Finance & Fury Podcast
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Building Wealth & Investing
What are the investment opportunities that come from the ageing population trend?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Say What Wednesday edition. This week’s question is from Shaf – “I would like to get your opinion/analysis on Australia’s ageing population, and investment opportunities that are linked to this segment of the market. For example,...
How to start taking investment actions today for a better you tomorrow.
Welcome to Finance and Fury. What is important when it comes to investing? Or which is the more important – what you know or what you do? Sometimes the more you know – the harder it is to invest – information overload – can be a curse of knowledge – if you knew...
Rethinking the value of investment strategies for the future.
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Say What Wednesday edition. Last part of a 3 part series from Ryan’s questions – looking at alternative future investment strategies Episode two weeks ago – went through debt jubilees – Last week went through policies and how these...
Finance & Economics
How accurate are economic statistics and do they really matter in our daily lives?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Furious Friday edition. Today we’re look at if economic data really means anything. I was thinking – and do any of these numbers really matters to you? Or even to me? Think about this – talk about a lot of the metrics – GDP, Inflation,...
In a world with higher levels of inflation, what investments and strategies will do well and which ones won’t
Welcome to Finance and Fury. What investments will do well and those that wont in a world with higher levels of inflation Financial investments – Been talking about MMT and inflation – but what hasn’t been mention – a lot of these intentions of providing business with...
Crony capitalism and Modern Monetary Theory in action!
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Furious Friday edition. Today we’re looking at Modern Monetary Theory in action. The first stage, how this is going to be practically done, involves the merging of the central banks and Government Treasury. We’ll also look at the...
Property
Should I fix my home loan interest rate?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Say What Wednesday edition. This week’s question is from Charl regarding his home loan. “My bank is currently offering a 2.29% interest rate on a 3-year fixed loan. I am currently on a 2.99% Variable rate with them and am considering...
What are the price declines forecasted for the property market?
Welcome to Finance and Fury. Today will be a flow on episode from “What will happen to property prices if we continue along our economic decline?”, which was posted about a month ago. Due to the updated numbers and banks coming out with their forecasts for price...
What will happen to property prices if we continue along our economic decline?
Welcome to Finance and Fury. Today – will be looking at the potential outcomes for property market from here. How the effects of the Government responses to Corona may affect the property market – there are many things in play – prices in the property market complex...
Shares
What are the investment opportunities that come from the ageing population trend?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Say What Wednesday edition. This week’s question is from Shaf – “I would like to get your opinion/analysis on Australia’s ageing population, and investment opportunities that are linked to this segment of the market. For example,...
The future of the share market: How central bank intervention will be a dominant factor going forward.
Welcome to Finance and Fury. Investing in the equity or debt markets in the world with greater levels of Central bank interventions – The rebounds of the market – seems to be responding to the Fed and the US Treasury Last week – the ASX recorded its biggest one-day...
How fear can control the share market and how to invest without fear
Welcome to Finance and Fury. Today we’ll talk about what rules the market, fear, and why it is important to have some fears but also overcome them Fears rule the market – and the more fear makes the market more volatile Occurs on both side – fears of losing money –...
Superannuation & Retirement
Is the ETF GEAR a good opportunity for long term growth and dividends?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Say What Wednesday Edition. This weeks question comes from Gab. “I had a question regarding a leveraged ETF from Betashares called GEAR. It is designed to offer around 2:1 exposure to the ASX 200, with 0.8% management cost. Looking at...
What types of superannuation accounts allow you to control your investments?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Say What Wednesday edition. This week, the question comes from Andrew: "Last episode you mentioned super and a product that lets you invest in third party platforms. Would like to hear more about that." What is super? Most people think...
The personal financial pitfalls from stimulus measures
Welcome to Finance and Fury – Today we'll be looking at some of the pitfalls of the recent financial measures to combat the economic fallout that is going on Two major ones when it comes to the personal side of this- Money out of super – Easing the rules of...
Politics, Psychology and your money
Is it time to rethink monetary policy? A question from Ross
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Furious Friday edition. Today is more a Say What Wednesday episode, I need to catch up on some of your questions and this one fits in nicely. This is a question I got from Ross about rethinking monetary policy. “Am currently reading...
Crony capitalism and Modern Monetary Theory in action!
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Furious Friday edition. Today we’re looking at Modern Monetary Theory in action. The first stage, how this is going to be practically done, involves the merging of the central banks and Government Treasury. We’ll also look at the...
What does it look like when a government takes over the control of a currency?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Furious Friday. Last episode, we went through the combination of monetary and fiscal policy, larger scale of QE and the quick introduction to modern monetary theory. Today I was going to go through the recovery of the economy today,...
