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🗓️ 9 November 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Real Estate Strategies podcast, where we host in-depth conversations on everything real estate with the industry's biggest movers and shakers. |
0:11.3 | I'm your host, Ken McElroy, joined by my co-host, Daniel. |
0:15.4 | Let's get right into this episode. |
0:17.7 | Hey, everybody's Ken and Daniel. |
0:19.0 | Hello. |
0:19.6 | And we're here with George Gammon, straight from |
0:22.8 | Columbia, of all places. We were in town for the collective. That was fun, good weekend. |
0:27.7 | The country. That's right, the country of Columbia. You look a little tired when you got in. |
0:34.2 | Yeah, it's a 14-hour journey. That's all. Yeah, usually if you, just as the crow flies, |
0:39.2 | it only would have been like a, I don't know, like a five-hour flight. We just got to go through |
0:43.4 | Miami and I couldn't get a connecting flight so the seven-hour layover and that turns it. Well, |
0:50.1 | welcome back to the U.S. where we have high interest rates and a strong dollar. Yeah. |
0:55.2 | And high inflation. That's a high dollar. Yeah. And high inflation. |
0:57.1 | Had high inflation. That's right. I want to chat about that. One of the things that you told me yesterday, which I thought was very interesting, is that you were getting paid in U.S. or you make a lot of money in U.S. dollars, and then you're paying your salaries in Columbia. |
1:12.0 | Almost all my expenses. |
1:13.1 | Yeah. And I thought that was an interesting perspective. Can you shout a little bit about that |
1:17.6 | and how the difference of what's going on in our economy right now with these Fed increases |
1:21.5 | and high inflation? Yeah. Most people look at this from a standpoint of their expenses being denominated in U.S. dollars. |
1:29.9 | So they look at the 10-year treasury as an example, and they say, oh, my gosh, who would buy that at 4% when the CPI is at 8%? |
1:38.7 | Because you're guaranteed to lose 4% per year in purchasing power. |
1:42.9 | So no one would buy the long end of the curve. |
1:45.0 | Right. |
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