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Hard Assets and Smart Debt with Ben Reinberg 02/06/2026

Hard Assets and Smart Debt with Ben Reinberg Commercial real estate veteran Ben Reinberg shares how he uses hard assets and smart debt to strengthen his investing portfolio. He shares his journey from starting in his early 20s to building a national hard-asset portfolio across industrial, office, retail, multifamily, and medical real estate. We talk the importance of the “ability to hold” assets through cycles by avoiding over-leverage, maintaining reserves, and structuring smart debt. Ben outlines where commercial real estate sits in the current cycle, highlighting looming debt maturities, distressed opportunities, and the potential for attractive buying conditions over the next few years. We discuss... Ben Reinberg explains how he built wealth starting in his early 20s by focusing on hard assets, particularly commercial real estate, as a long-term strategy for cash flow and financial control. He emphasizes the importance of becoming a true expert in a specific asset class rather than spreading focus too broadly. He shares lessons from his first industrial deal, including managing tenant loss, repositioning assets, and creating value through active ownership. A central theme was the “ability to hold,” meaning structuring investments to survive any market cycle without being forced to sell. He stressed using smart debt, avoiding over-leverage (generally keeping loan-to-value around 65%), and maintaining ample reserves. The discussion highlighted why medical office real estate is recession- and pandemic-resilient, with high tenant renewal rates and stable cash flow. Reinberg explained how inflation, tariffs, and rising costs affect tenants and property operations across different real estate sectors. The episode explored how real estate acts as an inflation hedge through rent growth, escalators, and long-term asset appreciation. They discussed the current commercial real estate downturn, driven by higher rates, falling values, and large amounts of debt coming due. Reinberg argued that the next few years may present some of the best commercial real estate buying opportunities in decades. He warned investors to be cautious, underwrite deals conservatively, and focus on tenant quality and market fundamentals. We have an optimistic outlook for 2026–2028, expecting lower rates, increased liquidity, more transactions, and improving economic stability. Today's Panelists: Kirk Chisholm | Barbara Friedberg | Douglas Heagren | Follow on Facebook: Follow LinkedIn: Follow on Twitter/X: For more information, visit the show notes at /episode/index/show/moneytreeinvesting/id/39708760

Silver CRASHED... What Happened & What's Next 02/04/2026

Growing Global Debt and the Future of the Global Economy with Jean-Baptiste Wautier 01/30/2026

