Off The Cuff: Living With Integrity

In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris delivers a very personal message about how we each decide to live our lives.

A growing number of people are watching the "prosperity" around them -- record high asset prices, record-low unemployment, new technologies, etc -- and yet feeling that we're making the wrong trade-offs as a society. All that wealth is flowing into fewer and fewer pockets, ecosystems are faltering and an alarming number of species are dying off, depression rates (especially among the youth) are skyrocketing.

In short: there's more money flowing around than ever, and yet we and the planet are becoming sicker and unhappier.

Why?

From Chris' point of view, it comes down integrity. The modern human way of life lacks integrity as a guiding principle. For those of us who desire a better future, brining our actions into better alignment with our integrity is the path to true prosperity.

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Daily Digest 4/19 - Good News Friday: Teaching Yoga at 100, Is Prison Necessary?

• Facing Segregated Schools, Parents Took Integration Into Their Own Hands. It’s Working.
• At 100, Tao Porchon-Lynch still teaches yoga
• Bank Of America Raising Its Minimum Wage To $20 An Hour
• House votes to reauthorize Violence Against Women Act, closing 'boyfriend loophole'
• Starting with Stability: How Denver Is Breaking the Homelessness-Jail Cycle
• Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind
• Researchers find first molecule ever formed in our universe
• We Have to Save the Planet. So I’m Donating $1 Billion.
• Stonehenge: DNA reveals origin of builders

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Daily Digest 4/18 - Top Earners Might Not Be Prepared For Retirement, What Americans Do With Their Tax Refunds

• Millennials are worried that a stock-market crash could derail the US economy
• Even 'top earners' still might not be prepared for retirement
• When Will the Mueller Report Come Out? Why the Redactions? And More
• Half of England is owned by less than 1% of the population
• Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq near records but stock-market volumes are the lowest in months — Here’s why
• When Americans Get Their Tax Refunds, They Go to the Dentist
• Right to Know: A Historical Guide to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
• Monica Crowley, a Fox News Fixture, Is Said to Get a Top Treasury Job
• Libya’s Fragile Oil Renaissance Is Under Threat
• Solving the mystery of fertilizer loss from Midwest cropland
• Summary for Policymakers of IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C approved by governments

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Daily Digest 4/17 - China Debt Levels May Trigger Defaults, Is Bill Gates Ending World Hunger or Boosting Agribusiness?

• Tax Day trauma: Paying for our massive national debt
• China’s unsustainable debt levels may trigger large-scale corporate defaults, OECD warns
• ECB to keep policy accommodative until inflation recovers: Villeroy
• Italy’s deputy leader Di Maio says he won’t change the country’s economic path
• OECD says Japan's consumption tax rate should be more than doubled
• Earnings are coming in, and higher costs are weighing on profit margins
• Seattle: The Utopian Lie
• Sanders takes on Fox — and emerges triumphant 
• Ending World Hunger or Boosting Agribusiness? Gates Foundation Launches Ceres2030
• Permafrost nitrous oxide emissions observed on a landscape scale using the airborne eddy-covariance method 

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The Fed Is Dangerously Wrong

More voices are starting to join ours in criticizing the Fed.

More and more prominent people from the world of finance and politics are beginning to realize that the Fed’s actions have benefitted the few at the expense of the many.

The 0.01% has gained enormously, while the bottom 80% have lost ground. This deeply unfair outcome is increasingly becoming politicized, meaning that the Fed’s era of free reign to shovel ever more money to their Too Big To Fail bank owners and the ultra-wealthy is coming to a close.

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Daily Digest 4/16 - 'Extreme Pollen' Blankets NC, The End Of Empathy

• Venezuela’s Health Crisis Is the Hemisphere’s Problem
• A Silicon Valley software engineer says there's an easy way to determine who's rich and who's not
• Researchers Want To Link Your Genes And Income - Should They?
• The End Of Empathy 
• YouTube mistakenly links Notre Dame fire to September 11 attacks
• Where in The U.S. Are You Most Likely to Be Audited by the IRS?
• ‘Debris Was Flying All Over’: 9 Dead as Storms Spread From Texas to Northeast
• ‘Extreme Pollen’ Blankets North Carolina in a Sneeze-Inducing Yellow Haze

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VIDEO: A Key Insight From Our Webinar Series On Real Estate Investing

During this past weekend's episode of our ongoing webinar series on real estate investing, we put the presenter, Russell Gray on the spot.

He had just finished talking about the role of (prudent) leverage in real estate and how it acts as a force-multiplier for:

• income received vs income invested
• boosting total return (often by several multiples)
• extracting gained equity and re-investing it to produce more cash flow by purchashing additional property
• mitigating risk (though risk will always be involved)

But, leverage is perhaps the biggest concern Peak Prosperity readers have regarding real estate: If we go through another burst housing bubble price correction, will leverage become a killer?

The answer is nuanced and Russ did a great job addressing it. Here's his answer.

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Daily Digest 4/15 - Malls See Tsunami Of Store Closures, Is Grassfed Beef A Sustainable Alternative?

• Offering shoppers new experiences isn’t helping as malls see tsunami of store closures, falling traffic
• Silver versus Debt, Delusions and Devaluation
• Anti-vaxers are winning the war on social media. What's the CDC going to do about it?
• Advocates hoped census would find diversity in agriculture. It found old white people.
• ‘We’ve Really Passed Tipping Point Of Danger’ Says Rev. Andy Bales On The Homeless Crisis
• ‘High’ Oil Prices Are Already Dampening Demand
• Removal of fuel in pool at Fukushima’s melted reactor begins
• Grass-Fed Beef: Is it Really a Sustainable Alternative?

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Daily Digest 4/13 - Big Oil Scrambles To Cut Tesla’s Lifeline, Climate Chaos Is Coming

• America’s Upper Middle Class Feeling the Pinch Too
• The U.S. Immigration System May Have Reached a Breaking Point
• The Controversial 1935 Nobel Peace Prize For Speaking Truth to Power
• Chinese scientists defend implanting human gene into monkeys' brains 
• Employers Can Buy Retirement Security for $2.64 an Hour 
• Capitalism vs. Socialism, Part I
• How the Navy’s Top Commander Botched the Highest-Profile Investigation in Years
• Midwest flooding is causing an exodus of U.S. workers
• Big Oil Scrambles To Cut Tesla’s Lifeline
• Trump’s Grudge Against Puerto Rico Is Blocking Needed Disaster Aid Across The US
• Climate Chaos Is Coming — and the Pinkertons Are Ready

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