Kerry Lutz's--Financial Survival Network

Summary:
While all asset classes are experiencing volatility, the self storage sector of real estate has a lot of promise. Drew Dolan comes on the show to discuss some of the advantages of investing in self storage. As the Principal and Fund Manager of DXD Capital, he is extremely knowledgable on this sector, and explains how it has flourished in recently years. If you want to know more about self storage and the logic behind investing in it, be sure to tune in to this episode.

Highlights:
-Real estate is up in the air, and virtually every asset class is going through tremendous volatility
-Self storage is a sector of real estate that may become a beneficiary of this uncertainty
-It’s extremely efficient from an operational standpoint
-Picking location matters the most in self storage, and you can look at a lot of data before making investment decisions
-Even though interest rates and constructions costs are up, there are still many great deals available in self storage
-In development, it’s riskier and requires more effort
-In the last fifteen years, the utilization of self storage has doubled
-The pandemic was good for self storage; there were a lot of new users

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Summary:
With the dollar going higher and precious metals going lower, the markets are crazy. Here to analyze this is Bob Hoye, who uses historical trends in financial markets to evaluate what is happening in the contemporary economy. The current patterns within precious metals and interest rates are indicative of a great financial bubble. Tune in to hear Bob’s perspective, and data driven predictions on what’s to come.

Highlights:
-The markets are crazy; the dollar is going higher and precious metals are going lower
-Bob has looked at extensive history on financial markets, and over time we’ve seen patterns with financial bubbles
-With the conclusion of a great bubble, copper’s real price goes up and gold’s real price goes down
-In July 2020, the precious metals sector got completely overbought
-In a financial bubble, gold deflated goes down; then it stabilizes and goes up
-Bob has been specifically looking at the rise of gold’s real price in relation to the CPI
-If you’re in the mining business, get out of base metals and into the gold business
-Gold, base metals, and real long interest rates have done what they are supposed to—indicating that the bubble is over
-The Fed has tried to inflate in previous crashes
-The dollar is going to keep going up
-In China, base metal mining and gold mining have soared
-High prices for metals build capacity

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