How To Profit In The Run It Hot Economy 01/28/2026

College Without Crushing Debt with Shellee Howard 01/23/2026

The Best Ways to Invest in the Run It Hot Economy 01/21/2026

Secret Franchising Profits For Investors 01/16/2026

2026 Predictions... This is What Will Outperform in 2026 01/14/2026

Investing in Bitcoin in 2026 01/09/2026

2025 Wrap Up... Year End Surprises 01/07/2026

2025 Wrap Up... Year End Surprises There are a lot of year end surprises in store with the 2025 wrap up. The year has come to an end and we are here to discuss everything from year-end reflections and personal anecdotes to a broad market outlook. We focused on the recent surge and volatility in precious metals, especially silver, explaining how futures-market leverage and exchange rule changes (like margin requirement hikes) are used to cool speculative excess, why parabolic price moves are unhealthy, and why investors should be cautious in the near term even if long-term fundamentals remain bullish. We also talked government fraud, rising debt costs, aging demographics, deglobalization, and higher-for-longer rates, arguing that bad asset allocation now carries real risk and diversification with assets like precious metals still matter. We discuss... We challenge simplistic economic cause-and-effect narratives, arguing that inflation, tariffs, and monetary policy outcomes are highly contextual and often misrepresented by official government data. Past periods of QE and low inflation were cited to illustrate how money printing can offset deflation rather than automatically cause inflation, reinforcing skepticism toward consensus forecasts. Large-scale government fraud is pervasive, rarely punished, and structurally embedded, with the prediction that no high-level figures will face consequences in ongoing public scandals. Precious metals, particularly silver, were a major focus due to extreme recent price volatility, including sharp multi-day gains and losses while most investors were disengaged over the holidays. The mechanics of futures markets were explained in detail, emphasizing how leverage works, why margin requirements matter, and how exchanges can legally change rules to stabilize markets. Recent increases in margin requirements for silver, gold, platinum, and palladium were highlighted as a deliberate attempt by exchanges to flush out speculative leverage and cool “animal spirits.” Governments and exchanges can escalate interventions dramatically if needed, including forcing cash settlement or changing delivery rules, which would materially alter market dynamics. Banks’ growing discomfort with holding U.S. Treasuries and their shift toward gold are a quiet but significant signal about long-term confidence in fiat systems. The contrast between gold (central-bank owned) and silver (primarily investor and industrial owned) explains differing market behaviors and intervention risks. The hosts argued that the era of “cheap mistakes” is over, meaning poor allocation decisions now result in permanent capital loss, not just missed opportunity. AI enthusiasm should be thought of skeptically as large language models are becoming commoditized quickly, lack durable moats, and resemble past tech bubbles. Be cautious, diversify, be skeptical of narratives, have respect for market structure, and prepare for a year where volatility exposes complacency. Today's Panelists: Kirk Chisholm | Douglas Heagren | Follow on Facebook: Follow LinkedIn: Follow on Twitter/X: For more information, visit the show notes at /episode/index/show/moneytreeinvesting/id/39620935

Why AI Hype and Clickbait Are Failing Serious Business Owners with Elliot Holland 12/31/2025

Why AI Hype and Clickbait Are Failing Serious Business Owners with Elliot Holland Elliot Holland joins us to explore the realities of building and sustaining a high-quality, trust-driven professional business in an era dominated by AI hype, declining marketing efficiency, and algorithmic noise. We discuss skepticism around AI’s real-world impact especially in high-stakes financial decisions. We also talk marketing and content strategy, why sensationalism and clickbait may win algorithms but will always repel discerning clients. We also unpack our frustrations with modern marketing platforms like Google, Facebook, and HubSpot as they grow increasingly expensive and benefit from opacity while delivering lower-quality data. The most important thing is authentic conversations, patience, and thoughtful content aimed at a small, qualified audience that can outperform viral reach. We discuss... Sustaining a professional services business increasingly depends on trust, judgment, and human relationships rather than scale, speed, or technological hype. There's septicism that AI will meaningfully disrupt high-stakes, people-to-people work, arguing it is largely rebranded machine learning with limited real-world adoption so far. Discerning clients value nuance, experience, and improvisational thinking that cannot be captured in static data sets or automated workflows. AI is a productivity aid for summaries and surface-level tasks, but not a substitute for deep expertise, critical thinking, or accountability. YouTube and podcasts are trust-building tools rather than growth hacks, with success measured by client conversion quality instead of view counts. Algorithms reward “nonsense about nonsense,” making platforms misaligned with professionals selling high-trust, high-ticket services. Marketing metrics such as views, impressions, and engagement were described as misleading compared to tracking clicks, conversations, and actual revenue outcomes. Google, Facebook, and HubSpot are operating as “confuse-opolies,” benefiting from complexity, opacity, and user lock-in rather than clear results. The rising difficulty of marketing has forced business owners to either deeply understand marketing themselves or risk wasting capital on underqualified vendors. Elliott explained restructuring his marketing around specialized vendors, strict performance accountability, and personal ownership of customer persona definition. Long-form, unscripted conversations often deliver more value than polished, optimized content designed for algorithms. Future marketing success will favor authenticity, clarity, and long-term relationship-building over funnels, gimmicks, and viral reach. Follow on Facebook: Follow LinkedIn: Follow on Twitter/X: For more information, visit the show notes at /episode/index/show/moneytreeinvesting/id/39153580

