The Money Machine Podcast: Recent Episodes
White Swan
Investing in real estate can be a powerful way of build a money machine, provided that you do it smartly.
REIT or Real Estate Investment Trusts can be useful way to get into the market at low cost. It also removes the hassle of dealing with tenants and the effort of looking for properties yourselves.
However, REITs also have many disadvantages. From tax disadvantages, to lack of control, to the big disadvantage of losing out on using leverage to build your money machine.
In this podcast, we talk about both the pros and cons and find out one of the smartest ways to build leverage for yourself and get into real estate investing.
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What are the biggest mistakes people make when considering real estate?
In this episode, we talk about some of the false beliefs, mindsets, and strategies that average people make when getting into real estate as an investment.
Listen to this podcast to learn how to instead turn your investment into a money machine.
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The proposed Biden Tax plan eliminates many of the incentives of investing in real estate, stocks, and other asset classes. In this episode, we talk about the ethical need to minimize the tax bills you pay (without evading taxes you legally owe!). We also get into some of the pitfalls for those who are looking to build financial independence in their lives that comes from the new tax laws.
You will learn:
- The secret asset the wealthy have used throughout history to protect their wealth.
- The strategies of the ultra-rich that they use to get out of paying taxes.
- Why lawmakers favor businesses and landlords with lower taxes.
- The consequences of the proposed Biden tax plan.
- How the average person can prepare themselves and protect their wealth for themselves and their families.
Learn more:
- White Swan Financial: www.whiteswan.io
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Companies like Tesla, the entire Crypto space, the S&P500 more broadly and the rest of the market is downright jubilant. However, there is a real disconnect between price and value. Revenues are down globally. So what is causing such exuberant prices? In this episode we will learn about:
- Why we are in a market bubble
- What assets and investments are affected by this bubble
- What are the drivers that reveal that we are in a bubble
- What we can do about it
- Why the S&P 500 passive index investing is not part of the answer.
- What smart investors like Michael Bury from Scion Capital (of the Big Short fame) are doing and talking about
- Why we need to move into assets and out of overpriced investments
- The consequences of a 0% interest rate economy (NOT good)!
In next week's episodes, we will pick up where we left off and we will talk about how the Biden tax plans are setting up a perfect storm for an impending popping of a bubble that will have devastating consequences for regular people.
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In this episode, we are joined by Pontus Lagerberg of White Swan. We discuss one of the most interesting financial assets that only the ultra rich have access to, and what ordinary people looking to build safety and stability can do.
We discuss:
- What are structured investments?
- Why do high net worth individuals opt for these notes from top banks like Goldman Sachs?
- Where can you get structured returns?
- As a high net worth individual, or someone who understands options and other complex financial instruments, or through a non-traditional use of life insurance.
- What are the risks associated with them?
- What sorts of rewards/returns can you expect from structured investments?
This was a fascinating talk!
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NFTs (non-fungible tokens) and Art Investing are taking the world by storm. There is a lot of euphoria in the marketplace. In this episode, we talk about some of the key drivers behind all this hype. We cover:
- What are NFTs?
- What does it mean when something is fungible?
- The difference between investing in NFTs vs. supporting an artist for their work.
- What are the underlying risks behind investing in NFTs?
- What are alternative ways to benefit from NFTs?
- Why you must understand behavioral finance if you want to get into alternative asset investing...
- Alternative ways of investing in the art market.
Resources:
- White Swan: A safe haven against the chaos of the crypto and NFT markets
- Masterworks: An alternative way of investing in art with securitized fungible tokens
- NFT Canon: A list of articles that goes into NFTs in more detail. Take a note that most of these are overly euphoric and optimistic in nature.
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In this episode, we continue our conversation with Pontus Lagerberg from White Swan to understand the key differences between assets and investments.
We cover:
- What sets apart an investment from an asset?
- What is the right mix to have of each type in building your money machine?
- How to keep low risk while having dependable returns?
- What does your home count as--an asset, an investment, or a liability
- Why banks have huge holdings of insurance (beyond even real estate)
- How insurance companies can churn out 4%+ returns for more than a century consistently
Enjoy the episode and if you have any questions or suggestions, send it over on info@whiteswan.io.
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In this second episode, we continue talking about the implications of not being taught personal finance while we're growing up.
We also cover these topics:
- Why index investing can be highly risky.
- What happens if you do not understand timing in the markets.
- Why most financial products are purposefully presented as more complicated than they are.
- What you should know about risk with your assets.
- The coming bubble in the crypto market.
- What are the actual rates of inflation vs. the reported rates of inflation and what that means.
- The consequences of money printing to your investment portfolio.
And more!
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Welcome to the first episode of the Money Machine Podcast.
In the inaugural episode, we are joined by Pontus Lagerberg, author of The Art of Building a Money Machine. We spend this episode talking about some of the risks that people take on in their journey as entrepreneurs and makers.
Pontus shares his favorite ways of managing financial risk with smart portfolio management and introducing financial products like whole life insurance to reduce risk and finance tax free growth.
In upcoming episodes, we hope to talk about more specific talks like the fallacies of index investing, and examining other contrarian viewpoints about smartly building a money machine with him and other guests.
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