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The Jesse Mecham Show

327 - A Blind Trust

The Jesse Mecham Show

YNAB

Kids & Family, Education

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

A plea for blind trusts for the everyman.

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0:00.0

Hello, Wienavers. My name is Jesse Meekham. This is podcast number

0:07.0

327 for Wienab, where we teach you four rules to help you stop living

0:10.7

paycheck to paycheck, get out of debt and save more money.

0:15.3

Save more money is the name of the game if you want to retire at any point.

0:22.4

And when you throw your money in the market you have these news people or well-intentioned

0:29.8

friends that talk about it constantly. As soon as you start putting meaningful money in the

0:34.8

market or even when you just first start you're so the novelty is there and so you're

0:38.5

pretty amped up on the idea and you follow it. And you know how the president has to set up a blind trust?

0:45.0

I don't know if you guys are familiar with that where the president in order to not have a conflict of interest and please don't I'm not making any commentary at all about current

0:54.6

things I just I've heard this and found it intriguing but the president in order to

0:58.8

avoid a conflict of interest needs to have things set up in a blind trust to where they wouldn't be

1:05.7

motivated to improve their position financially because they don't really know

1:10.1

what their money is doing or where it is and then they can just focus on

1:14.1

being the best president they can be. I like that idea. I think you should set up

1:19.0

your own blind trust and you need to start writing it down on paper to figure out how it would work.

1:24.6

But here are a few ideas.

1:27.6

One, you could, this is, I mean I'm just going to throw, like I'm brainstorming here, I didn't you know I didn't write this I'm not reading from a piece of paper

1:35.5

this is just I'm literally going from the hip on this not literally figuratively I mess that up sometimes

1:40.8

figuratively going from the hip like a gun slinger so what we've got

1:45.0

here is this idea of a blind trust why because when you get in and out of the market you

1:50.1

it costs you money if you miss the, I don't know, few days of a decade of returns, it's amazing how much of the returns total for that decade you have missed. If you are trying to time the market

2:04.7

you are doing it incorrectly and ineffectively and unless you are doing this full time and you are in the top

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