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  • 2322 FBF: Corruption at the World Bank with Karen Hudes Whistleblower and Former Attorney with the World Bank & Export Import Bank of the US
    Jul 11 2025

    This Flashback Friday is from episode 345, published last November 5, 2013.

    Karen Hudes studied law at Yale Law School and economics at the University of Amsterdam. She worked in the US Export Import Bank of the US from 1980-1985 and in the Legal Department of the World Bank from 1986-2007. She established the Non Governmental Organization Committee of the International Law Section of the American Bar Association and the Committee on Multilateralism and the Accountability of International Organizations of the American Branch of the International Law Association.

    In 1999 Karen reported the corrupt take-over of the second largest bank in the Philippines. The Bank’s Country Director in the Philippines reassigned Karen when she asked him to sign a letter warning the Philippines’ government that the Bank could not disburse its loan. Two days after informing the Board’s Audit Committee of the cover-up in the Philippines, Karen was reprimanded and placed on probation. The Chair of the World Bank’s Audit Committee requested an inquiry into the World Bank’s Institutional Integrity Department. The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations followed up with three letters to the World Bank. The World Bank forged documents and fired Karen in contempt of Congress.

    In 2007 Karen advised the US Treasury Department and US Congress that the US would lose its right to appoint the President of the World Bank if the current American President of the World Bank did not play by the rules. The 66 year old Gentlemen’s Agreement that Europe would appoint the Managing Director of the IMF and US would appoint the World Bank President ended in 2010.

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  • 2321: Trump's Big Beautiful Bill: Revolutionizing Real Estate Investing and Saving on Taxes
    Jul 9 2025

    Jason presents Travis King, CEO of Realm, a real estate investor collective, focusing on the "Big Beautiful Bill" and its positive implications for real estate investors. They discuss specific provisions like accelerated depreciation and the permanent grandfathering of Opportunity Zones, highlighting their role in attracting capital back into the market. They explore broader real estate trends, including interest rates, the "lock-in effect" on housing supply, and the importance of cost segregation for tax benefits. The conversation also touches on replacement costs, the inelasticity of housing supply, and the contrasting affordability dynamics in various markets, ultimately affirming a bullish outlook on real estate investment due to its unique tax advantages and tangible nature.

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    Key Takeaways:

    1:48 Welcome Travis King

    3:12 The Big Beautiful Bill and from an investment perspective

    6:35 Mortgage rates and the "Lock-in Effect"

    10:30 Bonus depreciation and cost segregation

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    14:48 Stimulating the market

    17:59 Regression to Replacement cost and the Inelasticity of the housing market

    21:29 Rents and the bottom of capitulation

    27:54 Bullish on the housing market

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  • 2320 FBF: Adapting to Change with Jared Diamond Pulitzer-Prize Winning Author of ‘Guns, Germs and Steel’ & ‘The World Until Yesterday’
    Jul 4 2025

    This Flashback Friday and 10th show is from episode 340, published last Sep 25, 2013.

    Renowned author, physiologist, evolutionary biologist and bio geographer, Dr. Jared Diamond, joins Jason Hartman for a discussion of his newest book, The World Until Yesterday. Dr. Diamond’s unique background has shaped his integrated version of human history. He posits that success – and failure – depends on how well societies adapt to their changing environment.

    Dr. Diamond is also a medical researcher and professor of physiology at the UCLA School of Medicine. His book "Guns, Germs and Steel" won a Pulitzer Prize and "The Third Chimpanzee" was a best-selling award winner. Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, Professor Diamond is a MacArthur Fellow who has published over 200 articles in Discover, Natural History, Nature and Geo magazines.

    In his books Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse (and the popular PBS and National Geographic documentaries they inspired), big-picture scholar Jared Diamond explores civilizations and why they all seem to fall. Now in his latest book, The World Until Yesterday, Diamond examines the traditional societies of New Guinea -- and discovers that modern civilization is only our latest solution to survival.

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  • 2319: Housing Market SHOCKER: Why It's NOT 2008 (The REAL Reason Home Sales are Down)
    Jul 2 2025

    Jason discussed concerns about Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell's leadership and the current state of the housing market, including analysis of historical relationships between housing supply and economic downturns. He explored various market conditions, including the impact of interest rates, inventory levels, and differences between single-family and multifamily housing markets. The discussion concluded with insights into current real estate market challenges and opportunities, along with information about available resources and contact options for listeners.

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    1:29 Call to investigate Jerome Powell

    4:50 No one is paying attention

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    21:26 Dramatic population increase

    25:00 Buyer sensitivity

    27:45 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: delinquency rates decrease in May

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  • 2318 FBF: Commodities Investing with Dr. Chris Kacher & Gil Morales Managing Directors of VirtueOfSelfishInvesting.com
    Jun 27 2025

    This is Flashback Friday is from episode275 published last August 29, 2012.

    While the last several years have seen huge losses for most investors in stocks, it has provided some valuable insights and allowed development of new concepts for stock investing. Jason Hartman talks with Dr. Chris Kacher and Gil Morales, principles and managing directors of Virtue of Selfish Investing, LLC and MoKa Investors, LLC, regarding their take on the markets, particularly commodities.

    Chris and Gil explain their investment philosophy and concepts born out of frustration with other market strategies failing, relating how they were able to get through the market crash and the continued instability. One of the concepts is the Pocket Pivot, a favorable entry point in a stock before it breaks out of the stock base. Gil and Chris also share their outlook on stocks, commodities, currencies and inflation.