Year End Tax Loss Selling Secrets You Must Know 12/31/2025

Collaborative Leadership in an AI-Driven World 12/26/2025

Collaborative Leadership in an AI-Driven World Sallyann Della Casa, CEO Dubai-based “community as a service” GLEAC, joins us to share her personal journey and how collaborative leadership will thrive in our AI-drive future. She explains how access to networks, proximity to experience, and “quiet capital” are often more powerful than credentials alone in shaping opportunity, leadership, and career outcomes. We explore inequality driven by access rather than ability, leadership and gender mental models, and examines why modern society struggles to produce widely respected leaders. We also education and AI, arguing that traditional schooling is outdated, overly focused on memorization, and ill-suited for a world where AI can outperform humans on hard skills, while human skill can thrive in areas AI can't. AI will reshape leadership, investing, and management and future leaders will succeed by combining learning agility, deep expertise, strong networks, and the ability to co-lead alongside AI. We discuss... Sally Ann Della Casa shares her personal story to illustrate how proximity, networks, and early access often determine life outcomes more than raw talent. The concept of “quiet capital” is a mix of social trust, reputation, networks, and deep domain knowledge that drives real-world success. The discussion examined inequality as a function of access and networks rather than intelligence or effort. Leadership was debated through the lens of mental models, including gender expectations, risk tolerance, and the loneliness of decision-making. Modern society struggles to identify and develop respected leaders across business, politics, and culture. Education systems are outdated, overly focused on memorization, and misaligned with how people actually learn and collaborate. AI was framed as a forcing function that will finally push education to prioritize human skills like judgment, creativity, curiosity, and critical thinking. The risks and benefits of AI are discussed, emphasizing that AI reflects human biases and represents the “gray average,” not top-tier insight. The importance of context, storytelling, and lived experience are highlighted as something AI cannot replace. Leadership in the future is more agile, less hierarchical, and increasingly collaborative with AI tools and agents. Today's Panelists: Kirk Chisholm | Barbara Friedberg | Phil Weiss | Follow on Facebook: Follow LinkedIn: Follow on Twitter/X: For more information, visit the show notes at /episode/index/show/moneytreeinvesting/id/39478725

CAUTION… Santa Clause Rally Ahead 12/24/2025

Why Stocks and Gold Are Soaring in a World Full of Risk with George Economou 12/19/2025

The Federal Reserved Tipped It’s Hand For a Bull Market In… 12/17/2025

Reinventing Taxes to Make Them Work for You with John Thompson 12/12/2025

This December Secret Could Be Your Best Trade of the Year 12/10/2025

Options Strategies for Modern Investors with Lawrence Kriesmer 12/05/2025

Breaking News… HUGE Opportunities in Latin America, Silver and Biotechnology 12/03/2025

The Bull Market In Cash Is Coming... 11/28/2025

More Shocking Signs... The Economy Is Breaking 11/26/2025

More Shocking Signs... The Economy Is Breaking The economy is breaking, and today we discuss the signs. We explore the challenges of navigating today’s markets, highlighting the volatility and skepticism around AI-driven companies, overinflated stock valuations, and earnings season dynamics where “beating expectations” often masks underlying realities. It's important to be cautious investors over high P/E ratios, unsustainable growth, and market timing. You need to focus on risk management over speculation. Critical thinking is also imperative while evaluating data and it's important to question assumptions and focus on market behavior rather than blindly trusting reported numbers. We discuss... Volatility in November and the flat performance in October, with a mixed outlook for the remaining six weeks of the year. Historical trends in presidential cycles, noting that the second year is statistically the worst for stock market performance, while years one, three, and four tend to perform better. The impact of earnings season on markets and how companies often beat expectations by managing guidance strategically, which can mislead retail investors. The market’s reaction to AI-related companies, the skepticism around reported growth, revenue, and inter-company financing “shenanigans.” Historical parallels to the late 1990s internet bubble, where vendor financing inflated revenues before companies ultimately collapsed. The difficulty of individual stock investing, noting that growth rates slow as companies mature and valuations often contract over time. The risk of focusing on long-term predictions without timing, being “right too early” can result in significant opportunity costs and losses. Michael Burry’s recent hedge fund moves, his short positions on AI-related stocks like Nvidia and the implications for investors skeptical of inflated earnings. Timing is critical in investing, caution with high-growth sectors and risk management rather than speculative bets are needs. Investors should not blindly trust government or corporate data, but instead focus on market behavior and price trends to assess reality. There's importance in distinguishing between what is factually true and what the market believes. Apply critical thinking, question assumptions, and focus on present market realities rather than speculative long-term projections. Today's Panelists: Kirk Chisholm | Phil Weiss | Follow on Facebook: Follow LinkedIn: Follow on Twitter/X: For more information, visit the show notes at /episode/index/show/moneytreeinvesting/id/39165035

