#investing — Wealth & Means

Episodes tagged #investing on Wealth & Means.

• Buy the Dip… or Buy the Future? — 2026-02-27
  The 'buy the dip' strategy sounds disciplined. Historical crashes really do recover. But research shows most investors who try it end up worse off. A data-driven look at why waiting for dips destroys more wealth than it builds — and what to do instead.
• The Market Isn't a Puzzle You Solve — 2026-02-05
  For new investors in U.S. stocks, the most dangerous thing isn't a bear market — it's the belief that you can outsmart one. A deep look at why timing the market fails, what the research actually shows about real investor behavior, and what to do instead.
• Why Chasing Rumors Is the Fastest Way to Lose Money — 2026-01-30
  The infamous Wall Street cliché 'buy the rumor, sell the news' is a brilliant mental model for spotting over-hyped setups — but a lousy playbook for your portfolio. Here's the research, the history, and what actually works instead.
• Bonds: The Quiet Powerhouse Every New Investor Needs to Know — 2026-01-23
  A complete beginner's guide to bonds: what they are, how they work, the main types, why they belong in every portfolio, and the easiest ways to invest. The global bond market at $145 trillion is larger than the global equity market — yet most new investors ignore it entirely.
• Episode 13: When Everything Is Generated, Intention Becomes Luxury — 2026-01-23
  Episode 13 traces a subtle shift happening across markets, media, and culture: when generation becomes cheap, discernment becomes expensive. From consumers interrogating product composition to creators pushing back against AI slop to Granville T. Woods solving coordination before it had a name.
• Episode 12: Culture, Capital, and the Quiet Setup — 2026-01-16
  Episode 12 is about the signals that don't shout — but matter anyway. Not breaking news or viral outrage. Small, accumulating clues across culture, markets, and behavior that reveal where attention and capital are drifting as we head into 2026.
• Episode 11: Noise, Signal, and the Long Game — 2026-01-09
  Episode 11 follows one thread from culture through markets to history: what looks like noise often turns out to be signal. Minecraft as prestige television. Fan trailers outpacing studios. Cloud gaming drifting toward subscriptions. Podcasts winning on trust. And the Wright brothers, who beat everyone with a bicycle shop and a homemade wind tunnel.
• Episode 9: Scott Galloway vs. MrBeast — The Creator Economy Debate — 2025-12-16
  Episode 9 features 'The Greater Debate' — a theatrical showdown between Scott Galloway and MrBeast on the creator economy, plus what you didn't see in the news, the week's market calendar, a Knowledge Bomb on investing vehicles, and the inventor behind the tools creators use.
• Stocks, ETFs, or Mutual Funds? Welcome to Investing — 2025-12-15
  For a new investor with a 10+ year horizon, the first real question is: stocks, ETFs, or mutual funds? A plain-English breakdown of how each works, what they cost, how they're taxed, and how to actually combine them into a simple, durable portfolio.
• Investing $100K: Rental Property vs. REITs — 2025-12-10
  A $100,000 real estate decision broken down honestly: buy a rental property with $100k down on a ~$400k property, or put that same $100k into REITs. Side-by-side comparison of effort, tax, cash flow, returns, and control.
• Who Owns This Place? A Beginner's Guide to Business Ownership — 2025-11-27
  What you're actually buying when you click 'buy' on a stock — a beginner's guide to business ownership, from sole proprietorships to the Dutch East India Company's invention of the modern share.
• The Golden Rule of Investing: Follow the Cash Flow — 2024-05-01
  One rule cuts through all the noise of modern finance: if you can't clearly identify where an investment's cash flow comes from, don't touch it. Applied to derivatives, private markets, SPACs, and complex structures, it is the simplest and most powerful filter a new investor has.
• Diversification — 2024-02-15
  Seven dimensions of diversification for wealth preservation — from asset classes and individual securities to geographic and time diversification — grounded in Solomon's Ecclesiastes 11:2.
• Put Your Eggs in Many Baskets — 2024-01-20
  From Ecclesiastes to ETFs — how Solomon's ancient instruction to 'divide your portion to seven' maps onto modern portfolio construction across seven distinct dimensions.