Video Podcast

#59 – The Four Pillars of a Micropreneurs, by Jason Hartman

The path of a micropreneur is one with unique attributes and challenges.  With a business that you operate yourself, it may seem that resources for accomplishing your goals are severely limited.  However, it is quite possible to leverage business relationships so that you are able to take advantage of vast resources and knowledge.  By operating [...]

#58 – The Faith Based Rally Continues, by Jason Hartman

The stock market is continuing its rally from market lows early in 2009.  To many free market economists, the stock market is seen as a harbinger of sentiment concerning the future of economic growth.  This has created jubilation on the part of many journalists and investment advisors, based on the belief that current stock market [...]

#57 – Designing Your Income, by Jason Hartman

Most of us are familiar with the notion of income and expenses, gross and net, profit and loss.  These terms frequently work themselves into conversations about our financial wellbeing when we describe our income as X or our ‘take home’ as Y.  However, there is a somewhat more complex understanding that makes income and expenditures [...]

#57 – The Barbell Strategy of Investing

The “Barbell” strategy of investing

In the marketplace of ideas, there is no shortage of strategies for investing to produce superior returns. These range from the ‘crackpot’ infomercials schemes that infest early morning television to people that are afraid of the stock market altogether, and also include the research of Nobel laureate economists. The [...]

#56 – Re-Inflating the Debt Bubble

Re-Inflating the Debt Bubble

Reading the news has never been the best way to inspire optimism. This phenomenon has never been more true than it is today for financially astute people that are aware of causes and consequences. In a recent press conference, the US President was touting a new blitz of government programs [...]

#55 – Packaging Your Commodities

Packaging your Commodities: Commodity Investing through Residential Real Estate

For most people, it is difficult to read through a financial newspaper or watch late night television without seeing repeated (possibly obnoxious) exhortations to invest in commodities such as gold or silver. The logic of these advertisements is frequently sound, since it is certainly true that [...]

#54 – Income Property Investment Myths

Income Property Investment Myths

Why aren’t more people investing in income properties when it’s the most lucrative, safest choice in history? Good question. Probably because people would rather watch television than improve their financial condition. Sure, everybody says they want to get rich but what are they actually doing about it besides [...]

#53 – Fiscally Fit Financial Quiz

Fiscally Fit: A check-up for your financial fitness

What happens to home values when the replacement costs increase?

The go up like a rocket

They go down because nobody can afford to build

They are pulled toward the cost of new construction

They don’t change . . . construction costs don’t matter

What is happening to the economy now that the [...]

#52 – Double Dip Recession

Double Dip Recession
The recent financial news has been abuzz with exhortations over the anticipation of an end to the recent financial calamity. The stock market has already discounted this optimism into its valuation, as current market values represent a multiple of forecasted earnings per share well in excess of historical trends. The conventional [...]

#51 – Creating Wealth Show Stars

Talking with the Stars . . . Jason’s marquee guests on the Creating Wealth Show

In the last few months, Jason has had some big name guests on the Creating Wealth Show. Some of Jason’s recent guests of note are Pat Buchannan, Robert Kiyosaki, and Catherine Austin Fitts.

Pat Buchannan is well known in the United [...]

#50 – The Creating Wealth Show 114

Economic deliberation with Britain’s financial author and Journalist of the Year – Gillian Tett.
Jason Hartman’s Creating wealth show has had a wide variety of notable guests over the last few months. One of Jason’s recent guests was Gillian Tett, a British journalist, whose recent book Fool’s Gold confronts the current banking and financial crisis. [...]

#49 – San Antonio, TX – Platinum Properties Investor Network Analysis

In this video, discover the properties investment opportunities available in San Antonio, TX.  Jason Hartman’s Platinum Properties Investor Network provides analysis of the demographics, real estate market and business climate. http://JasonHartman.com http://CreatingWealthPodcast.com

#48 – Orlando, FL – Platinum Properties Investor Network Analysis

In this video, discover the properties investment opportunities available in Orlando, FL.  Jason Hartman’s Platinum Properties Investor Network provides analysis of the demographics, real estate market and business climate. http://JasonHartman.com http://CreatingWealthPodcast.com

#47 – Kansas City, MO – Platinum Properties Investor Network Analysis

In this video, discover the properties investment opportunities available in Kansas City, MO.  Jason Hartman’s Platinum Properties Investor Network provides analysis of the demographics, real estate market and business climate. http://JasonHartman.com http://CreatingWealthPodcast.com

#46 – Houston, TX – Platinum Properties Investor Network Analysis

In this video, discover the properties investment opportunities available in Houston, TX.  Jason Hartman’s Platinum Properties Investor Network provides analysis of the demographics, real estate market and business climate. http://JasonHartman.com http://CreatingWealthPodcast.com

#45 – Denver, CO – Platinum Properties Investor Network Analysis

In this video, discover the properties investment opportunities available in Denver, CO.  Jason Hartman’s Platinum Properties Investor Network provides analysis of the demographics, real estate market and business climate. http://JasonHartman.com http://CreatingWealthPodcast.com

