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Investing in Real Estate with Clayton Morris | Investing for Beginners

1184: Trump Just Changed 401(k)s Forever - Episode 1184

Investing in Real Estate with Clayton Morris | Investing for Beginners

Clayton Morris

Investing, How To, News, Education, Business, Business News

4.11.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

President Trump recently signed an executive order making it easier for investors to use their 401(k) to invest in alternative assets like crypto and real estate. On today’s show, we’re going to unpack the details of this change and what it means for you. 

Today’s guest, Mat Sorensen is the Founder and CEO of Directed IRA, a wealth attorney, and entrepreneur. Mat is back for a conversation on the latest changes made to retirement plans and how you can use them to your advantage. Understanding your options when it comes to wealth building is key, and Mat’s insights are incredibly useful.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Well, why has this gotten almost no media coverage at all?

0:08.5

President Trump, the Trump administration, actively working to basically revolutionize our retirement accounts and how we can invest for our future.

0:18.0

For a long time, your 401k was sort of a set-it-and-forget-it plan. You hope that

0:22.2

you pin all of your future dreams on the 401K. We know what a disaster that has been.

0:28.9

So President Trump is actively working on really revolutionizing our retirement accounts.

0:33.9

We wanted to bring in my old friend Matt Sorensen, he's the CEO of directed IRA. He's also

0:38.3

an attorney. I've been working with Matt for many years. And I have to say there's no one out there

0:42.6

that understands retirement planning and how to actually invest for your retirement better than Matt.

0:48.8

So Matt and I go back many, many, many years. So Matt, welcome to the show. Good to see you.

0:53.8

Yeah, thanks,

0:54.3

Clayton for being on. And thanks for talking about this because there's like $44 trillion in

0:59.0

U.S. retirement accounts. And what Trump is doing is changing the game big time. Like, this is a

1:05.6

huge change of what you can do with your retirement account, how you can grow and build wealth.

1:10.7

And so I want to

1:12.3

make sure we got on here and talked about this. But I was actually very excited about this and think

1:16.4

Trump has like nailed it, quite honestly. There's still work to be done. But I'm super excited about

1:21.6

this because it's going to get people options. Before we get into what Trump has done, let's talk

1:26.3

about where things have sat for so many years.

1:28.7

Can you maybe just talk about that landscape?

1:30.7

I kind of touched on how much of a failure of the 401K has been.

1:35.0

Yeah, I mean, the 401K has got a lot of money in it, but it's had a lot of restrictions on what you can't do with it.

1:41.5

And so right now, most people that have a 401k, trillions of dollars that are

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