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How Money Works Defies What We Know About Money

Warren speaks about all the free money we've all been getting access to because of a health crisis.

"If the world turns into a world where you [governments] can issue more and more money and have negative interest rates over time — I’d have to see it to believe it, but I’ve seen a little bit of it.

"Can you keep doing what we're doing now? The world has been able to do it for now a dozen years or so [since 2008]. We may be facing a period where we're testing that hypothesis that you can continue it with a lot more force than we've tested it before."

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Lending an ear to Buffet

Lending an ear to Buffet

Warren Buffet is considered the most successful investor in history, making it worth listening to him.

Buffet said these two lines:

“The [US] debt isn’t going to be repaid; it’s going to be refunded.”

“You better ow...

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Be cautious in the short-term

Free money is given away through economic stimulus, but the large amounts of money printed mean the velocity of money are down (how many times one dollar passes through many people's hands.) When large amounts of money are created but not spent, when that money eventually is spent, it can lead to...

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Negative interest rates

Negative interest rates can be bad for you. It means you have to pay to store your money. It also means the bank may face severe financial trouble that leads them to go out of business.

The banks have insurance to deal with such an event, but the deposit insurance will be u...

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The poor are being robbed by the rich

Many retail investors are buying stocks using Apps like Robinhood. While billionaires like Warren exit stocks, normal people believe they are smarter than the pros or trading bots. 

Investment firms use high-frequency trading to beat the average investor. Then the same firms are front-runni...

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Inflation Is Taking Hold

Inflation is when prices go up and the value of your money decreases. Inflation is really a hidden tax on your money.

Warren has put his firm’s money in gold and treasury bills (lending money to the government). Over time, treasury bills are terrible investments, but Warren is comfortable d...

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The stock market bubble

Despite the world we live in of record unemployment, health crisis, and protests, stock markets are beating record highs. It could be a disaster waiting to happen.

Another Iconic billionaire investor, George Soros, called the stock market a bubble. "investors are in a b...

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