Adam Van Wie: Fee-Only Planning Done Right

IN THIS EPISODE, THE ANNUITY MAN AND ADAM VAN WIE DISCUSS:
- Expectations versus reality
- The future of work
- Millionaire next door
- Inflation is customizable
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
- Right now, there’s a bit of a disconnect between the market and people’s expectations. This happens more often than you think, as people tend not to think outside their current situation. The market is looking ahead, and it's telling us that things are looking better on the horizon.
- The COVID response changed how people work and think about work, and I think you see it reflected in the younger people's attitudes. On the horizon, we could see the power shifting back towards the employers.
- The media depicts people with high net worth and clumps them together as the “evil rich.” In reality, most wealthy people earned that wealth through working hard, saving, scrimping, and being wise about their money.
- Inflation is customizable, meaning it affects everyone differently. Inflation always hits the low end of society the most. If you’re categorically one of the “evil rich,” you can afford not to worry about inflation.
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- 0:00 Intro
- 1:45 Stock Market Update
- 3:40 Boomer Boomerang Effect
- 5:10 Crypto
- 7:00 Government control
- 9:00 Work culture
- 11:30 Commercial real estate
- 13:35 Housing
- 15:20 Supply Chain
- 17:35 China
- 19:10 Russia
- 21:45 Election
- 24:00 Media
- 26:35 Evil Rich
- 28:15 Millionaire Next Door
- 31:05 ESG Funds
- 34:45 Getting Paid Off
- 36:05 Bonds
- 37:35 Mortgages
- 38:55 Inflation
- 41:07 Credit Card Debt
- 46:44 Top 3 Innovation Sectors
- 47:14 The Killer App
- 48:05 The OEM Moment
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Adam Van we of Van we Financial Adam
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welcome to fun with annuities
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thanks Dan I really appreciate it and
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thank you for having me back absolutely
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um Adam is based in North Florida I do
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have a home in North Florida as you know
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I do also live a little bit in Las Vegas
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which our main office is now located
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um so North Florida is if you haven't
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been there it's it's not South Florida
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let's put it like that that's the reason
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we all live in North Florida it's it's a
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very nice place Adam let's Jump Right In
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um let's talk about the stock market uh
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tell me what's going on in the markets
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at the time of this taping and let's
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talk about just 2023 as a broad base and
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looking into 2024 what are you seeing
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both good and bad right now yeah great
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topic I it's been such an unusual year
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after a very unusual year last year so
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uh the the I guess that if you had to
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sum up this year it'd be it's been great
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uh surprisingly great uh the the
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nasdaq's up almost 30 percent the s p is
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is up uh I don't know 15 or so and the
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the overall feeling in the market is
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like what recession
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um but you turned on any news Channel
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all you'll hear about is the the
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impending doom the recession is coming
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yeah I don't know if the recession's
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coming or not but the stock market is
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acting like we are headed into a uh a a
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really good time and uh but if you look
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at the economy it certainly doesn't feel
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that way so I think there's a bit of a
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disconnect right now between the market
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and what people's expectations are but
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that happens more often than you would
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think you last year everything felt
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probably a lot better than it does now
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and the market did nothing but go down
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so the the the the the market always
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looks ahead people can't always think
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outside of the current different
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situation that they're in and that's
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that's pretty normal to feel that way
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but the Market's looking ahead and
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telling us at this point that things are
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looking better on the horizon which
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thank goodness after last year is all I
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can say well it's been interesting
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because typically it's contrarian seesaw
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effect when the FED raises rates Etc and
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it seems like the stock market has just
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ignored that totally uh what what
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chairman I call him boogpal if you're an
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Orioles fan you know what that is what
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boot pal is doing and the Dutch boy
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haircut yelling what they're doing I
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don't I mean it's been great for people
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that want higher interest rates but from
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the stock market standpoint it has been
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interesting to see is do you think
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that's pent-up demand and liquidity from
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the coveted years
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I I do think there's some of that a lot
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of what we're seeing right now all ties
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back to the covid really the response to
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the covid pandemic uh We've we're in
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such an unprecedented time and I I
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normally hate when people say that but
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this truly is we've never done what we
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did during the covet pandemic yeah shut
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down the economy we've never never
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injected that much liquidity and and new
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money into the economy at one time so uh
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so a lot of this is just a I call it the
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Boomer the coveted Boomerang effect it's
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we're seeing all these unusual economic
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situations because of actions that took
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place a few years ago and yes I think
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that all of what you're seeing today is
