Wealth Formula Podcast

When you put aside money for retirement, who’s advice are you taking? Are you taking the advice of the wealth advisor who makes money every time you make a deposit? Why do you trust your wealth advisor? Is he or she wealthy? These are questions that are critical to ask yourself if you want to avoid dying broke. That may sound ludicrous to you. After all, you might be making $200,000 or $300,000 per year right now. How could you ever die broke? Well, if you ever did a deep dive into the formulas used to help guide you to your golden years, you would understand. The reality is, the formulas used by wealth advisors to guide retirement saving/investing through conventional wisdom are outdated and dangerous. We live in unparalleled times. The stock market has essentially been sideways for three years. Earnings from major companies are poor yet their stock valuation are at record highs. Why? Because interest rates have been essentially zero for eight years and institutional investors can borrow money for free. That

The words “real estate investing” conjure up many different images. For some, it might make you think of Vanilla Ice’s reality show on flipping homes. For others, The idea of real estate makes you think of real estate moguls such as Donald Trump. The reason for these very different images is because real estate is a very large industry with multiple different niches. Going through all of the different niches is a show in and of itself and we are not going to do that today. Instead, the focus of this week’s Wealth Formula Podcast is a discussion on real estate as a business versus real estate investing. Both can be lucrative, but they have very different intents and outcomes. Andrew Holmes, called by some, aka the “king of cash flow” in Chicago, has experience and active participation in both kinds of activities. Therefore, he is the perfect guy to discuss this distinction. This is a great show and a must listen for anyone involved in real estate or even contemplating it. I hope you enjoy it and make sure to s

Let’s talk, for a minute, about how a bank works. You deposit money in the bank. These days, they pay you less than 1 percent interest. Because they are a bank, they are able to lend out most of the money you deposited. This is called the fractional reserve system. It’s complicated and best addressed in detail on another episode. However, in a nutshell, this is how it works. The bank only needs to keep a tiny percentage of what you deposit and can lend out the rest. So, say you deposit $10. The bank lends out $9 and keeps your $1 in the bank. Of course you never told them to do that. You assume your money is in the bank and that you can access it anytime you want. And…in theory…you can. That is as long as everyone wants there money back at the same time. So, when the bank lends out your money to a borrower, they charge a much higher rate than what they are paying you and they make a lot of money. Did they pay you for putting your money at risk? Hardly. Wouldn’t it be nice if a bank told you what it was doing

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