Finance & Fury Podcast
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Building Wealth & Investing
Who is responsible for your happiness and financial wellbeing?
Welcome to Finance and Fury Looking around in Australia - increasing disparity in wealth, and social fragmentation That social fragmentation means Australians are become "more self-interested, more materialistic, more competitive". Our largest challenge as a society...
How is traditional asset diversification is getting harder in a world with increasingly correlated asset classes?
Welcome to Finance and Fury Traditional asset class allocation Diversification getting harder Diversification in a world where most asset classes are becoming correlated Diversification: what it is and isn’t Diversification across asset classes is one of the most...
Are we in a property bubble and if so, why?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, Are we in a property bubble? There is no question that the Australian property market has become significantly overpriced – but is it a bubble and due for a significant downturn? – For this – only talking about capital cities – most of...
Finance & Economics
Why would Central bankers want to crash economies, create political division and start wars?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Furious Friday Edition. Today – continue talking about wars – the banker's wars – this time on us and financial markets– Gone through how bankers fund wars, central banks carry out monetary policy that leads to Hot wars Start a...
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...
Currency wars, trade wars and how they can act as a pre-curser to hot wars.
Economic Warfare through currency, trade, and sanctions – tools that can be used to crush a nation without firing a shot – but have historically been a pre-curser to war – also – the war on all of us financially – conducted by Central banks/Fed James Rickards –...
Property
Can shares be leveraged as part of a property purchase?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Say What Wednesday Edition I would like to start by saying a big thank you for the knowledge you have passed onto myself and the community. My question lies around equity, if you have a considerable amount of money in shares, say 200k,...
Build to rent: Why are Banks and Super Funds becoming large Corporate Landlords?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, Past few Monday eps on Share concentration – and the holdings and influence that super funds have Today – talk about the legislation put into place and the plans going on now where you might end up renting an apartment from your super...
Is rent-to-own a good idea if you are trying to get into the property market?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Say What Wednesday edition Hi Louis, My wife and I a looking for ways to buy a home, given some credit history and income stability challenges. I was hoping to get your thoughts on Rent-to-own arrangements. I really enjoy your...
Shares
How passive investments are creating market bubbles and positive feedback loops
Welcome to Finance and Fury Passive Investing is the Flavour of the day – Central banks entered the markets to provide a feedback loop Central banks Trying to create the wealth effect - Bernanke’s easy money policy was intended to boost economic growth by boosting...
Are tech shares like Afterpay and Facebook are a good long-term investment option?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Say What Wednesday edition. Today's question comes from Mike - "Hey Louis, Wondering if you think buying Tech shares are worthwhile" We have the FANG and the WAAAX – US – FANG - Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google Aus – WAAAX -...
Why the Australian Share index is so reliant on just 5 companies and the risks that this brings
Welcome to Finance and Fury Today we are discussing the concentration risk Last week – how the modern banking system acts like dominos failing– Due to their liabilities and obligations to one another this week – look at the other side of the balance sheet – Which is...
Superannuation & Retirement
Say What Wednesdays: Financial Advice – The process, the costs, and if seeking advice is for you
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Say What Wednesday Episode, where every we answer questions from you guys! This week’s question comes from Nelson, “Hi mate, Love the podcast. Admittedly don't agree with some of your more conservative political opinions but that aside...
Say What Wednesdays: High Roller; Start Investing with $1,000
Say What Wednesdays High Roller; Start Investing with $1,000 Welcome to Finance & Fury, the Say What Wednesday edition, where we answer your personal finance questions each week. Today’s question comes from Tara; “Hi Finance & Fury, love the show! I was...
Say What Wednesday: First Home Super Saver Scheme
Say What Wednesdays First Home Super Saver Scheme: Using superannuation to buy your first home Today’s Say What Wednesday question comes from Emma, and relates to saving for a house deposit: “Hi, thanks so much for the podcasts - I have learnt so much. My question is...
Politics, Psychology and your money
How does the adaptability of humanity open the door to Global Economic control?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Furious Friday edition Today we start discussing the SDGs in relation to The economy – few SDGs this relates to Go through each in detail in separate episodes – but this ep is an overview into how deep this goes. UN goals as...
Beggar thy neighbour – How devaluation of currency can make or break economic growth domestically, or for trading partners
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Say What Wednesday edition Today's question comes from Jessica. Jessica – Hey Louis, You mentioned something about a Yuan devaluation in the Tech Share episode. I’m just wondering what this is and why a country would do this? Thanks...
Has the first domino in the next banking crisis fallen?
Welcome to Finance and Fury Snuck this episode in ahead of time – only reading about news yesterday – need to do some further digging – but is it Time to sell shares in anticipation of a crash? Today – run through some news that you might not have seen – financial...