How AI will Transform the Future of Trading with John Bartleman 11/21/2025

The Stock Market Is Broken… K Shaped Economy 11/19/2025

Secrets To Spending Less On The Cost Of College 11/14/2025

Secrets To Spending Less On The Cost Of College Mark Salisbury shares the secrets to spending less on the cost of college! As the founder of TuitionFit, explains how the college pricing and financial aid system is designed to favor schools over families. He describes how emotional marketing, opaque pricing, and complex financial aid forms create confusion and limit families’ leverage. he outlines how students and parents can regain control by defining their price range first, using resources like TuitionFit and net price calculators, and strategically managing assets, timing, and financial disclosures. He also covers how income, savings, and family structure affect aid, and more! We discuss... Mark Salisbury explains how the college pricing system is intentionally vague, designed to benefit schools rather than families. This conversation exposes how the financial aid process operates like a hidden marketplace where families unknowingly pay vastly different prices for the same education. Mark explains the difference between a school’s sticker price, discount rate, and net price, emphasizing that the last is what truly matters. He details how the FAFSA and CSS Profile collect information that can be used by colleges to assess a family’s financial “willingness to pay.” Timing and disclosure of assets can dramatically impact how much financial aid a family receives. Families with business ownership structures may have advantages in how assets and income are reported. Fnancial aid formulas often penalize savings while rewarding debt. Salisbury argues that families should start with their budget first, then find schools that fit within that price range—rather than applying and hoping for aid. Tools like TuitionFit help families compare real financial aid offers and discover the true market price for college. He advises against oversharing financial information before admission decisions are made to preserve negotiation leverage. Negotiating college costs is compared to buying a car—where informed consumers who know their target price get better deals. Transparency and data sharing among families are key to fixing the broken college pricing system. Mark calls for systemic reform to make higher education pricing fairer, more transparent, and tied to real market value. Today's Panelists: Kirk Chisholm | Douglas Heagren | Diana Perkins | Jack Wang | Follow on Facebook: Follow LinkedIn: Follow on Twitter/X: For more information, visit the show notes at /episode/index/show/moneytreeinvesting/id/38959345

