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The James Altucher Show

661 - Quick Basic Economic Lessons by James Altucher

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Society & Culture, Talk Radio, Writer, Philosophy, Comedy, Chess, How To, Entrepreneurship, Jay, James, The James Altucher Show, Altucher, Author, Jay Yow, Education, Jay The Engineer, Business, James Altucher

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

To create a Side Hustle Business, you need to know and understand the basic economic principles. In this episode, I gave quick basic economic lessons on Warren Buffet, housings, relationship, student loan, and gold vs bitcoin! I hope this episode helps you understand the basic economy. If you have any question or feedback, tweet @jaltucher I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to “The James Altucher Show” and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook Linkedin

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0:00.0

This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

0:06.8

This is the James Altiger Show.

0:13.6

Today we're going to do a review of basic economics, not in some boring way, but there's

0:19.2

some parts of economics concepts that are interesting to learn and practical and beneficial.

0:27.0

If you're going to do a side hustle, any of the side hustles that we've discussed over

0:29.9

the past few months, it's good to know some concepts of basic economics.

0:33.8

I'm going to give, here's my idealist for the day.

0:36.4

I'm holding up my waiter's pad and I'm going to give maybe 10 quick lessons from economics

0:42.7

on everything, from Warren Buffett, the economics of dating, the Paris Accord, to the velocity

0:48.7

of money and how that's affecting cities, Bitcoin versus gold and a bunch of other topics.

0:55.5

If you're ready, here we go.

0:57.8

First off, this is an interesting topic.

0:59.8

I could probably just do a whole podcast just on this, but lesson number one, why is Warren

1:04.6

Buffett rich?

1:06.2

A lot of people think Warren Buffett is rich because he's a great investor and that's definitely

1:11.8

true.

1:12.8

But let's look at actually how Warren Buffett got rich.

1:15.6

We're going to learn several interesting business models very quickly.

1:20.0

The first is Warren Buffett when he was young in the 1950s.

1:24.3

He started one of the first hedge funds.

1:27.2

Here's what a hedge fund is.

1:29.0

Investors invest in a hedge fund, the hedge fund manager, in this case, Warren Buffett

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