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part of that response to the to the
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covid uh the covid response
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let's just hope that they don't feel
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they the government they don't feel they
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can do it again I think there would be
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so much blowback on this country from
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what we've now know about the truth
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um it's it would be interesting yet when
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I travel across the country I'll go to
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San Francisco and half the people
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walking down the street outside are
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wearing masks I'm going I don't know
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what's going on here maybe they're not
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reading the same thing I'm reading but
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apparently not but it's but it's
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interesting
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um
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so from the standpoint of you know
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there's been a lot of things that even
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the experts have looked at and said well
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this should happen if this happens uh
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Bitcoin and and crypto in general has
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been one that's a head scratcher just
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because I really think that the support
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of that sector is very very thin and
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held very very uh and within a few hands
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in my opinion what's your take on crypto
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because a lot of people still ask me
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about that and they still everybody
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wants the the next Tesla or the next
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apple and they want to get rich quick
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what do you tell your clients about
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crypto right here all 7 000 of them ish
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yeah crypto uh I tend to agree with you
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it's a very very thinly held asset I do
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think that there are a handful of people
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that probably control the bulk of it
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it's uh I don't look at it as a viable
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investment for my clients today I do
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think it has a future I I think that
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there are a lot of things about crypto I
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really like but I don't put money into
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things that can generally lose a huge
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percentage of their value in 24 hours or
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less and and that to me that's what
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crypto is today now in the future that
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might be different but what also I I
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can't make a real case for crypto
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increasing in value what's driving it
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except for demand which was somewhat
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artificially uh created during the covet
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pandemic with all these people staying
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home and trying to get rich quick and
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nothing else to do sure throw some money
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at crypto and see if you win the lottery
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but is it a viable investment today not
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to me but I do I love the blockchain
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technology correct and I do think that
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there is a viable future for crypto just
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not on the investment side today would
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it surprise you if the um this going
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down a little bit of a conspiracy rabbit
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hole but not much would it surprise you
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if the government or governments
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eventually controlled that crypto space
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or at least wiped out most of the crypto
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because they created a US coin or you
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know Biden coin trunk coin whatever
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whoever's not my point is
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I see the the government's plural liking
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the crypto blockchain space because
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if you if that was in place you
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literally could text people real time
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April 15th would go away you you could
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steer
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um policy via that way
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I don't want you to put on the tinfoil
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hat because you're most you're one of
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the most rational people I know what is
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your take on that and have you thought
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through kind of where this is all headed
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Maybe
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I I do think about it and a lot of it is
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driven by my clients because they're
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asking me the same question right all
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the time we get it so much and and my
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thinking is that yes the government
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would definitely be interested in
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something like that and also I'm not
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sure that they could pull it off due to
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uh just a whole variety of reasons the
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constitutionality of it the uh the
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Constitution what are you talking about
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I know I know crazy crazy
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a few hundred years ago but no big deal
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there
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um I just don't know I they might try it
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but I do think it might get shot down in
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the legal system it's it's just doesn't
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it seems like such overreach that I
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would I feel like at some point there
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would be groups of people with with a
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lot of power who would oppose it and be
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able to uh stop such a such a clear
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overreach of government in that case but
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gosh from a government standpoint if