Should The S&P 500 Go Higher? 11/12/2025

Using AI to Transform Long-Term Care with Lily Vittayarukskul 11/07/2025

The Stock Market Bubble Is Getting Bigger... This Is When It Will Pop 11/05/2025

The Stock Market Bubble Is Getting Bigger... This Is When It Will Pop The stock market bubble is going to pop! And we're going to tell you when. In today's episode we discuss that price is the ultimate indicator of market truth. Charts, narratives, and data often distort reality, while price alone reflects what investors truly believe. Don't overcomplicate investing with speculative indicators, fear-based “chart crimes,” and emotional herd behavior, especially in areas like AI stocks that echo the dot-com bubble. Fundamentals and narratives often mislead, while disciplined attention to price direction and risk management yields better results. We discuss... Price is the purest and most reliable truth in markets, capturing the collective judgment of all participants and filtering out misleading narratives. Investors often get trapped by "chart crimes," forcing technical patterns or trends that confirm what they want to see rather than what the market is actually showing. Investors often believe that deeper analysis means better insight, but in truth, simplicity and clarity around price direction outperform complex models. There are strong parallels between the current AI investment boom and the late-1990s dot-com bubble. Euphoric narratives around transformative technologies tend to overinflate valuations before reality catches up. AI enthusiasm is driving herd behavior, where investors fear missing out on perceived “once-in-a-lifetime” gains, leading to speculative excess and distorted valuations. Most investors misjudge risk, confusing volatility with opportunity, and failing to respect the message that price declines are often early warnings of deeper structural problems. There are under-appreciated risks building in private markets, especially private credit and private equity, which have grown rapidly outside the scope of traditional regulation. Private credit lacks transparency, liquidity, and oversight, creating potential systemic vulnerabilities if credit conditions tighten or defaults rise. In contrast, regulated banks, though unpopular, are more transparent and stress-tested, making them safer in relative terms despite their public scrutiny. Investors chasing yield in private markets are ignoring the lessons of past crises, mistaking the illusion of stability for real safety. Liquidity is an often-overlooked advantage, allowing investors to act decisively when market conditions change instead of being trapped in illiquid positions. Stay grounded in simplicity, price truth, and discipline, avoid the noise of narratives, the allure of complexity, and the comfort of consensus thinking. Today's Panelists: Kirk Chisholm | Follow on Facebook: Follow LinkedIn: Follow on Twitter/X: For more information, visit the show notes at /episode/index/show/moneytreeinvesting/id/38906240

Investing Into Space is No Longer Science Fiction 10/31/2025

Investing Into Space is No Longer Science Fiction Have you thought about investing into space? Mark Boggett, CEO of Seraphim, shares the investment opportunities in the rapidly expanding space industry. He explains how innovations led by SpaceX dramatically lowered launch costs and increased access to space, catalyzing growth in satellite constellations and data-driven applications for defense, climate, and communications. He emphasizes that near-term investment potential lies in defense and climate-related uses of satellite data, rather than speculative ventures like space travel or asteroid mining. He also highlights the growing importance of sustainability, debris management, and more. We discuss... Mark Boggett is a career technology investor who founded Seraphim Space, the world’s first space-focused investment fund. Seraphim Space operates a global accelerator, a private venture fund, and a publicly listed growth fund on the London Stock Exchange. Boggett shifted focus to space investing after recognizing how technologies like AI, telecommunications, and 3D printing were transforming the sector. SpaceX revolutionized space access by reducing launch costs from $86,000 to $1,000 per kilogram and dramatically increasing launch frequency. Smaller, cheaper satellites now enable massive constellations that provide real-time Earth observation and global connectivity. Investment opportunities in space fall into three categories: upstream (launch and satellites), downstream (data and applications), and in-space (future lunar and interplanetary activities). The most investable areas today are defense and climate-related satellite data applications rather than speculative space travel or mining. The falling cost of launch is paving the way for large-scale space infrastructure, including future data centers powered by solar energy. Space debris is an emerging challenge, driving new industries focused on monitoring, avoiding, and removing defunct satellites. Regulatory changes now require satellite operators to deorbit defunct satellites within five years, accelerating growth in orbital cleanup services. Defense is a major driver of demand for satellite technology in intelligence, communications, navigation, and asset protection. The “in-space” category includes lunar landers, space stations, and eventual habitation or mining ventures, though these remain long-term prospects. NASA’s new funding model relies on private companies like Axiom Space and Voyager to build commercial space stations. Boggett concludes that while long-term prospects like lunar mining are exciting, the current trillion-dollar opportunity lies in satellites, data, and communication serving Earth-based customers. Today's Panelists: Kirk Chisholm | Phil Weiss | Douglas Heagren | Follow on Facebook: Follow LinkedIn: Follow on Twitter/X: For more information, visit the show notes at /episode/index/show/moneytreeinvesting/id/38776220

Record Levels Of Money Market Funds Does Not Mean What You Think 10/29/2025

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