What does the future of the economy look like?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Furious Friday edition. In today’s episode we look at what the future of the economy looks like? First – I want to say a massive thank you to everyone who has given great feedback and your support – many of you have reached out...
Never let a good crisis go to waste – The new evolutionary phase of the economic system.
Welcome to Finance and Fury – Last year through September, October and November – was running through the future of the economy – was looking at this through a few episodes – interesting to see a lot of what was discussed playing out now In those episodes – went...
The Curious case of Pandemic Bonds
Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Furious Friday edition You probably are exhausted about the coronavirus - What you probably haven’t heard about is A little known type of bond created in 2017 by the World Bank. The World Bank – Headquartered in Washington DC – back in...
Tax
What happens when a family trust comes to the end of its life? What happens with the assets and are there CGT or stamp duty liabilities?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Say What Wednesday edition. Today's question comes from Gab. Hi Louis, thank you (as always) for the great content. I've got another question that I've struggled with recently, and I'm hoping you can shed some light on the topic. I've...
Pay more in taxes, electricity prices and costs of goods, or the climate will change!
Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Furious Friday edition Today – cover Resource control over an economy/society – Energy, food, water – Many SDGs – 7, 13, 15, 16 – Mainly focus on 7 and 13 – this is the core of most SDGs – justifications for them anyway Goal 13:...
Death and taxes, or taxed to death?
Welcome to Finance and Fury A plan for structural reforms to help increase Australians’ ability for upward mobility. The coalition will likely have enough seats to squeeze through a lot of reforms. Today: Income axes going up aren’t much of a concern What about the...
Debt and Cash Flow
Will property prices keep declining due to higher mortgage arrears?
Hey guys and welcome to Finance and Fury! Today we’re joined again by Jayden to talk about whether property prices will keep declining due to higher mortgage arrears. The RBA’s cookie cutter approach to rates will continue to try and help reduce chances of mortgage...
Say What Wednesday: Considering refinancing your mortgage with a smaller online lender?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the ‘Say What Wednesday’ edition. Today I’m here with Jayden! Today’s question comes from Gavin, “Is there anything to be considered when looking at refinancing mortgages with smaller lenders that run their business online like...
How to use your home for Investments
Welcome to Finance and Fury Today we have Jayden here, and we will be talking about using your home for as an investment and as a forced savings account. You can start turning the bad debt into good debt. Through paying down the loan quicker, and then redrawing on the...
Welfare & Social Security
Rethinking the value of investment strategies for the future.
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Say What Wednesday edition. Last part of a 3 part series from Ryan’s questions – looking at alternative future investment strategies Episode two weeks ago – went through debt jubilees – Last week went through policies and how these...
Coffee, dominos and the basics when understanding how the real economy functions
Welcome to Finance and Fury. Today - Understanding domino effects within an economy – This episode is aimed to help think more about orders of effect and consequences from actions – Talked about this in last FF ep – this episode is a bit of a lighter episode – been...
Is it time to rethink monetary policy? A question from Ross
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Furious Friday edition. Today is more a Say What Wednesday episode, I need to catch up on some of your questions and this one fits in nicely. This is a question I got from Ross about rethinking monetary policy. “Am currently reading...
Technology & New Ideas
What Central Bankers may do in the next financial collapse, if there is ever going to be one!
Welcome to Finance and Fury Today – going to cover the Central banking playbook in the next crisis – If there is ever going to be one! Today – was doing some reading so will have a look at some comments from key central banking figures over the past few years – and...
Financial Bubbles and the lessons they have to teach
Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Furious Friday Edition This week – see what lessons can be learned from - Last week - Story of Financial alchemy in its early days with the SSC bubble Been many bubbles since then – The Markets have a Cycle to them History of the last...
Lessons from the past – The South Sea Bubble and the early days of financial alchemy!
Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Furious Friday Edition Today - Lesson from the past – Story of Financial alchemy in its early days Specifically – turning debt into equity – i.e. financial alchemy Story Starts - In 1700s the English Crown had amassed massive debts –...
The Intro Eps
(Intro Series) The wrap up party
Intro - Episode 6 The wrap up party Hey guys! Welcome to the wrap up party for this little intro series Well done if you’ve made it to this point listening. I know a lot of it could have come across pretty confusing …and don’t worry I was quite confused myself by this...
(Intro Series) What does your retirement look like, and why?
Intro - Episode 5 What does your retirement look like, and why? What do you normally think about before you go anywhere? Anyone who has ever left the house before has probably had to think about something before taking a step out the front door. Anyone who hasn’t,...
(Intro Series) Trusting yourself and learning the basics
Intro - Episode 4 Trusting yourself and learning the basics To start off, do you think that having a map to financial independence would be the ideal solution? Compared to a puzzle it actually would be far better than trying to piece together something, if you could...