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you're looking at how do I control my
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voting base yeah what better way to do
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it than to control their money it's a
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it's an absolute no-brainer if I'm a
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politician and the only thing that
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gives me pause a little bit is if you'd
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have told me they could have shut down
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the government printed money and created
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an environment where people don't want
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to work sure I just said I don't believe
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that I mean that's that's crazy but I
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was having a conversation with a friend
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last night and he's like I think we've
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lost
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you know some of the younger people you
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know right right right out of high
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school or right into college out of
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college they just really don't want to
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work I don't know about you but I I try
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to hire people all the time and we
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cannot find people that want to work
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five days a week we just can't they they
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literally will go come into an interview
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and say yeah I'm I would love to work
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for your company but I'd like for it to
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be flexible I'm not sure I want to work
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Fridays I'm like you just need to start
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your own company player I mean that's
9:46
but we're seeing that and I think that's
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a
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um that's a result of coven with that
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being said I do think this country is
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different from other countries is when
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we have a horrific thing happen like
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that covid we get better do you see
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businesses
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getting better I.E streamlining
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Etc based upon what happened
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I do and and to some degree I think it
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has been part of the reason the Market's
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improved I I think that businesses are
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very especially small businesses are
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very good at adapting to whatever
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situation is thrown at them and I I
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think that the covid response really
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changed the way people work and think
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about work and I definitely think you're
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seeing it reflected in the in the
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younger people's attitudes but the the
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fact is they have had a lot of options
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you can you could go and work three uh
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1099 contractor jobs uh sort of side
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hustles and make a decent living at
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least enough people to buy and so yeah
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they say that but they really do have
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that option now I think that's changing
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I think the power structure is Shifting
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back towards the employer uh as the
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further we get away from covid that's a
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good point for the last three years
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they've kind of they're kind of right
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they kind of have had that ability to do
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that
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um now is that the way the world is
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gonna gonna go in the future is it
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always going to be like that I I'm not
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exactly sure but I do see the power
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structure shifting back to companies and
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and hopefully young people are young
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people are known for being able to adapt
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so hopefully they can adapt and and come
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back to the more I guess traditional way
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of thinking about work
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I think businesses became and are
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continuing to become more efficient with
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how they do business and um the only
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thing that concerns me I'd love to hear
11:36
your comment on this sector was just the
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commercial real estate space
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um I know in Las Vegas
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um there's a lot of beautiful buildings
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that are that are business Commercial
11:46
that are that are empty and and it
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doesn't look like anyone's moving in
11:51
right are you buying any REITs in that
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space are you staying away I'm staying
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away right now I don't love that space
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But I do think it's it's probably a
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shift I did see an article the other day
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that there was a uh a chain of stores
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that went out of business and an
12:05
e-commerce company came in and bought up
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all the locations just to use them as uh
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as facilities for their for their for
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shipping out of their for their
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e-commerce business sure and I think we
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may see more things like that start to
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happen things that have been traditional
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storefronts might change into uh offices
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or or
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um or places that a point of sale or
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shipping or I don't uh distribution
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um businesses so I think there's a lot
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of reshuffling that's going to happen
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um over the next five to ten years in
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the commercial space I don't think that
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you're I don't think that you're going
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to see the the country just go back to
