Building Wealth & Investing
The year that was and making rational investment decisions
Welcome to Finance and Fury, and Happy New year. I hope you are all having a great start to the year. As it is a new year, a lot of podcasts and even previous episodes that I have done have been looking forward for the coming year, on setting goals or where to invest...
Blackstone, liquidity and investment risks
Welcome to Finance and Fury. We will look at Investment liquidity and how this relates to risk to markets and investors – liquidity issues are starting to become an increasing risk factor for many investments as interest rates are on the rise With rising...
What is the next major risk to crypto markets?
Welcome to Finance and Fury. In this episode, we will be looking at what I believe is emerging to be the next major risk to crypto markets. I was doing some further research on the fallout of FTX and contagion risk – in the episode we covered FTX, I mentioned that...
Finance & Economics
Frogs and taxes
Welcome to Finance and Fury. Question: Would you be comfortable paying an individual carbon tax? Most people may say yes, depending on how much. In this episode we look at the history of taxes and look what I believe is a new type of tax that we will face, being a...
Using economic theory to maximise your own life and personal wealth
Welcome to Finance and Fury. In today’s episode, we will be looking at a way to think differently about maximising your own life and personal wealth – We are going to do this by breaking down the economic factors of productions and rather than applying these to an...
The economics of Hollywood and investing in entertainment
Welcome to Finance and Fury. Todays episode will be a little different than normal – as we will be looking at the Economics of Hollywood and the potential of investing in entertainment Companies like Disney, Paramount, Netflix, even in Australia you have companies...
Property
Moral hazard and the Evergrande collapse
Welcome to Finance and Fury. In this episode we will be looking at the Property market in China and focus on the Evergrande developments – in particular if there is actually a timebomb starting to surface – and look at the potential contagion risks to the rest of the...
What are the best ways to save for a home deposit?
Welcome to Finance and Fury – For this week’s episode we are answering a question from listener David – surrounding some options to save for a home deposit “The conventional wisdom is to save for, say, a home deposit in a bank account with as high as possible interest...
What affects demand and prices of property in Australia?
Welcome to Finance and Fury. In this week’s episode, we will be looking at the demand for property in Australia. If you haven’t listened to last week’s episode – it may be worthwhile – discussed supply of property in Australia – this week we will be focusing on demand...
Shares
With interest rates on the rise, is borrowing to invest still a viable strategy?
Welcome to Finance and Fury. With interest rates on the rise, is borrowing to invest still worth it, also is it best to reduce debt or use it to build wealth? Borrowing to invest is a strategy known as Leveraging – Purchase assets with others money, but you pay a...
What goes up, must….crash?
Welcome to Finance and Fury. Are we in for another black swan event in the coming months? I think that it is fairly obvious to everyone that we are currently in the midst of a bear market. In one major way, a bear market was expected at some point – but the timing of...
Selecting investments and building a portfolio
Welcome to Finance and Fury. Last week, we looked at historical returns and their usefulness when selecting investments – this week, we will be looking at alternative options of selecting investments and building a portfolio In regards to last week’s episode, if you...
Superannuation & Retirement
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...
Are superannuation funds in danger?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Furious Friday edition. Today – want to run through what is happening within the industry superannuation environment – not looking good With the market crash – cracks in the financial system are starting to appear – with almost no...
Politics, Psychology and your money
Are we going through an economic or societal collapse or just another turning in a cycle?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Furious Friday edition. Last week we went through the Fed Theory and disconnect theories. Today I want to look at an overlapping theory to this on what is happening in society as well. I just finished an interesting book called the...
An economic and fiscal update and examining the 2020 budget
Welcome to Finance and Fury Budget came out last week – this episode – go through the fiscal overview and the policy measures in it Fiscal overview – provided updates on the government budget position and economic updates Government – added $289 billion in fiscal...
Beyond monetary policy, what policy changes can be made to help improve economic conditions?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Furious Friday edition. Last Furious Friday episode – started on a thought experiment – looking at the reversal of the trends in Monetary policy - who knows if these would work and make for a better economy – these were: Separate...
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,...
Tax
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...
Furious Friday: What is the future of the Australian Economy?
Hi Guys, and Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Furious Friday edition. Today we are discussing the future of our economy. What is the future of the Australian Economy? Welcome Today’s episode is on the future of the Australian economy. In today’s episode we will cover...
Debt and Cash Flow
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...
The 4 reasons when not to buy property
Welcome to Finance and Fury Today’s episode is with Jayden and we will be talking about why property might not work for you, or when you shouldn’t buy property. We have talked about using property to build long term wealth using leverage. However, there are some...
Say What Wednesday: Australia’s National Debt Crisis – a ticking time bomb
Welcome to Finance & Fury, the ‘Say What Wednesday’ edition. Today’s question comes from Brad, “Any chance you could do a podcast on Australian foreign debt? Is it possible to pay it off? Will paying it off have a negative effect on our economy? Are most or all...
Welfare & Social Security
Arguments for and against a housing crash
Welcome to Finance and Fury. Arguments for and against a housing crash – in this episode, we will look at both sides of this and see what could happen Is the property market going to see a decline – beyond what has already occurred? Or is it on the path to recovery....
The collapse of Credit Suisse, bail ins and moral hazard
Welcome to Finance and Fury. This episode is about the banking system – the collapse of credit Suisse and looking at how bail ins, bail outs work and the moral hazard this creates. In in an effort to answer the question: Is having a back stop from letting banks...
Is the bank ‘crisis’ over?
Welcome to Finance and Fury. In last weeks episode, I stated that I was going to cover the collapse of SVB, but by now this is old news and there have been further developments – so we will still give a quick recap on SVB but the main focus will be on further...
Technology & New Ideas
Introducing the great reset and what is on the agenda of the World Economic Forum.
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Furious Friday edition. I hope you are all going well. This episode is all about “the great reset”. It sounds like some weird, out there agenda, but it is carried out by some of the most influential organisations on earth. I want to...
Do robots pose a danger to the employment sector and what does future of employment look like?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Say What Wednesday edition. This week’s question is from Phuong. “Hi Louis - With strikes happening at Sydney’s port recently and worker asking for pay rises, do you think that Robot will eventually replace human workers? And what are...
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...
The Intro Eps
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