How Losing $500K in ‘08 Led One Trader to a Different Kind of Portfolio, with Jared Dillian
#756: In September 2008, Jared Dillian watched about half a million dollars of Lehman Brothers stock go to zero in a single week. He wasn't...
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20 of 802 episodesAI, Debt, and a Social Security Shortfall. Should Your Money Plans Change? With Rob Berger
#755: Many retirees fear running out of money more than they fear dying. AI is reshaping the economy, the U.S. now spends over $1 trillion o...
Q&A: We Have $80K in Cash and Want a 1–2 Year Sabbatical. Is It Enough?
#754: Four months of savings in the bank, a goal of eight, and a career break she's excited to fund. Does everything else really have to wai...
Why 60,000 New York Apartments Sit Empty in a Housing Crisis, with Kenny Burgos
#753: New York City is short roughly half a million homes, yet at least 60,000 rent-regulated apartments sit empty. Under current rules, man...
Q&A: I’m Tired of Managing My Rental Property. Should I Sell It?
#752: A caller's rental is performing fine, but a late-paying tenant and a roof replacement have her ready to sell it before she moves to Ma...
Why Self-Worth Predicts Your Income More Than Your SAT Score Does, with Marisa Franco
#751: The belief that’s quietly sabotaging your progress might not even be true. Free worksheet to question it: https://affordanything.com/t...
Your "Diversified" Portfolio Might Secretly Be One Big Bet on AI, with Alec Litowitz
#750: Free worksheet: question the belief that might be keeping you stuck — before reality forces the update for you: http://affordanything....
How a Blind Man and His Guide Dog Survived Sept. 11 — and What His Mindset Can Teach Us, with Michael Hingson
#749: Michael Hingson was on the 78th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center when the first plane hit on Sept. 11. He felt the i...
Q&A: My Dream Job Won't Wait If I Take a Family Gap Year — Do I Quit Anyway?
#748: The real question behind quitting a job you love or paying off debt anyway? Your money mindset. Take our free quiz to find yours: http...
First Friday: Hope in Nepal; Trouble in the Bond Market
#747: We have good news on multiple fronts to share about the job market, the stock market, the commodities market, and volatile news around...
Q&A: What Nepal Reveals About Wealth and Safety
#746: We begin today’s episode with a discussion of the disastrous flash flooding in Nepal, a personal topic for Paula given her family ther...
The Four Kinds of Rich Nobody Counts -- with Sahil Bloom [GREATEST HITS]
#745: A friend once asked Sahil Bloom how often he saw his parents. About once a year, Sahil said. How old are they? Mid-60s. His friend did...
This Historian Says We're Living in the Best Era Ever, with Joseph Moore
#744: With about $200 and a crypto exchange, historian Joseph Moore turned himself into a legitimate billionaire — a stunt that says more ab...
Everyone Wants a Piece of You. Here's How to Stay Whole -- with Luke Burgis
#743: Everyone talks about a loneliness epidemic — but Luke Burgis argues the opposite problem is just as real: we now have so much easy, fr...
Q&A: I Reached Financial Independence Three Years Early … Now What?
#742: A listener hit her $1.4 million early-retirement goal three years ahead of schedule — and now she's stuck deciding whether paying off...
You Can't Buy Back Your 20’s — with Jack Raines
#740: Jack Raines turned $6,000 into $400,000 trading blank-check stocks during the 2020–2021 bubble — and he says it was some of the least...
Q&A: Should We Retire in Our 40s With $4 Million and an 80% Stock Portfolio?
#740: Paula and Joe rarely butt heads — but a caller's side hustle, which pulled in $5,500 in a single day, sparked their most heated disagr...
First Friday: We Lost 23,000 Jobs, Yet Somehow Unemployment is Down?!?!
#739: The U.S. just lost 23,000 jobs — and unemployment fell anyway. The numbers were strange enough that Paula broke a years-long, all-stoc...
Hackers Waited 3 Months for This Couple's $1.2 Million Deal, with Dr. Eric Cole [GREATEST HITS]
#738: Hackers broke into a real estate closing company's servers and waited three months for the right deal — then intercepted a wire and st...
She's Researched Money for 30 Years—and Never Seen It This Bad for Young People, with Beth Kobliner
#737: Beth Kobliner has covered personal finance for people in their 20s and 30s for over three decades — and she says this is the hardest s...