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what it was I think it's going to change
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substantially yeah maybe some of those
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old uh commercial buildings get turned
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into condos because the rate that
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they're putting up condos around the
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country is is just astronomical at least
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here in Florida and I and some in some
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of my travels it looks like other places
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as well so I think uh I think you will
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see that I completely change from what
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it was and I would not be a huge
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investor in the commercial Reit industry
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or in a commercial building right now
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although there are Pockets like here in
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in Jacksonville Beach where I am the
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retail side of things doesn't seem to
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have been affected at all if anything
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we're seeing a ton of restaurants open
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and a ton of new businesses come to the
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area so it may be somewhat location
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dependent too which in real estate is
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usually the case are you concerned at
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all about just housing in general from
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the standpoint of
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the black rocks of the world or whoever
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those people are buying up large
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tranches of you know single-family homes
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and controlling that space
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where do you think that's headed because
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it doesn't look like interest rate
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raises have dampened
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demand a lot no it really hasn't
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surprisingly if that's the same question
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last year I would have said yeah I'm
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really worried about it exactly but
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today not really I feel like the that
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the black rocks of the world who got in
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a year or two ago and are are leasing
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out they're still using the properties
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as single-family homes that they're just
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for lease instead of for purchase and so
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I don't think it really dampens the
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overall supply of available units for
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rental or purchase now it may drive
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prices up on new purchases a bit but the
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market is so much bigger than even what
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BlackRock can can do so they might
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control one town by buying a huge amount
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of properties in that area but the the
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U.S market is just way too large for
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BlackRock to really even have a minor
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effect on so that specific issue doesn't
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worry me that much and also if if uh if
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prices come down they won't control that
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either and they're going to be the ones
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left holding the bag and have to sell
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those properties at a discount so the
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the fact is they're going to get caught
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up in market dynamics whether they like
15:02
it or not and they can't control it no
15:05
matter how big BlackRock is if now if
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they were just doing that and and not
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doing anything else with all their
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trillions of dollars then sure that
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would worry me but it's just such a
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small part of their business I don't I
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don't spend a lot of time worrying about
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that
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um
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supply chain you know my wife and I
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commented on this a lot where we see the
15:27
lack of availability of things that used
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to be easy to get in the United States
15:31
we're very spoiled as a country uh
15:34
pre-covered we were used to getting
15:36
anything not having to wait Etc
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are you seeing the same things and if so
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why is this still happening and why
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hasn't it been fixed from a supply chain
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standpoint
15:48
yeah it's interesting because I I do see
15:52
a bit of that it's on some really random
15:55
stuff though I know it's not it's not as
15:58
widespread as it used to be clearly a
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lot of that has been solved but it does
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still exist and yeah every once in a
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while I'll run into it and just kind of
16:05
scratch my head how can they still be
16:07
having this issue uh but if you look at
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the statistics on a national basis the
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um the purchasing uh survey that comes
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out monthly
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pretty much everything has been fixed in
16:20
the data now we're still seeing it pop
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up here and there on certain items but
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if you look at the National Data it's
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gotten so much better than where it was
16:29
a year ago and two years ago when
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everything was just so wonky that you
16:34
you couldn't get any inputs for
16:36
manufacturing you couldn't and that
16:38
meant you couldn't get any Goods on the
16:39
on the downstream side either so uh I
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think that those issues will slowly go
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away over the next couple of years but
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yeah it's still happening and I think
16:49
it's still like I said it's sort of the
16:51
covet effect of there's just some parts
16:54
of China that were later to open than
16:56
others and maybe the factory was located
16:58
there or there's a whole host of reasons
17:00
shipping could have been the issue
17:02
although the shipping issues if you look
17:04
at the data have shipping prices have
17:06
come down to pre-covered levels
17:08
um I'm talking about containers coming
17:10
over from Asia and so those types of uh
17:14
those types of hurdles are much less
17:16
than they used to be but that doesn't
17:17
mean not a single company couldn't get
17:19
caught up in it or have issues with that
17:21
so I think that's what we're seeing now
17:23
