The U.S. Government Guarantee Banks Don't Fail? 13:05: How Did Paul Volker Crush Inflation? 16:57:...

SUMMARY: Discover how money is quickly changing under Modern Monetary Theory, low interest rates and income inequality. Zvi Schreiber joins Andy to discuss how money is going out of style, and what skills you'll need to achieve prosperity.   SHOW NOTES: 4:23: What Is The Future Of Fiat Money? 8:59: How Is MMT Impacting Money? 12:35: How Do Low Interest Rates Accelerate Inequality? 16:31: How Does...

SUMMARY: Discover how the invention of index funds changed forever the way stocks are bought and sold.   SHOW NOTES: 8:56: How Do Index Funds Impact Active Investment? 15:25: How Do Index Funds Solve The Problem Of Scalability? 18:57: How Do Investors Determine The Best Index Funds? 23:17: How Do Fees Impact Index Funds? 27:31: What Is The Future Of Bitcoin ETFs? 30:57: How Does Market Cap Add Ris...

Summary: Just like The Seven Deadly Sins, there are Seven Economic Sins that can impede success in business. James Otteson joins Andy to discuss economic sins and how personal decision-making can lead to a prosperous life.   SHOW NOTES: 5:35: What Is The Invisible Hand? 11:52: How Is Technology Making People More Risk Averse? 19:29: What Are The Unseen Consequences Of Deadly Economic Sins? 28:20:...

SUMMARY: Discover why inflation occurs and how you can prepare to live with it. Andy and a team of his best educators take a deep dive into The Fed and monetary policy, and explain in practical terms how you can navigate inflation.     SHOW NOTES: 2:35: Why Should You Care About Inflation? 4:26: How Is Current Monetary Policy Unprecedented? 5:32: Why Are There Negative Interest Rates? 14:09: How D...

SUMMARY: Discover how the financial system encourages fraud and discourages oversight. Jared Bibler joins Andy to discuss his work investigating financial systems dating back to the Great Recession of 2008.   SHOW NOTES: 4:36: What Made Iceland So Corrupt Leading Into The Great Recession? 14:36: How Do Governments Encourage Financial Corruption? 17:43: How Has Financial Oversight Changed Since 200...

SUMMARY: Schools have become a lightning rod for our national divisiveness. Discover how technology and the failure of adults are hollowing out America's youth. Jeremy Adams joins Andy to discuss his research and solutions to this crisis. SHOW NOTES: 1:36: How Are Young Citizens Hallowed Out? 4:04: What Does It Mean To Be Hollowed Out? 8:23: How Do You Find The Middle Ground Between Neglect And Ab...

SUMMARY: Residential real estate prices are skyrocketing. Discover if the market is overheated, and how to make money in any market with proper financial education.   SHOW NOTES: 8:51: Is Residential Real Estate Overheated? 12:49: How Do Investors Profit In Up And Down Markets? 17:25: What Role Does Financial Education Play In Successful Investing? 21:17: What Can We Learn From The Evergrande Cris...

SUMMARY: Discover why massive government spending does not lead to inflation. Richard Vague, Secretary of Banking & Securities of Pennsylvania, joins Andy to discuss his research into the origins of inflation.   SHOW NOTES: 6:48: Does MMT Work? 8:48: How Does MMT Not Cause Inflation? 14:02: Why Should We View The U.S. Economy A Wartime Economy? 20:10: How Is Personal Credit More Important Than Gov...

SUMMARY: The financial system as we know it is coming to an end. Decentralized Finance will upend banking, credit, loans and commercial transactions. Economist Campbell Harvey joins Andy to discuss DeFi.   SHOW NOTES: 3:36: How Does The Yield Curve Predict Recessions? 13:38: Why Do Policymakers Want To Convince You That Inflation Is Transitory? 20:06: Why Is MMT Baloney? 22:56: How Does Inflation...