Jason Hartman talks with Peter Shankman, author of Faster Than Normal: Turbocharge Your Focus, Productivity, and Success with the Secrets of the ADHD Brain, about how people with ADHD can use it to their advantage, what actions people need to take in order to be successful in their ventures, how to figure out what your audience wants, and when to ignore your audience.

Key Takeaways:

[3:08] How is ADHD a benefit?

[5:35] It's important to set up your life in a way that doesn't allow you to get derailed, and the 4 undeniable ADHD life rules

[8:39] You can lead the life you want, you just have to be willing to make the trade offs

[12:47] Your audience will tell you what they want and where they are, if you're willing to listen

[14:42] The only time you want to ignore what your audience is saying they want is when you're a part of a big market disruptor

Website:

www.ShankMinds.com

www.FasterThanNormal.com

Jason wraps up his interview with Macro Watch's Richard Duncan. The two tackle the topic of rising interest rates, better uses for going into further debt than giving it to tax reform, how the Fed will react to a tanking stock market, and what we can expect to see over the next few years.

Key Takeaways:

[00:45] What people don't realize about interest rates

"People buy houses on a payment, not a price"

[1:56] What the Fed will do if the market drops 10% and what else will happen if it drops 20%

[5:15] What Richard wishes the government had done with the $1 trillion in new deficits that will occur from the new tax reform

[9:50] Why Richard thinks the government can invest as wisely as private companies

[14:16] What are the next few years going to look like?

[16:49] People need to get very familiar with quantitative tightening

Websites:

www.RichardDuncanEconomics.com
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Jason Hartman welcomes Richard Duncan back to the show to discuss what's going on with fiscal policy and interest rates right now. In the first half of the interview Richard talks about how the trade imbalance with China has enriched the nation and brought millions out of poverty, as well as how the general public has no idea how much the Fed is actually tightening, and how that will impact interest rates.

Key Takeaways:

[3:04] Jason's theory on asset inflation and what it means if the millennials don't join the investor class like the baby boomers did

[5:41] Why the future from an Asian perspective is much brighter than from a US perspective

[7:50] Who's gotten the better end of the China/US trade imbalance?

[13:27] Richard believes the Fed is tightening more than people are understanding

[17:36] The Fed has been destroying at least $10 billion a month since October 2017 and it's going to get bigger

[20:11] The Fed will have destroyed $1 trillion by the end of 2019 if they follow through on their announced plan

[22:20] Is the Fed likely to make a course correction if rates go too high?

Websites:

www.RichardDuncanEconomics.com
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Jason Hartman talks with Jason van den Brand, CEO & Co-Founder at Lenda, an online mortgage platform. The two of them discuss the current status of the mortgage market, what kind of easing or tightening we might see in the near future, how Lenda is able to cut fees in the lending process, how to get a rate quote, and more.

Key Takeaways:

[1:24] What is Lenda?

[4:07] What Lenda is expecting to happen in the mortgage market this coming year

[8:38] The loans that are available through Lenda

[13:23] What you need to do to get a rate quote

[16:40] Is mortgage regulation going to loosen in the near future?

[19:06] Does Lenda have the same fees as conventional lenders or do they differ?

Website:

www.Lenda.com