very much on a spot basis rather than as
17:27
a a entire the entire world has been
17:31
affected by this covet shutdown and and
17:33
we can't get anything right
17:36
I'm talking to Adam Van we are then we
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have all that those links Etc uh one of
18:05
the things I wanted to talk to you about
18:07
is a is you know China in general you
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know because I'm I'm kind of tired of
18:12
the whole China thing that
18:14
you know we're we're afraid of China
18:16
what's gonna you know are they going to
18:18
overtake us what's your take on them
18:19
because to me they're not they're not a
18:21
threat
18:22
no not to us but if I were Taiwan I
18:25
might be a little bit worried I I think
18:28
that China is uh China right now as an
18:31
investment which is how I tend to look
18:33
at everything is not a place that we're
18:35
putting money
18:36
um they've made a lot of missteps
18:38
recently I I think that historically
18:41
they've been really really good at doing
18:43
all the right things at all the right
18:45
times but lately I feel like they're
18:46
sort of out of step with with the global
18:49
politics I'll put it that way they they
18:52
haven't been doing the things that I
18:54
think that they should do to stay on top
18:57
or or trying to get to that top position
18:59
I I think they really really slipped
19:02
lately and and outside of uh Taiwan they
19:05
worry me a lot less than what they used
19:07
to
19:08
you know the Taiwan thing's an
19:10
interesting one because that could be
19:11
the game changers like that's the Ace of
19:13
Spades that they're getting ready to
19:15
play and call our Bluff yeah but we'll
19:19
see what happens with that
19:21
um but as a you know just as a as a
19:23
threat I don't see that I mean yes
19:25
they're huge and they have a zillion
19:27
people and yeah I get it but from a
19:30
technology standpoint Innovation
19:32
standpoint creativity standpoint I just
19:34
this country I'm a homer here a little
19:37
bit but I I have full faith in what
19:40
we're doing let's pivot a little bit uh
19:42
internationally obviously
19:44
um the war continues uh Russia keeps
19:47
playing around and that doesn't seem to
19:49
affect the markets but I'm always
19:52
thinking we're one dirty bomb away from
19:54
chaos yeah what are you telling your
19:57
clients right here
19:59
uh with the Russia situation uh speaking
20:01
of countries that have really shown to
20:03
be not what we thought they were I mean
20:05
Russia can't even handle an invasion of
20:07
a small neighbor are they really a
20:09
threat to us outside the nuclear Arena
20:11
obviously right but wow their their army
20:16
looks inept their their leadership looks
20:18
weak it's just from one thing to another
20:20
just not what we thought they were at
20:22
all uh but yes as far as a dirty bomb
20:25
goes or a new I mean that is the the
20:28
real concern there but uh honestly what
20:31
there's nothing that we can do to change
20:33
whatever is going to happen there so for
20:36
now we have to go with the information
20:37
that they have and and even Putin's uh
20:41
crazy mind hasn't seemed to go to that
20:44
that area yet at least so I think we
20:48
have to um I think we have to assume
20:50
that that is he wants to get this done
20:52
but not in that way and and hopefully
20:54
that will continue but really I mean
20:57
that is The X Factor nothing thing we
20:59
can do to control it the only thing that
21:02
we can do is continue to invest in a in
21:04
a balanced portfolio that has right
21:06
that's at risk assets and I don't think
21:08
we're going to adjust our portfolios
21:11
based on a land war in Asia just not not
21:14
our that's not really in our purview
21:16
right now
21:18
Russia has been taking off a lot of
21:20
investment lists in in indices haven't
21:23
they I mean there's a lot of flow that's
21:25
not going in right yeah we're still
21:27
getting a whenever we log into our um
21:30
our TD Ameritrade website there's still
21:33
a thing that pops up that says that
21:34
Russian Securities are very limited if
21:36
you can trade them at all so uh so yeah
21:39
it's been it's not really an investable
21:41
country right now
21:44
nor would I want to for that it's going
21:46
to be interesting to see just how Putin
21:49
survives this politically and actually I
21:53
guess physically I mean I do think
21:55
there's internal threats with them um
21:57
but there's always Wars man there's
21:59
always stuff that's happening
22:01
and obviously we're going into
22:04
election season do you think the
22:06
election regardless of who wins either
22:07
way I know both of us are not really
22:09
political you know we're we're
22:12
conservative monetarily that doesn't you
22:15
know that that's a broad spectrum I
22:17
always tell people I'm conservative when
22:19
it comes to money because you know
22:21
that's what we do for sure
22:23
um forget politics in fact turn off turn
22:25
off the cable please
22:28
um
22:29
do you think the election of the same
22:32
people
22:33
is going to looks like it is going to
22:36
affect positive positive or negatively
22:39
the markets I mean first of all I do
22:42
want to say that there's a lot of time
22:43
between now and the election and
22:45
hopefully things can change because uh
22:48
they're just recycling the same people
22:50
over and over yeah we do better I'm see
22:52
I mean literally as a country if I'm I'm
22:54
looking inside I'm going that's all you
22:56
got right this is the the best options
22:59
really come on
23:01
I do there are some people running that
23:04
I think are a lot better candidates but
23:06
the the establishment
23:08
and the media they just won't let it
23:11
happen it's so frustrating as a as a
23:14
someone who really hates politics I hate
23:16
all of it it makes it disgusted and I
23:19
don't watch the cable news and uh yeah
23:22
so I but I do think there's better
23:24
there's better ideas out there they just
23:26
aren't allowed to come to the surface
23:28
and and um so I think the the one good
23:32
thing out of that is that you kind of
23:33
know what you're getting either whatever
23:35
happens you kind of know what you're
23:37
getting and they both yeah it's one side
23:40
has has seen a little bit of a dip in
23:42
the market but it's starting to bounce
23:43
back and the other side was really good
23:46
until covet so
23:48
um so economy wise I don't think that
23:51
either one is going to be a complete
23:53
disaster there's obviously one side that
23:55
I think has a little bit better track
23:57
record but I don't think it's I don't
23:59
think it's going to make that much of a
24:01
difference honestly the common theme in
24:03
the culprit in my opinion is the media
24:05
both sides
24:06
and if you're out there as a listener or
24:08
a viewer and you're defending one side
24:09
of the media you're the problem okay
24:11
that's right
24:12
um You are the you are the problem if
24:14
the media is is in the way of
24:17
unbelievable success and growth of this
24:19
country because they have agendas and it
24:22
literally
24:23
drives me crazy to the point where I I
24:26
about three months ago I used to watch
24:28
it just because clients talked about it
24:30
I if if you want to call me and schedule
24:32
call with me and talk politics
24:34
good luck man because I'm not watching
24:37
any of it period it doesn't matter I'm
24:41
I'm looking more at the monetary side
24:43
and I'm gauging what's happening based
24:46
on that and based with on conversations
24:47
with people like Adam great story a
24:50
recent podcast I just did with a guy
24:52
named Larry kotlikov which is a um he's
24:55
a renowned economics professor from
24:58
Boston University and for people that
25:00
are political wonks he ran for president
25:01
a while back just based on economics
25:08
hopefully it would work of course they
25:10
shot him down because it's so pragmatic
25:12
and he's not on he's not politically
25:14
correct but boy it would be nice to have
25:18
a business a true business person not an
25:20
inheritance baby in there that or or
25:23
lifetime politician that really has run
25:26
businesses
25:27
I only think there's a couple there's a
25:29
handful in in the races now that have
25:31
actually run a business and met a
25:33
payroll am I right yeah definitely
25:35
they're out there and I've been
25:37
listening to some of their I don't like
25:39
politics but I am I am because of my job
25:42
I have to stand up but I do like hearing
25:45
good ideas so I have been listening to
25:48
some of the people that have thrown
25:49
their hat in the ring that aren't as
25:50
popular and don't have a chance and
25:53
don't have a chance but man they really
25:54
have some great ideas Unfortunately they
25:57
just won't ever get there and part of
25:59
the problem is this country has adopted
26:01
a sports team mentality but for Quality
26:04
so well if you find that you are rooting
26:09
for your team regardless of how bad the
26:12
person is or their ideas are you're
26:14
doing it wrong that is not how we should
26:17
be thinking about politics we should be
26:19
voting for people with the best new
26:21
ideas and the best leadership ideas not
26:24