    Dr. Chris Kacher is a stock investor and strategist with a background in the nuclear sciences. He is a co-founder of a stock advisory service, VirtueOfSelfishInvesting.com. Chris Kacher is a protégé of William O’Neil. He is known for achieving a total return of 18,241% during the period of 1996 to 2002 which he describes in his book Trade Like an O’Neil Disciple: How We Made 18,000% in the Stock Market co-authored with Gil Morales. Prior to his career as a stock trader, Dr. Chris Kacher pursued an education in the nuclear sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.

    He won a Charles D. Coryell Award while being undergraduate. As a graduate student he contributed to the confirmation of the existence of Seaborgium and a synthesis of an atom of Darmstadtium. He received a Doctor of Nuclear Chemistry degree in 1995. In 2009, Chris Kacher released a debut album of his piano compositions Teardrop Rain under a stage name of Christian Casher. He is a certified practitioner of neuro-linguistic programming and hypnosis.

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  • 2317: Beyond the Headlines: Edward Dowd Exposes Unseen Health & Economic Data
    Jun 25 2025

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    Jason and Edward Dowd discussed the book "Cause Unknown: The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths" and its focus on the increase in all-cause mortality during the pandemic, as well as the group life insurance policies provided to employees at fortune 500 companies and mid-sized companies. They also discussed the significant increase in excess mortality rates among the insured population, particularly in the age group of 5 to 44, and the potential link between vaccine mandates and the forced vaccination of employed individuals. The conversation also touched on the economic impact of the influx of immigrants, the potential for a recession in the US, and the deflationary effects of tariffs.

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    Key Takeaways:

    1:30 Carl Sagan predicts the future

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    Edward Dowd interview

    4:27 Meet Edward and the "Epidemic of of Sudden Deaths"

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    15:27 Lag time

    17:34 Infertility and Miscarriages

    19:49 Illegal immigration and the Economics from a demographic POV

    25:14 Trump and big bumps on the road

    28:54 Tariffs- inflationary or deflationary

    31:32 The FED and rate cuts

    33:30 Vaccine deaths and immunities

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  • 2316 FBF: The Financial Health of America’s Social Classes with Dr. H. Woody Brock Author of ‘American Gridlock’
    Jun 20 2025

    This Flashback Friday is from episode 283 published last October 26, 2012.

    Between 1980 and 2000, the wealth of our nation grew enormously. Interest rates dropped, dot com businesses grew, and then the housing market was rocketing. We then went into a tricky period where overall net worth grew a bit until the dot com crash; the middle class was sustained to some degree by the housing boom, and then dropped sharply with the housing crash. Dr. H. Woody Brock, President and Founder of Strategic Economic Decisions and author of American Gridlock, joins Jason Hartman for an in-depth explanation of the financial health of our nation across social classes.

    Dr. Brock discusses the nation overall and then breaks it down into the rich, the middle class, and the poor. The distribution of wealth have left the poor worse off and the rich very well off, as well as shrinking the middle class, but as Dr. Brock explains, looking at the distribution of consumption, the poor and middle classes are in a better position than when looking at the distribution of income.

    Dr. Brock also expounds on QE3, the Federal Reserve actions, bank reserves, de-leveraging, and more. He wraps up on the subject of his book, American Gridlock: Why the Right and Left are Both Wrong.

    Founder of Strategic Economic Decisions (SED), Inc., Dr. Horace “Woody” Brock specializes in applications of the modern Economics of Uncertainty (originally developed and championed by Kenneth J. Arrow of Stanford University) to forecasting and risk assessment in the international economy and its asset markets.

    Holder of five academic degrees, Dr. Brock earned his B.A., M.B.A., and M.S. (mathematics) from Harvard University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University (mathematical economics and political philosophy). He was elected an Andrew Mellon Foundation Bicentennial Fellow of the Aspen Institute in 1976. Dr. Brock studied under Kenneth J. Arrow, Professor of Economics, and John C. Harsanyi, Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, both winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics. Dr. Brock founded SED in 1985, and in doing so was sponsored by Fidelity, GE Capital, IBM Pension Fund, and twenty other institutions looking for a much deeper level of analysis of interest rates and the economy.

    In its research, SED has focused on apprehending ongoing structural changes in the economy and markets to help clients avoid the pitfalls of illegitimately extrapolating the past into the future. In this regard, Dr. Brock has worked closely with Professor Mordecai Kurz of Stanford University in developing the new theory of Rational Beliefs that is now replacing the classical theory of “Efficient Markets”. This new theory explains for the first time the way in which history rhymes but does not repeat itself.

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  • 2315: The Tax Advantage: Unlock Your Real Estate Riches with Scott Saunders
    Jun 18 2025

    Jason focuses on income property as the most tax-favored asset class in America, including discussion of tax-saving opportunities like the 1031 exchange for investors. He promotes the availability of free monthly masterclasses on jasonhartman.com/Wednesday for listeners to register and attend.

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    Jason then introduces Scott Saunders as they discuss the current favorable environment for 1031 exchanges, tax strategies for real estate investments, and various investment options including Delaware Statutory Trusts and Real Estate Investment Trusts. They explore the potential benefits of combining 1031 exchanges with Section 121 exclusions for primary residences and highlighted the importance of thorough research and understanding of risks when considering pooled investments. The conversation also touched on potential legislative changes, the growth of REITs in the 1031 market, and the significance of using qualified intermediaries for successful exchanges.

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    Key Takeaways:

    Jason's editorial

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    Scott Saunders interview

    Disclaimer: Scott Saunders is not a lawyer or tax advisor. Please check with your tax professional for all tax related advice.

    2:43 1031 Exchange and the beauty of having more choices

    7:57 Section 121

    9:58 Split Treatment Transaction

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    16:42 Percentage of home office deductions

    19:42 Converting one property to 32, combining 121 + 1031

    23:00 REIT: Going neutral and passive with section 721

    33:26 Trump and opportunity zones

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