Bad actors will use AI to disrupt the financial system, transportation networks, and utilities. We should prepare now for this inevitability. We share how in this episode. We also explain why the bull market in gold will likely continue.

Topics covered include:

• Why the OpenAI agentic AI breach is so disturbing
• How do we prepare for cyberattacks
• Why gold should be one of the assets we hold apart from the financial system
• How the historical relationship between gold and real interest rates has broken down
• To what extent are central banks selling dollars to buy gold
• How gold ETF flows influence the gold price

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Episode 564 Slide Deck with Charts

Gold's Run Isn't Yet Done - Bhanu Baweja - Financial Times

Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident

Are Central Banks Moving Out of Dollar Assets? - Linda S. Goldberg, Oliver Hannaoui, and Sneha Parthasarathy - Federal Reserve Bank of New York

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563: Why Interest Rates Keep Rising and What to Do About It

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The national debt exceeds $40 trillion, U.S. long-term Treasury yields are at 19-year highs, the U.S. Treasury Department is intervening in currency and bond markets. We unpack it all in this episode and show you how to position your investment portfolio to lock in higher yields and protect yourself from falling bond prices.

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Episode 563 Slide Deck

Debt to the Penny - U.S. Treasury

Historical debt and budget tables - U.S. White House

Average U.S. national debt interest rate - U.S. Treasury

Treasury Announces Increased Sizes of Nominal Long-End Liquidity Support Buybacks Beginning September 9 - U.S Treasury

America’s Risky Debt: What Markets See That Policymakers Don’t - Hanno Lustig

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525: No More AAA – What the U.S. Debt Downgrade Means for Investors

463: How to Lock in Higher Yields

464: More Ways to Lock in Higher Yields

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What are the steps to simplify your portfolio, given that it is likely spread across multiple accounts? We focus particularly on retirees, who have to weigh additional considerations like withdrawals, Roth conversions, and required minimum distributions.

We also explore which areas of the stock and bond markets are attractive right now as you seek to simplify and/or rebalance your portfolio.

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A Complete Guide to Investing in I Bonds and TIPS (2026)

550: Asset Location: Where You Invest, Where You Live, What You Can Access

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We explore the expected size of AI-related debt, which vehicles hold it, what could go wrong, and how to protect yourself.

Topics covered include:

• How AI capex boom compares to other large booms and busts
• What fixed income vehicles hold AI-linked debt
• What mechanisms are being used to transfer AI-debt risk.
• How circular finance is contributing to the AI infrastructure buildout
• What could go wrong with the AI infrastructure buildout that could lead to losses on AI-related debt
• How to tell what exposure you have to AI debt

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AI debt slide deck used for episode

RBC Weighs $2 Billion Risk Transfer to Hedge Data Center-Linked Loans by Esteban Duarte and Paula Sambo—Bloomberg

Hyperscalers Tap External Financing as AI Capex Outruns Cash Flow—FactSet Insight

What History Tells Us About The AI Investment Boom by Larry Swedroe—Financial Advisor

Goldman Sachs Warns on AI’s Debt Tsunami — Is This the End of the AI Boom? by Rich Duprey—Yahoo! Finance

Progress and peril by Pablo Hernández de Cos—BIS

The Opportunities and Risks AI Presents for the Economy and Financial System by Governor Lisa D. Cook—The Federal Reserve

Financial Stability Report by The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System—The Federal Reserve

Financing the AI infrastructure boom: on- and off-balance sheet borrowing by Egemen Eren, Ingomar Krohn and Karamfil Todorov—BIS

How AI debt financing impacts duration supply and interest rates by Hugo De Vere, Srini Ramaswamy and Seth Searls—Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

US Life Insurers Held $807 Billion of Hard-to-Sell Credit by Alexandre Rajbhandari—Bloomberg

Insurers are funding AI infrastructure – NAIC wants to know if the ratings hold up by Paul Lucas—Insurance Business

US Corporate Bonds Statistics—sifma

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How inflation numbers are manipulated to appear lower. How to change your mindset about inflation to get ahead of it.

Topics covered include:

• How Inflation (PCE) Calculations Are Changing
• Why the CPE Changes Are Suspicious
• The Biggest Changes Ever to Inflation Calculations
• What Causes Inflation
• AI Buildout Is Boosting Inflation
• How Rising Income Can Overcome Inflation
• Inflation Is Currency Debasement
• Most Things Get Cheaper and Better Over Time
• Personal Inflation Rate and Retirement
• We Can Beat Inflation by Improving Our Skills
• Inflation Manipulation vs Inflation Fabrication
• How to Outsmart Inflation

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Preview of the 2026 Annual Update of the National Economic Accounts—BEA

The Inflation Outlook by Governor Stephen I. Miran—U.S. Federal Reserve

Toward A More Accurate Measure Of The Cost Of Living by The Advisory Commission To Study The Consumer Price Index —SSA

A Complete Guide to Understanding and Protecting Against Inflation by David Stein—Money for the Rest of Us

Live Retirement Portfolio Cohort—Money for the Rest of Us

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475: Inflation’s Illusion: Debunking the Normalcy of Currency Debasement

429: Which Inflation Protection Strategies Worked and Which Didn’t? 

