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| Lance Roberts sits down with Garrett Baldwin to dissect how the financial system became structurally distorted — from the Fed’s collateral-driven era after 2008 to the unchecked rise of passive investing and liquidity engineering. Other key topics include: The illusion of value through asset-price debasement The 50-year mortgage folly and real housing affordability CATH ETFs and the birth of speculative flows How ETFs and repo markets reshaped price discovery Garrett and Lance reveal how the system drifted from fundamentals — and what disciplined investors must understand to protect capital in an age of financial distortion. 📈 Subscribe for more insights from Real Investment Advice and The Real Investment Show. #TheSystemIsBroken #GarrettBaldwin #FinancialMarkets #MonetaryPolicy #ETFs |
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351 ETFs: A New Yet Old Way To Avoid Taxes
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7-22-25 ‘You Have to Buy a House’ is a Myth
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7-21-25 Big Questions for Big Tech
2025-07-21
Can the AI boom sustain current valuations, or is a reckoning coming? Lance Roberts examines how AI and Big Tech investing trends are shaping portfolios, whether rising interest rates will derail Tech stock market outlook, and the growing risks of regulation impact on Big Tech from Washington to Brussels. Markets are still flirting with all-time highs. Lance shares the latest Roberts Family Saga, and his Coldplay strategy. Is investor exuberance getting out of hand? Options expiring within 24-hours are at an all-time high: This is not hedging, this is pure betting. Lance discusses anticipated spending for AI, and identifies associated debt as productive (think, Hoover Dam) vs non-productive (entitlements), which is dis-inflationary. Buuy backs are a poor (non-productive) use of capital.
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