Real Estate Inflation – Should You Be Afraid Of This New Trend?

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Money Tree Investing Podcast

Stockmarket, Valuestocks, Investing, Finance, Passiveincome, Wealth, Business, Personalfinance

4.6 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Real estate prices are continuing to skyrocket. People continue to flee to the suburbs. Lumber prices are up 300%+ People are paying above listed price all cash offers sight unseen. Where is this madness going to end?

On top of that, Inflation is starting to pick up. Commodity prices are rising... when they have done nothing but drop for over 10 years.

Have we finally turned the corner and started to see the inflation that the Fed has so desperately been seeking.

We discuss all this and more on the show today with Greg McBride, from Bankrate.com.

For more information, visit the show notes at https://moneytreepodcast.com/real-estate-inflation-greg-mcbride

^{Today's Panelists:}

^{Kirk Chisholm | Innovative Wealth}
^{Barbara Friedberg | Barbara Friedberg Personal Finance}
^{Megan Gorman | The Wealth Intersection}

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Money Tree Investing Podcast.
0:04.7	Stock market, wealth, personal finance, value stocks, invest in your life.
0:11.0	Hello, Smart Money Tree podcast listeners.
0:13.5	Welcome to this week's show.
0:15.0	My name is Megan Gorman and I will be your host.
0:17.9	Today we are going to be talking with Greg McBride, Senior Vice President,
0:21.9	and Chief Financial Analyst for Bankrate.com. Greg has more than a quarter century of experience
0:27.4	in personal finance. His commentary regularly appears in the New York Times in the Wall Street
0:33.0	Journal, as well as appearing on TV on CNBC, NBC News, and ABC World News tonight.
0:41.6	Greg, welcome to the show.
0:43.5	Thanks so much, Maggie.
0:44.4	Great to be with you.
0:45.5	I know we're going to talk about the economy and what's going on today.
0:49.1	But before we get started, I think it's always good to start off our interviews with a little bit about you and your
0:55.6	career path, because I'd love to know, how do you get to be the chief financial analyst for
1:00.2	bankrate.com? Well, I've spent my entire career in financial services. Personal finance is not just a
1:06.9	career. It's a passion. It's long been a passion. I started out. I worked in consumer lending for a few
1:12.8	years. So that really gave me a front row seat to the state of household balance sheets. You know,
1:18.7	seeing how much money people owed, see them with their monthly budgets for like who was long on
1:23.5	assets and short on debts and who was long on debts and short on assets. And all of that became
1:28.3	very vital experience. I wanted to transition my career into more of an analyst role. You know,
1:33.6	landed at Bankrate, kind of worked my way up the ladder since. Been at Bankrate over 20 years.
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