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Rule Breaker Investing

May 2023 Mailbag: 100...And Two Hills

Rule Breaker Investing

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🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

What the heck is a Debt Ceiling anyway? Are we learning the wrong lessons from our government's fiscal policies? Maybe we should just focus on other stuff, like braving the stock market, simplifying life, and polishing up our digital brains. All that and a couple of Hills on this month's mailbag.

  • (00:08:53) Daring to Invest
  • (00:13:37) Cognitive Drag and your Digital Brain
  • (00:17:39) Investing Early and the Value of a College Degree
  • (00:31:24) Debt Ceiling and Leverage
  • (00:39:01) Government Debt vs. Personal Debt
  • (00:58:00) The First Hill: A Fond Farewell
  • (01:09:30) The Second Hill: A Long and Foolish Life

Host: David Gardner
Guests: Jeff Fischer, Tom King, Jason Moser, Chris Hill
Producer: Rick Engdahl

Transcript

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0:00.0

What do you get after a month of Kevin Kelly and got to know the lingo, old new, borrowed

0:06.3

and blue, and what you've learned from me?

0:10.0

Well you get a mailbag with 7.7 points that include a couple of hills and I'm not talking

0:16.1

about the ones you climb. A couple of hills that each in their own way are so very special and we'll speak to that a bit later.

0:24.0

Seven points. Another cast of stars Jeff Fisher, Tom King, Jason Moser,

0:29.3

and the debt ceiling and one other in studio guest. It's your May 2023 mailbag only on this

0:39.0

week's Rule Breaker Investing.

0:40.6

It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner.

0:50.0

Welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing.

0:52.0

Happy final day of May.

0:54.4

You know, there are two ways of counting the seasons.

0:57.4

I grew up anyway with just the astronomical viewpoint,

1:00.8

and that means you celebrate something like summer solstice somewhere around June 22nd each year and

1:07.0

there are the equinoxes as well and they're all around the 21st or 22nd of the month four times a year. That's the astronomical

1:14.5

calendar, but then later I learned about the meteorological calendar and that

1:19.1

one's the one that feels a little bit more apt for me and that just kind of starts the seasons on the

1:24.5

first of each of those four months so by the meteorological calendar summer

1:29.8

starts tomorrow June 1st and that feels about right to me.

1:34.2

If you want, you can just wait for the astronomical calendar

1:37.5

and counts supper three weeks from now,

1:39.8

somewhere around the 21st or 22nd of the month.

1:42.3

Anyway, I'm going to say happy summer. And it was a very

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