For a second, I thought maybe he was engaging in the popular tax avoidance strategy where you keep your investments in stocks, and then rather than sell them for liquid cash and pay capital gains tax, you take out low rate, interest-only loans using the value of the stock as collateral. It’s the sort of bullshit loophole available to the billionaire class to avoid paying their share of tax…
…but no, guy’s just leveraged up to his eyeballs in real estate and gold-buggery, and has the audacity to claim to be a finance guru.
Doesn’t believe in fiat currencies because they’re not real, but is all in on Bitcoin.
Old man going senile.
You may have those reversed. BTC has a computational limit but countries can print as many bills as they like.
He’s the most huckstery of the major personal finance canon authors. And his book is pretty meh in comparison to like The Simple Path to Wealth or even I Will Teach You To Be Rich (which I have my own problems with). I feel like he just got in at the right time to go viral, he shouldn’t be famous based on the book itself.
iTT: People who think bankers got held accountable in 2008
I don’t get why people idolize him so much. Paying to go to seminars and such. Yes buy assets not liabilities, not complicated but he regularly pushes over leveraging yourself and working in the grey area of financial independence. Him and Ramsey provide good advice on targeted subjects but going all in and following these idols will lead to ruin for most.
*poor dad