because they wear the right lapel pin or
26:28
uh or have the letter by their name it
26:31
just doesn't make any sense and it just
26:34
really frustrates me into no way and
26:36
here's the two reasons it's not going to
26:38
change the first reason is always tell
26:39
people think of the dumbest person
26:40
you've ever met at a cocktail party of
26:42
when you stop talking to them you felt
26:43
like you lost IQ that person votes and
26:46
they vote nullifies you the other thing
26:48
that is a scary one is sixty percent of
26:52
the of adults in in the United States
26:53
have less than 400 on their checking
26:55
account that's right so they're going to
26:57
vote differently about monetary policy
27:00
their voting survival
27:02
that's they're voting them and you can't
27:05
really blame them but sixty percent
27:07
moves the needle and the politicians
27:09
certainly know that I always have to
27:11
remind my clients I'm sure you do yours
27:13
as well whether you think you're the
27:15
evil rich you are
27:16
you you are the evil rich politically so
27:19
you know live your life maximize do the
27:23
best you can but you're not going to be
27:24
able to move the needle because you're
27:25
being out voted and that's doing that's
27:28
that's going to increase over time
27:31
in my opinion
27:33
um do you agree I do unfortunately
27:36
that's yeah even someone who I mean you
27:39
could be looking at a couple of retired
27:41
teachers who have either a pension or a
27:43
401k that they funded their entire lives
27:45
and they have a moderate amount of money
27:47
they'll probably have a nice retirement
27:50
they're never going to be rich but guess
27:52
what they're rich that according to
27:54
politicians they are the evil rich and
27:57
how can you say that about a couple that
28:00
has worked their entire lives and did
28:02
everything right and probably made a lot
28:04
of sacrifices to get there and then
28:06
they're the bad guys I mean how what is
28:09
wrong with this country and why are we
28:11
viewing things that way it just doesn't
28:13
make any sense it is sad if peop there's
28:15
a book that Adam Adam and I both are
28:17
familiar with is from way back called
28:18
Millionaire Next Door A Millionaire Next
28:21
Door describes what Adam just talked
28:23
about which is people that scrimped and
28:25
saved and did without 20 years later
28:27
they look up and they have a
28:28
seven-figure portfolio yet they still
28:30
are couponing at at the local grocery
28:33
store which I get I understand those
28:36
scars of scarcity but but I always tell
28:39
people if you don't think you're rich
28:40
you are and I give them that you know
28:42
six out of ten people I just say hey
28:43
you're driving down the road whatever
28:44
road that is six of those cars around
28:46
you of the ten cars you see have 400
28:49
your checking account drive slow and
28:51
drive in the right lane please because
28:53
that's the reason for the legit
28:55
litigious nature of this of this country
28:57
question
28:59
um what are the potential
29:01
hiccups speed bumps pitfalls that you
29:04
see
29:05
that might happen but you hope don't
29:07
going forward
29:09
well I think we addressed some of them
29:11
we've got the issues in Asia China and
29:14
uh and Russia and so those are those are
29:17
the big ones right now in my mind
29:19
um the other ones would be a a sudden
29:22
turnaround in the inflation data that
29:24
would be a bad one right now the
29:25
inflation data is heading lower as it
29:28
should after after a disastrous last
29:30
year where we saw above nine percent
29:32
inflation and that's what the government
29:34
admits to so you know it was even don't
29:36
you think they're cooking the books and
29:38
as soon as they can
29:39
politically feel like they can lower
29:42
rates they will
29:44
hmm that's a good question I don't know
29:47
what Powell's gonna do they've been
29:49
signaling they're going to go even
29:50
higher which I think is a mistake at
29:52
this point totally it's a total mistake
29:54
even though it makes me very very
29:56
successful in my hand
29:59
um you know we we're going 100 miles an
30:01
hour but sure I can't see it I I don't
30:03
see the justification I don't see it
30:06
either I don't think they've given it
30:07
enough time for the rate hikes to work
30:09
their way through the system it takes a
30:10
long time as we know for things to for
30:14
the financial world to have a reaction
30:16
to things that have happened so think
30:18
about covid we didn't see inflation top
30:21
out yeah nine percent until last summer
30:24
that's 2022 covet happened in 2020 so we
30:27
were pumping money into the system for
30:29
over a year and a half two years before
30:31
we really saw the repercussions now they
30:34
expect to lower rates over the course of
30:36
what eight nine months and then
30:38
determine whether or not it's worked on
30:40
the ninth month no you have to give it
30:42
an equal at least an equal amount a time
30:45
for that it took for the inflation to
30:46
pop up for it to go away so it just
30:50
doesn't make any sense for them to
30:51
expect an immediate read on how their
30:54
actions have affected the economy when
30:56
that isn't what happened on the other
30:58
side
31:00
pivot again because that's how my brain
31:03
works Adam you know
31:04
um these ESG funds in that what they're
31:07
called the environmental I read an
31:09
article last night that when I read it I
31:12
I literally put my phone down and just
31:14
just let out the biggest groan because
31:17
what it was saying was
31:19
there's one lady that literally decides
31:23
who's who's acceptable
31:25
I forgot who she works with it could be
31:27
one of the big firms I don't know but
31:29
she had put
31:30
Exxon in front of Tesla yeah and I'm
31:34
thinking of my and and I'm not at listen
31:37
muscus is is a is a freak he's an alien
31:40
he's smart I could carry either way okay
31:42
but he had a good point how are they in
31:44
front of him and he's not putting out
31:46
any carbon emissions and it comes down
31:48
to political but I also saw the money
31:51
raised in these funds was like upwards
31:54
to 30 trillion or some crazy amount
31:58
tell me your take on this and how is it
32:02
affecting markets and decisions that you
32:05
have to make even though you might not
32:07
agree with it absolutely so
32:10
first of all the politicism
32:13
politicization like if I could talk is
32:16
of everything is just so far beyond what
32:19
I ever thought it would be and this is
32:21
this issue is about as politicized as it
32:25
could be explain to people what it is I
32:28
mean I just threw out ESG as an acronym
32:29
I'm sure that's the right one but yeah
32:31
it stands for E stands for environmental
32:33
yep social and governance and what the
32:36
what it is is basically a ranking score
32:38
for for companies that want to be
32:41
considered uh politically correct
32:44
whatever uh environmentally friendly
32:48
um uh promoting what's the Genesis of
32:50
this it's not it's not been around a
32:52
long time Adam where did it come from
32:53
was it a black rock thing nothing
32:55
against BlackRock I have not I love
32:57
their building in Manhattan walk by it
32:58
all the time
33:00
yeah I I think it it all came out of uh
33:04
it it actually came from demand in the
33:07
marketplace and so people want to invest
33:10
especially younger people these days
33:12
they want to invest in ways that they
33:15
think are going to save the planet and
33:18
so that's that's where it came out of
33:20
the idea came out of something that was
33:22
probably good like most things and then
33:25
it got Twisted into this what it is
33:27
today which is a political ranking of
33:30
companies that uh that do the most for
33:34
politicians to consider them
33:36
environmentally and socially responsible
33:38
and so that's where we are today and the
33:41
problem is now
33:43
also look at this you you can own spy it
33:47
owns the it owns every five all of the
33:49
500 companies in the S P 500 or that's
33:52
the that's the ETF right it's an ETF
33:55
yeah or you can use the ESG ETF that
33:57
takes the at the S P 500 cuts out a
34:01
handful of companies that they don't
34:02
consider environmentally and socially
34:04
acceptable and they'll charge you maybe
34:08
60 more basis points to own the exact
34:11
same thing without a hundred other
34:13
companies and guess who makes more money
34:15
the ETF companies so who who do you
34:19
think the ETF companies aren't lobbying
34:21
to try and get this included in
34:23
everyone's 401k and Pension Plan why
34:26
because they make 60 more biffs every
34:28
time you own the ESG fund versus the the
34:30
S P 500 fund yeah
34:39
is an internal thing that us and the
34:42
business talk about people like bibs
34:44
what the heck is a bib yeah here's
34:46
here's the interesting part about that
34:48
is once again just kind of being the the
34:51
street person that I am grew up toward
34:53
North Carolina and and you know here we
34:55
are
34:57
um
34:57
if some per if it if it
35:01
monetarily benefits a company to be on
35:03
that list I'm going to tell you right
35:05
now people getting paid off I don't care
35:07
how what anyone says there's nothing
35:10
honorable going on on the background if