Global Reserve Assets – Move over US Dollars, SDRs are coming to town
Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Furious Friday edition. In money system – need a reserve – gold, currency – gives a floor value which gives confidence Doesn’t provide much stability – Most central bankers use the same terms when talking about current international...
Will enforcing recycling legislation help to save the environment?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the ‘Say What Wednesday’ Edition. We recently had an awesome email from Zoe about a potential market solution following the ‘Solution for pollution’ episode last week; “We sort our cans from our mixed recycling in our Sydney CBD office...
What is Luck? And how can we be manipulated through information, destroying the luck that we have
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Furious Friday edition Last week: Being grateful for what we have, where Australia started and where we have come Today: Luck truly running out How it can be manipulated What is luck? Success or failure apparently brought by chance...
Tax
The Election Battle between those who pay tax, and those who don’t
Welcome to Finance and Fury Today will be a quick update for the upcoming election and policies in response to the budget plans released last week. This election is becoming a battle for votes among salary earners. In the past we have talked about class warfare...
Say What Wednesday: Labor’s policy changes – Franking credits, negative gearing, super, and CGT
Welcome to Finance & Fury, the ‘Say What Wednesday’ edition where every week we answer questions from you guys. Today’s question is from John; “Thanks for the podcast and the content you provide. I thought a useful podcast topic could be the...
Furious Fridays: Furious Fridays: The Myth of trickle-down economics
Hey all, and Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Furious Friday edition. Have you ever heard of trickle-down economics? As you know, Friday episodes are here to clear up any misconceptions about economics and politics, and this is the biggest one when it comes to...
Debt and Cash Flow
When to refinance and negotiate value
Welcome to Finance and Fury. Today we have Jayden with us, and we will be talking about negotiating with banks and refinancing. Refinancing: Pros and Cons and how to negotiate Bank Valuations Interest rates might go up or might go down.so this is all about asking, is...
9 reasons your loan may have been rejected
Episode 38 9 reasons your loan may have been rejected Welcome to Finance & Fury. Today we’re talking about 9 reasons you may have your home loan application declined. We have Jayden Vecchio this episode running through the 9 reasons. As a result of the recent...
Say What Wednesday: Paying your home loan off with debt
Say What Wednesday Paying your home loan off with debt How can you pay off a mortgage with debt? Velocity banking and Offset accounts This question comes from Tom a podcast listener. He asks “Just wondering if you have ever used Velocity banking at all to pay down...
Welfare & Social Security
Why is talking to your kids and family members about money so important?
Why? – nobody else will help to confer information and thus Teach them about value of money – Kids don’t understand value of not just money as a medium of exchange – but that their time has valued attached to it – I don’t think some adults know that either At the very...
How is traditional asset diversification is getting harder in a world with increasingly correlated asset classes?
Welcome to Finance and Fury Traditional asset class allocation Diversification getting harder Diversification in a world where most asset classes are becoming correlated Diversification: what it is and isn’t Diversification across asset classes is one of the most...
Are we in a property bubble and if so, why?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, Are we in a property bubble? There is no question that the Australian property market has become significantly overpriced – but is it a bubble and due for a significant downturn? – For this – only talking about capital cities – most of...
Technology & New Ideas
What creates a lack of resilience in financial markets and how a loss of resilience makes them prone for a collapse?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, For the past few Monday episodes been talking about complexity theory and markets – check out Last two eps – went through phase transition, feedback loops and how markets become fragile and some signs this is happening Most recent...
How do you know that the share markets are likely to be in for a collapse?
Welcome to Finance and Fury Last week - The lead up of markets in relation to complexity theory – phase transitions and feedback loops in markets https://financeandfury.com.au/how-to-analyse-share-markets-by-treating-them-as-a-complex-system/ Today – look at the...
How to analyse share markets by treating them as a complex system
Welcome to Finance and Fury Series on Share markets as complex systems – a different way of thinking about them – This episode, discuss some basics of shares and introduce complexity theory – Nonlinear, Emergence, Spontaneous order, Adaption, Feedback loops Shares -...
The Intro Eps
(Intro Series) From ‘Puzzle’ to ‘Map’
Intro - Episode 3 From 'Puzzle' to 'Map' Welcome to the 3rd part of the intro series for Finance and Fury. Today let’s start with a bit of time travel. Picture 1500’s, London. All the guys have hipster like facial hair, accessories, the big beards, the little curly...
(Intro Series) Translating Finance
Intro - Episode 2 Translating Finance Welcome to Part 2 of this intro series to Finance & Fury. Today I wanted to start this episode off with getting you to imaging you’ve hit the lotto jackpot! Say for instance, you’ve got a guaranteed million dollars per annum...
(Intro Series) What is financial independence?
Intro - Episode 1 What is Financial Independence? Welcome to the first part of this intro series to “Finance and Fury”. This series is brought to you by THINKING, as thinking is where this all started! Thinking about the easiest solutions to reaching financial...