CW 332: Deregulated Hedge Funds with Les Leopold Author of ‘How to Make a Million Dollars An Hour’
Creating Wealth Real Estate Investing with Jason Hartman
Release Date: 08/11/2013
2482: AI Labor Displacement and the K-Shaped Housing Affordability: High-End Housing and the New Economic Divide with Adam Taggart
Creating Wealth Real Estate Investing with Jason Hartman
In this interview, Jason Hartman and Adam Taggart, founder of Thoughtful Money, discuss the current state of the economy, markets, and future technology. Taggart explains that while he is cautiously realistic rather than purely bearish, long-term challenges like soaring national debt, inflationary pressures, and demographic shifts require investors to maintain an eye to defense. They explore the parallels between the dot-com boom and the modern artificial intelligence revolution, noting that while AI represents genuine technological progress, rapid labor displacement could trigger a societal...
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2481: Speculative Flipping Failures vs. The Warren Buffett Philosophy
Creating Wealth Real Estate Investing with Jason Hartman
Jason and Michael talk about the current real estate market and presents significant difficulties for short-term speculators, such as flippers and wholesalers, who rely on rapid exits and face severe challenges. In contrast, long-term value investors and dedicated operators who practice patience and maintain appropriate cash reserves are well-positioned to succeed. Elevated mortgage rates and lagging housing supply are creating pent-up rent inflation pressure, which will eventually drive up rental rates across the sector. Investors must prioritize sound...
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2480 FBF: Investor Mindset & DuckDuckGo Founder, Super Thinking Mental Models & Traction, How Any Startup Explosive Growth by Gabriel Weinberg
Creating Wealth Real Estate Investing with Jason Hartman
This Flashback Friday is from episode 1240 published last July 18, 2019. Jason Hartman and Investment Counselor Adam start off today's show discussing the mindset of investors that needs to change. The whole idea of a "discount" isn't a reliable methodology for investors, things should be viewed in a win-win lens. Then Jason talks with Gabriel Weinberg, founder of DuckDuckGo and author of Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Customer Growth and Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models, about how you can use some of the mental models to help you achieve the returns you desire. They also...
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2479: Property Tracker: Understanding the Math of Income Property
Creating Wealth Real Estate Investing with Jason Hartman
Jason is demonstrating his software tool called Property Tracker. He emphasizes that real estate is an eight-dimensional asset class offering multiple wealth-building benefits beyond basic cash flow and appreciation. Key financial concepts highlighted include cost segregation for accelerated tax savings and inflation-induced debt destruction, which reduces the real value of fixed-rate mortgages over time. Viewers are encouraged to utilize free online resources to customize deal metrics, run various market scenarios, and evaluate long-term investment returns...
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2478 FBF: Jim Rickards on The Death of Money, Aftermath, Currency Wars & The New Great Depression
Creating Wealth Real Estate Investing with Jason Hartman
This Flashback Friday is from episode 1636 published last January 18, 2021. Censorship and political speech, Jason Hartman asks you where the line is drawn. Remember, to maintain control, Jason Hartman's Commandment Number Three. Jason Hartman talks with Jim Richards, author of The New Great Depression. Jim shares his discoveries about the lockdown, the stock market's influence, and asset bubbles vs. asset inflation. Jim Rickard's Book: Contact our Investment Counselors today! Get your FREE account today at Join our FREE Masterclass every second Wednesday of the month ...
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2477: Builder Profit Margins Hit 26-Year Lows and Solving the American Housing Crisis
Creating Wealth Real Estate Investing with Jason Hartman
Property investors should prioritize seizing growth opportunities and actively avoid the opportunity costs of letting their capital remain idle. Current market conditions feature high mortgage rates and challenging housing affordability, yet human nature dictates that fear of loss remains a powerful motivator for market participation. Due to these economic hurdles, tenant retention has surged significantly as renters remain in place longer rather than attempting to purchase homes. Consequently, real estate investors can capitalize on compressed builder margins and various market incentives by...
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2476: The $50,000 Housing Trap: Why Government "Free Money" Will Ruin Homebuyers
Creating Wealth Real Estate Investing with Jason Hartman
Jason Hartman and guest Michael Zuber critique the proposed Home Ownership Promise Act, a government initiative designed to provide first-time homebuyers with up to $50,000 in grants via a five-to-one savings match. They argue that while the program is framed as a solution for housing affordability, it actually risks inflating home prices by stimulating demand without addressing the underlying lack of housing supply. Hartman contends that such subsidies primarily benefit existing asset owners and wealthy investors who can exploit loopholes, ultimately leaving the intended beneficiaries in a...
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2475 FBF: Key Takeaways & Best Practices from the ‘Meet the Masters of Real Estate Investing’ Seminar
Creating Wealth Real Estate Investing with Jason Hartman
This Flashback Friday is from episode 296 published last January 27, 2013. Join Jason Hartman as he discusses some good takeaways from attendees, speakers and panel discussions at Meet The Masters of Income Property. Here's a sampling: • Best Practices in Property Management • Jason Hartman: The Next 10 Commandments • Market Profile: Atlanta, Georgia • The Power of Analysis • Market & Property Evaluation • Entity Structures for Asset Protection • Cost Effective Property Insurance Nationwide • Market Profile: St. Robert, Missouri • Mortgage Lender Panel -...
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2474: The Massive Housing Shortage, Investor Advantage, Property Tracker Tutorial and Q & A with Jason
Creating Wealth Real Estate Investing with Jason Hartman
Jason talks about the current state of the American housing market, specifically focusing on a prolonged supply shortage that began after the Great Recession. He highlights how elevated mortgage rates have created a "lock-in effect," discouraging current homeowners from selling and further tightening the inventory of available homes. This environment has led to increased rental demand, as potential buyers are forced to remain in the rental pool due to high costs and limited options. For real estate investors, these conditions are presented as a strategic advantage because limited supply and...
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2473 FBF: Mass Censorship, Centenarian Population Growth, Listener Comments and Responses
Creating Wealth Real Estate Investing with Jason Hartman
This Flashback Friday is from eisode 1646 published last February 10, 2021. Jason Hartman thanks all of the listeners for their comments and compliments. In this "compared to what?" themed episode, Jason responds to several clients' comments from socialism to interest rates. If you like what you're hearing, join the Empowered Investor Inner Circle for many benefits, including a more intimate and candid version of some more complex issues in the real estate industry. The number of centenarians has grown dramatically over the last two decades, which is good news for you as a human and an...
info_outlineJason talks with Les Leopold on his new book: "How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour: Why Financial Elites get away with siphoning off America's Wealth." In the interview, Les details just how hedge funds are making unthinkable amounts of money.
Les Leopold co-founded and currently directs two nonprofit organizations, the Labor Institute of New York and the Public Health Institute. He designs research and educational programs on occupational safety and health, the environment and economics. He also serves as a strategic consultant to the Blue-Green Alliance which brings together trade unions and environmental organizations. Leopold designs research and educational programs on occupational safety and health, the environment, and economics and helped form an alliance between the United Steel Workers Union and the Sierra Club. He is a proud graduate of Oberlin College and Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (MPA 1975).
Leopold also authored several other books about "The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi," (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2006.) If you'd like to read more by Les, you can take a look at his articles published by AlterNet at http://www.alternet.org/authors/les-leopold-0