35:12
I know that I'm going to get extra
35:14
trillions or billions or hundreds of
35:16
billions in my coffers if my company
35:19
makes it on that list and there's a
35:21
handful of people that make that
35:23
decision
35:24
the handful of people making that
35:26
decision have are doing well and I think
35:29
that's the problem with it I don't I'm
35:31
like you conceptually got it understand
35:34
it there's an argument for it I
35:36
understand it but it's being bastardized
35:39
and I actually think it's it's
35:40
disrupting
35:42
normal flow within the business the
35:45
media doesn't cover it like the cnbc's
35:47
and the fox business because those
35:49
people buy ads right no doubt about it
35:52
uh yeah and getting on that list is is
35:54
very very important and you can I can
35:57
assure you that there's nobody who's
35:59
making the decision about who gets on
36:01
that list that isn't rich I wonder why
36:04
what's up bonds for a second bonds have
36:06
gotten the crap slapped out of them and
36:09
I love when people go well I've got Safe
36:10
Money and bonds tell me like two years
36:12
ago I'm like listen player
36:15
bonds are volatile there's more bonds
36:17
and they're all stocks and let me tell
36:19
you something be careful with closed in
36:20
bond funds and all that stuff you know
36:22
they used to do that in a previous life
36:24
and Adam does that every single day
36:27
Adam weigh in on bonds and what you're
36:29
telling your clients right here man I
36:31
love bonds today I really do it makes my
36:34
job so much easier when I can put a a
36:38
handful of their uh a portion of their
36:41
Investment Portfolio in something that's
36:43
going to yield you know four to six
36:45
percent and has an almost guaranteed
36:49
principal return at the end of the
36:51
period so I'm buying individual bonds
36:53
I'm buying treasuries I'm buying CDs
36:55
right now and we're putting a good
36:56
amount of money and all of those and
36:58
getting a nice return now the
37:00
opportunity cost of that is that that
37:02
money wasn't in QQQ or the NASDAQ
37:05
ETF or or something else this year and
37:08
so it didn't make 30 so far but that's
37:11
not what we were shooting for with that
37:13
part of the portfolio we're shooting for
37:15
a safe guaranteed return and bond prices
37:17
are down and yields are up to me that's
37:20
a buying opportunity I I really like
37:22
bonds I think like you that the
37:24
government is itching to bring rates
37:26
back down absolutely as they can and
37:28
when that happens bond prices will rise
37:30
and so if you own it you're getting a
37:32
great yield and the price is going to go
37:33
up seems like a no-brainer yeah the
37:36
correlation I make with bonds and the
37:37
and blue palette and the Dutch boy
37:39
haircut yelling love her haircut by the
37:42
way
37:43
um is that
37:44
think about if you had a mortgage
37:48
a lot of people don't there to listen
37:49
but they just assume that you do and you
37:51
just raise the interest rate and you
37:53
just keep raising the interest rate
37:54
eventually that don't make sense because
37:56
you got to service the debt and you're
37:58
going to lower it it's that correlation
37:59
is that simple with what the fed's doing
38:02
with 30 plus trillion however you want
38:04
to count it in debt every time they
38:07
raise that interest rate
38:09
that payment gets a little more chunky
38:11
and that's the reason I think that all
38:14
of these this data can be cooked
38:16
politically and presented through the
38:19
media politically to justify the
38:22
lowering of the rates that's the reason
38:24
I think as soon as they feel like they
38:26
have cover to do that
38:28
they will it'll probably be after the
38:30
election which makes me mad but you know
38:33
it is what it is do you agree with that
38:35
I do I do I completely agree it's the
38:38
same reason they can't tell you that
38:40
what the actual inflation numbers are
38:41
because every time inflation goes up
38:43
they have to raise Social Security by
38:46
the equivalent amount and so it benefits
38:48
them to lie to you on the low side so
38:51
they don't have to raise Social Security
38:52
as much as inflation is it really is or
38:55
in some of the calculations they don't
38:57
include gas or food okay great that's
38:59
fantastic yeah that that doesn't play
39:01
into anybody's inflation I always tell
39:04
my clients first of all inflation is
39:06
customizable meaning it affects everyone
39:09
differently secondly if you're well off
39:12
and the evil rich please stop bitching
39:15
about that because you're going to be
39:17
fine it's a moment in time for you it
39:19
always hits the low end of society the
39:21
worst those six out of ten driving
39:23
around with 400 in a checking account
39:25
inflation is a four letter word trust me
39:28
on that one but for the rest of us that
39:30
are fortunate most of the people that
39:31
are listening to this podcast
39:33
yeah you've scrimped and saved and done
39:35
with that and you're here for a reason
39:36
monetarily and financially but you can
39:40
buy the eggs you'll be good you can
39:41
afford the eggs you can afford the gas
39:43
you know my I tell a story about my wife
39:46
calling me from the grocery store and
39:47
saying can you believe the price of eggs
39:48
is a few a little bit a little a few
39:51
months back and I'm like buy every egg
39:52
buy every carton buy them all we're good
39:55
you know don't worry about it okay it's
39:58
for the person that has five kids and
40:00
and they're not making it that's those
40:02
are the people that I'm I'm truly
40:04
concerned about another question that
40:06
popped in my head was
40:08
we we know of all the mistakes that
40:11
investors make you know panicking not
40:13
you know it's not staying of course all
40:15
that stuff what are some new mistakes
40:17
that are that are making you scratch
40:19
your head that you're that you're
40:20
hearing what are the new ones that
40:22
people are saying I mean the new ones
40:25
are just the old ones that they
40:26
repackaged yeah
40:30
the worst one that I've seen lately is
40:32
that people who were so excited to get a
40:35
five percent return on a treasury bill
40:37
are now calling me and regretting buying
40:40
the t-bell because they could have put
40:42
it in the the market and made 15 oh God
40:45
oh my God it's so frustrating you that's
40:49
why you have a balanced portfolio you're
40:52
happy with the five percent on that
40:54
portion and you're happy with the 15 on
40:57
the other portion and you're never gonna
41:00
get it exactly right you can't time the
41:02
market
41:03
and so it's just the same old same it's
41:05
the same old same old it's amazing it's
41:07
amazing that people
41:09
um you know we're back to where we were
41:11
from the standpoint of the country
41:12
having more credit card debt than we've
41:14
ever had you know all of those I'm never
41:17
gonna let that happen to me again to
41:19
those like 2008 really okay
41:22
um that's the reason that I love Adam's
41:24
approach uh van wefinancial.com again
41:26
I'll have it don't have to write it down
41:28
I'll have all this contact information I
41:30
encourage you to talk to him no
41:31
obligation no cost he'll talk to you
41:33
Adam with that being said can you
41:36
explain your approach
41:39
that you feel separates you from other
41:43
fee only
41:44
planners and explain that as well
41:47
sure uh first of all I I think that if
41:50
you are going to hire a financial
41:51
planner please find a fiduciary please
41:53
find someone that's fee only I am not
41:56
the only one I think I'm the best one
41:57
but that's that's personal yeah you know
41:59
I got to call your wife and see if she
42:01
concurs but I'm not sure can you call
42:03
someone else who likes me more exactly
42:05
all right but I think that I think that
42:08
with us you do get a very Personal Touch
42:10
we meet with all our clients uh up to
42:13
four or five times a year we send out
42:15
reminders four times a year and that
42:17
could be virtual that could be face to
42:18
face it's their call correct yeah
42:20
there's we have clients all over the
42:21
country
42:22
um and so it's not it's not limited to
42:24
northeast Florida although the bulk of
42:26
our clients are here sure uh but we're
42:29
very personal we know all of our clients
42:31
really well we know their situations we
42:33
do a a financial plan for all of them
42:36
most of them anyway some people just
42:38
want uh just want us to manage their
42:40
money that's fine but a lot of people
42:41
what they what they do want is a little
42:44
bit more than just someone to manage
42:46
your money they want to take a look at
42:48
their entire Financial picture figure
42:50
out how to how to make sure that they
42:52
never run out of money in retirement
42:54
figure out how to what the best cost
42:57
effective uh ways are to distribute
43:00
their money in retirement
43:01
um we consider taxes we consider it is
43:04
consider estate planning we consider
43:05
insurance we really look at the whole
43:08
picture there is I think that that is if
43:11
someone just wants to talk about their
43:13
investment strategy with you and doesn't
43:14
want to talk about your whole financial
43:15
