You can afford anything but not everything.

Every decision that you make is a trade-off against something else and that doesn't just

apply to your money.

That applies to your time, your focus, your energy, your attention.

It applies to anything in your life that's a scarce or limited resource.

That leads to two questions.

Number one, what matters most to you?

And number two, how do you align your day-to-day decisions to reflect that?

Answering these two questions is a lifetime practice and that is what this podcast is

here to explore.

My name is Paula Pant, I'm the host of the Afford Anything Podcast and today David Stein

joins us to talk about 10 questions that you should ask yourself before buying an investment.

David Stein was the chief investment strategist and chief portfolio strategist at Fund Evaluation

Group which was a $70 billion investment advisory firm.

During his time there, he co-led a 21-person research group.

He now hosts a podcast about investing called Money for the Rest of Us.

This is his second time on the Afford Anything Podcast.

He was also our guest on episode 95 and he has recently published a book called Money

for the Rest of Us in which he outlines 10 questions that a person should ask themselves

before they buy a new type of investment.

So if you're thinking about going into dividend investing or starting international investing

or picking up shares of individual stocks like Tesla or Nike or Apple.

...