#44 – Charlotte, NC – Platinum Properties Investor Network Analysis

In this video, discover the properties investment opportunities available in Charlotte, NC. Jason Hartman’s Platinum Properties Investor Network provides analysis of the demographics, real estate market and business climate. http://JasonHartman.com http://CreatingWealthPodcast.com

#43 – Biloxi, MS – Platinum Properties Investor Network Analysis

In this video, discover the properties investment opportunities available in Biloxi, MS.  Jason Hartman’s Platinum Properties Investor Network provides analysis of the demographics, real estate market and business climate. http://JasonHartman.com http://CreatingWealthPodcast.com

#42 – Austin, TX – Platinum Properties Investor Network Analysis

In this video, discover the properties investment opportunities available in Austin, TX.  Jason Hartman’s Platinum Properties Investor Network provides analysis of the demographics, real estate market and business climate. http://JasonHartman.com http://CreatingWealthPodcast.com

#41 – Platinum Properties Performance Projections

Property Highlights:
- Columbia, SC
- 5 bedroom University of South Carolina student housing
- FIRST year lease GUARANTEED!
- Total ROI with tax savings – 20%
This 5 bedroom, 5 bathroom student housing facility is a great deal you do not want to miss. Located in a private, gated community of Craftsman-style cottages, these properties are the very best [...]

#40 – The Bottom Line: Current Investment Outlook

The Bottom Line: Current Investment Outlook
As with all difficult times, it can be very hard to see glimmers of light in the midst of economic freefall. With the current trajectory of job losses, economic contraction, and government intervention into the economy, there are many people who are on the verge of giving up hope [...]

#39 – What’s In A Deal? Pro-Forma Analysis

What’s In a Deal? – Pro-Forma Analysis of Platinum’s Hottest Properties
One of the greatest services that Platinum Properties offers (for free) is to deliver Pro-Forma analysis of pre-screened real estate deals. These Pro-Forma summaries are constructed using the Property Tracker software suite, and communicate a wealth of useful information about the deal in question. [...]

#38 – The Creating Wealth Show #105

The Creating Wealth Show #105:
Propelling investment success using econometrics and
competitive analytics

In the one hundred and fifth episode of Jason’s extremely popular Creating Wealth show, he interviews David Savlowitz, the head of Competitive Analytics (CA), a niche full-service market intelligence firm. In this show, David explains the way that his firm uses a multiplicity of [...]

#37 – The Business of Life: Winners Take Action

The Business of Life
By Douglas J. Utberg, MBA
Winners Take Action
The world that we live in is not short on information. In fact, the preponderance of information that we are constantly bombarded with can create a state of constant confusion that scares us into inaction. In the martial arts, this phenomenon is referred [...]

#36 – Patrolling the Plastic / Non-Dollar Based Assets, Jason Hartman

Patrolling the Plastic: Keeping Track of the Consumer Credit Market (From the Chart Store Weekly Chart Blog for the week ending July 10, 2009)
Analysis of the total consumer credit outstanding shows that the last 10 years, the total consumer debt outstanding as a percentage of disposable personal income has rounded the hump from its all-time [...]

#35 – Fiscally Fit Quiz, Jason Hartman

Fiscally Fit: A Check-Up for Your Financial Fitness

1. What is the best way to avoid future market bubbles?
a. Gold . . . lots and lots of gold.
b. A survival bunker isolated on 30 acres in the woods, surrounded by barbed wire.
c. By directly controlling universally needed assets.
d. By only investing with the “good” fund manager.

2. [...]

#34 – Cash Flow in Indianapolis, Jason Hartman

At the end of 2008, Sara informed me about an REO property in Indianapolis that was built in 2004, and available from the bank for a very attractive price. The only hitch was that the property needed some rehab and repairs. (Go figure – owners who get foreclosed on don’t always take the [...]

#33 – We Are Out Of Money Now, Jason Hartman

We don’t mean to scare you – well, actually we do. The words above were spoken by President Obama at a recent press conference. Ouch. Does that mean the U.S. economy is a car with a bone-dry gasoline tank still rolling slightly from 233 years of inertia?
Maybe?
A better analogy might be the economy [...]

#32 – Too Big To Fail, Jason Hartman

Within the lexicon of business terminology, there is a popular phrase entitled “too big to fail” that is frequently used to describe large industry players that are kept afloat by the government when they are faced with financial ruin. The theory behind these bailout initiatives is that liquidating a major industry player will result [...]

#31 – Side-Step the Bubble Machine, Jason Hartman

A recent article published by Matt Tiabbi in Rolling Stone magazine articulated the role that Goldman Sachs is believed to have played in market manipulations since the Great Depression. The thesis of this article is that Goldman Sachs places itself in the middle of speculative bubbles by selling financial instruments that it knows are [...]