picture you're probably in the wrong
43:17
place explain fee only versus fee based
43:21
sure feebased is just a term that uh
43:24
that people who sell things use to try
43:27
and look like they're fee only honestly
43:29
they're double they're double dipping in
43:31
this exactly so they'll have a portion
43:33
of what they do that's fee only but then
43:35
the other portion is commission based
43:37
and so fee based is just a kind of a
43:40
slick way of trying to sound like what
43:41
we are which is fee only which means we
43:43
don't sell anything we don't make any
43:45
commissions we only are we make money
43:48
based on the the port managing or
43:50
portfolio it's a percentage of the total
43:52
assets sure the reason that that I think
43:54
that that is better is that when you
43:56
have more money we make more money so
43:58
our incentive is to grow your assets you
44:01
get wealthier we get wealthier it works
44:03
out for everybody now I'm not saying
44:05
that commissioned people are bad that is
44:07
not thank you because that's me but I
44:09
understand but but seriously I tell
44:12
people all the time for your non-annuity
44:14
portfolio you need a fee only planner
44:16
period you know you can't have all your
44:18
money and annuities I won't let you and
44:20
a lot of people don't need them so but
44:23
that's the reason that I have you on so
44:25
people have because in essence I've
44:27
vetted Adam you know I've known Adam for
44:30
a long long time every single person
44:32
I've referred to him comes back with
44:34
glowing
44:36
um comments and they love working with
44:39
him so I would encourage you to to check
44:41
him out if you can kind of tell from
44:43
just the way people talk and their
44:45
demeanor I would encourage you if you're
44:46
listening to the podcast is to go with
44:48
my fun go on my fun with annuities
44:50
YouTube channel check him out you know
44:52
he's kind of a kind of a Dashing Young
44:54
man
44:55
um you know I can say that because I'm
44:56
I'm old
44:58
um we got a few minutes but I I wanted
45:00
to get your input on artificial
45:04
intelligence
45:06
the AI thing is the acronym that I think
45:09
is going to dominate the next couple
45:11
years
45:13
how is it going to affect
45:16
the market if at all and if it's so how
45:19
tell me tell me your take on all this it
45:22
already has uh honestly we in the last
45:24
couple weeks we've seen AI related
45:27
businesses and just Tech in general just
45:30
take off I mean it has been incredible
45:32
that this entire Market rally over the
45:35
last month has more or less been
45:36
dedicated or been driven by AI
45:39
um it's such I really think it's an
45:41
untapped uh sort of resource that we're
45:44
just now getting a handle on now it's
45:47
also really scary because some of the
45:49
things you can do with it are just it is
45:51
it is nuts it is yeah so it scares me a
45:54
bit but at the same time the the
45:56
potential of what it can do is is pretty
45:58
amazing I think that uh I think that if
46:01
you don't have a portion of your
46:03
portfolio dedicated to Tech or AI
46:06
related things that it's probably a
46:07
mistake I think that everyone should
46:10
have a little bit in there because
46:11
that's where all the Innovation is
46:13
coming from right now and I've said this
46:15
for a long time people always ask me
46:17
Adam is the is the tech is Tech
46:19
overbought is it is it is that trade
46:22
done and and I say no I don't think it
46:24
is even though it's seen you know 20 30
46:27
returns many times over the last 10
46:29
years I think it still has room to run
46:31
because that's what's driving the whole
46:33
economy forward right now is innovation
46:36
in the tech space and and man I think
46:38
this this new technology is just we're
46:40
at the Forefront of AI not not in the
46:42
middle or at the end you know we've
46:44
talked about if you said what's the top
46:46
three new innovation sectors that you're
46:49
probably following it's it I don't know
46:50
the order but it's artificial
46:52
intelligence number one or two
46:55
blockchain would be number one or two is
46:57
there a third one that I'm missing and
46:58
not thinking about
47:00
uh I mean those are those are clearly
47:02
the two biggest but I think there's a
47:04
lot of sort of ancillary Industries
47:07
related to those
47:09
um I I guess you could make an argument
47:10
for like the battery uh the battery
47:13
space man that's a good point yeah I'm
47:16
like Adam you know if if you know on the
47:19
side we should start the company to
47:21
develop the battery I don't have I don't
47:23
have the background on that I'm hoping
47:24
you do
47:25
um but that one is the killer app so
47:28
literally those three
47:30
I think looking into those three that's
47:34
where it's going to happen my opinion of
47:35
course I'm probably wrong but those are
47:38
the obvious ones in my in my opinion
47:40
yeah I I agree I I think that no matter
47:43
what you're doing you've got to power it
47:44
so you've got the batteries the AI is
47:46
sort of the well yeah yeah it's uh so I
47:50
I think those three areas and and
47:51
honestly you can own all of those by
47:53
owning certain Tech funds it's not uh
47:56
it's it's not like it's difficult to do
47:58
in fact if you if you can imagine it
48:00
there's probably an ETF that exists for
48:02
it already today uh that's how that and
48:05
if not there will be yeah and that's why
48:08
you need to talk to Adam don't do the
48:10
research call Adam for God's sakes I
48:12
mean that's what he does every single
48:13
day he's thinking like that I ask him
48:15
that question not knowing the battery
48:17
answer but when he said it I think the
48:19
entire country listening to this podcast
48:21
went oh yeah and that's the OEM moment
48:25
of why you don't need to be doing it
48:27
yourself you Masters of the Universe out
48:29
there either
48:30
and you need to hire a good team around
48:34
you to take care of your financial
48:38
stuff
48:39
and because you know one of the things I
48:41
always tell people Adam you probably do
48:43
too chapter two of your life your
48:45
part-time job is your money and your
48:47
state in your family in addition to your
48:50
health and getting things lined up and
48:52
that's what I love about what Adam does
48:53
he gets all that lined up and so that
48:56
when you meet with him
48:58
um whether virtually or in person he's
49:01
going to provide those detailed answers
49:03
I thought of an interesting marketing
49:05
plan for you Adam because we you know
49:07
one I live part-time here Adam lives
49:09
here and there's the Mayo Clinic and the
49:11
Mayo Clinic is I think here Jacksonville
49:13
Minneapolis and Arizona okay people fly
49:18
in all the time to the Mayo Clinic I
49:20
mean to get into the Mayo Clinic is
49:22
impossible there's a waiting list
49:24
think about this why wouldn't you just
49:27
fly in to Jacksonville go to
49:28
Jacksonville Beach hang out
49:31
and go see Adam once a year why wouldn't
49:33
that be part of your retirement and just
49:36
people flying in like the Mayo because
49:38
people fly into the Mayo because they
49:40
know they're going to get honest advice
49:42
and top-notch service and the best
49:45
that's Adam seriously and I and I'm so
49:49
happy and proud to have him on Adam we
49:51
gotta we gotta tie it up here because we
49:54
both you got to get to watching the
49:56
screens and doing your thing
49:58
um but what we do as you know at the end
50:00
of um the podcast on fun with annuities
50:03
is we do a mic drop moment of which I'm
50:05
going to count you down 54321 and you're
50:07
gonna wow us at them there's no pressure
50:09
whatsoever you're going to allow us with
50:11
a short Soliloquy comment that people
50:15
are gonna listen to get in their car get
50:17
on that treadmill and go man that made
50:19
my day so no pressure whatsoever here we
50:21
go Adam Van we in five four three two
50:26
one go I think the best thing that I can
50:29
leave you with right now is just don't
50:32
be that guy that makes all the classic
50:35
mistakes in investing I mean if the last
50:38
year has taught us nothing it's taught
50:39
you that if you sold out last year in
50:42
July or August or October
50:46
look at what's happened to the market
50:47
and no one no one was predicting what
50:49
happened this year in the market and so
50:51
you have to have a plan you have to stay
50:54
the course don't be reactive don't try
50:57
and time the market you will end up
50:58
hurting your own results and you you
51:01
won't get anything positive out of it
51:03
just don't be that guy I I can't stress
51:06
it or now you can't do it you can't
51:09
predict what's going to happen in the
51:10
market don't try just stick with your
51:13
plans set a good plan history tells you
51:15
that it's going to work trust it it will
51:18
happen even when things look really
51:20
really Bleak like last October that
51:22
there's always a the the turnaround is
51:25
coming got it that's Adam then we have
51:28
been we Financial I want to thank all
51:29
the people listen to us on the major
51:31
podcast platforms and the YouTube
51:33
channel fund with annuities I will see
51:35
you next time
51:41
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