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David shares nine lessons a listener followed to become a millionaire.

Topics covered include:

• The benefit of underspending on housing
• What rate of return and how much would you need to save to grow a portfolio to one million dollars
• Why historical studies of the S&P 500 returns are misleading
• David's recent portfolio mistake

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SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI are all going public. Why now? And what will their weight be in index funds? What other U.S. ETF options are there if you don't want to have such a high concentration in stocks tied to AI. And finally, if you do buy SpaceX, what would need to happen to earn a reasonable return on your investment?

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Space Exploration Technologies Corp. Form S-1 Registration Statment Under the Securities Act of 1933—SEC

Elon Musk Is Dropping a Boulder in a Kiddie Pool by Matteo Wong—The Atlantic

Passive Aggressive: The Risks of Passive Investing Dominance by Chris Brightman and Campbell R. Harvey—SSRN

Passive Investing and Market Quality by Philipp Höfler, Christian Schlag, and Maik Schmeling—SSRN

Investments Mentioned

iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV)

Tema S&P 500 Historical Weight ETF Strategy (DSPY)

Defiance Large Cap ex-Mag 7 (XMAG)

Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight (RSP)

Invesco FTSE RAFI US 1000 (PRF)

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We explore the free dividend fallacy and how it applies to option income strategies. We break down the return drivers of covered call ETFs and examine the long-term performance record and volatility. Finally, we explain why it's better to own a single stock than a single-stock covered call ETF, such as MSTY, NVDY, or TSLY, offered by YieldMax.

Show Notes

The Dividend Disconnect - Samuel M. Hartzmark and David H. Solomon

Sam Hartzmark on Dividends - Meb Faber Research

The New American Hustle: Dividends Over Day Jobs - Denitsa Tsekova and Vildana Hajric - Bloomberg

Covered Calls Uncovered - Roni Israelov and Lars N. Nielsen - Financial Analysts Journal

Volatility Risk Premiums Embedded in Individual Equity Options: Some New Insights - Nikunj Kapadia and Gurdip singh Bakshi

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Investment Mentioned

Invesco S&P 500 BuyWrite ETF (PBP)

JPMorgan Equity Premium Income ETF (JEPI)

WisdomTree Equity Premium Income Fund (WTPI)

YieldMax TSLA Option Income Strategy ETF (TSLY)

Tesla (TSLA)

YieldMax NVDA Option Income Strategy ETF (NVDY)

NVIDIA (NVDA )

YieldMax MSTR Option Income Strategy ETF (MSTY)

Strategy (MSTR)

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Why we have to navigate investing, business, and life with a compass rather than a GPS. David also provides an update on what he has learned from hosting live portfolio cohorts and letting AI analyze his portfolio trades over the past 12 years.

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Almost Reckless by Amy Smilovic—Penguin Random House

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I share five business practices that have carried me through asset bubbles, financial crises, business pivots, and now the rise of AI.

Topics covered include:

• Recommended note-taking app and practices
• Recommended periodicals
• How to get better ideas
• Why we need to understand the probabilities when pursuing a new course
• The latest insights on AI, prediction markets, and other topics

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Researchers Asked LLMs for Strategic Advice. They Got “Trendslop” in Return. By Angelo Romasanta, Llewellyn D.W. Thomas and Natalia Levina—Harvard Business Review

Paul Kedrosky

Gregor Macdonald - Cold Eye Earth

Prediction Market Accuracy: Crowd Wisdom or Informed Minority? By Roberto Gomez Cram, Yunhan Guo, Theis Ingerslev Jensen, and Howard Kung

U.S. Soldier Charged With Using Classified Information To Profit From Prediction Market Bets—Office of Public Affairs, U.S. Department of Justice

64% of business books are profitable. That’s the bottom line from our study of Business Book ROI.—Josh Bernoff

Libsyn Statistics, visualized—Livewire Labs

The Big Bang: A.I. Has Created a Code Overload By Mike Isaac and Erin Griffith—The New York Times

High earners race ahead on AI as workplace divide widens By Madhumita Murgia and John Burn-Murdoch—Financial Times

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