If the dollars in your account keep rising but buy you less each year, your measuring stick is lying to you. In this episode, we dig into the "denominator problem" of money—how debasement quietly raises the number of units required to buy the same home, car, or grocery basket—and map a framework for protecting real purchasing power when volatility strikes. We're joined by returning guest Aaron Olson to pressure-test a debasement-ready portfolio across five pillars: high-quality residential r...
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If the dollars in your account keep rising but buy you less each year, your measuring stick is lying to you. In this episode, we dig into the "denominator problem" of money—how debasement quietly raises the number of units required to buy the same home, car, or grocery basket—and map a framework for protecting real purchasing power when volatility strikes. We're joined by returning guest Aaron Olson to pressure-test a debasement-ready portfolio across five pillars: high-quality residential r...
If risk only converts, what are you converting it into?
Tall Oaks Podcast
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If risk only converts, what are you converting it into?
Markets don’t erase risk—they convert it. We take that idea and rebuild a portfolio playbook for a debasement era, where traditional bonds feel shaky, equities look priced for exogenous gains, and investors are piling into gold, Bitcoin, and “boomer candy” buffered ETFs. We unpack what each tool actually does: the three jobs bonds used to do, why gold protects purchasing power but can’t fund groceries, how Bitcoin’s inelastic supply plus ETF flows can drive hyperbolic moves, and where structu...
Tall Oaks Podcast
If the dollars in your account keep rising but buy you less each year, your measuring stick is lying to you. In this episode, we dig into the "denominator problem" of money—how debasement quietly raises the number of units required to buy the same home, car, or grocery basket—and map a framework for protecting real purchasing power when volatility strikes. We're joined by returning guest Aaron Olson to pressure-test a debasement-ready portfolio across five pillars: high-quality residential r...
