Rogue Retirement Lounge with Matt Franklin: Entrepreneur, Investor, Bitcoin Enthusiast

Matt Franklin - entrepreneur, investor, consultant, video producer, retirement nerd

If you're self-employed and you want to learn about retirement planning and investing, this podcast is for you. **THIS IS NOT YOUR AVERAGE, BORING RETIREMENT PODCAST** The Rogue Retirement Lounge covers investing basics, real estate, self-directed IRAs, retiring abroad, and much more. We talk about how to find cash-flowing assets that can beat stock market returns with less risk. We also cover tax-reduction strategies, asset protection, macroeconomics and other financial goodness, along with other info you need to know as you approach retirement, including social security, medicare, travel, health, longevity and more. Learn more at https://rogueretirementlounge.com read less
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Retiring in a Post-October 7th World... How F*cked Are We; How F*cked Will We Be?
Nov 18 2023
Retiring in a Post-October 7th World... How F*cked Are We; How F*cked Will We Be?
Today we're gonna take a quick detour. Well, a not-so-quick detour, actually. If you haven't heard it, you need to hear the speech Bari Weiss gave at the Federalist Society recently. If you don't wanna hear my semi-literate, stammering preamble, you can skip ahead to around 11:30.Her speech, titled "You Are the Last Line of Defense" is the most important piece of content I've consumed in 2023. Please listen. Please, seriously, listen.Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet Magazine.Weiss is the winner of the LA Press Club's 2021 Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism. She is also the winner of the Reason Foundation’s 2018 Bastiat Prize, which honors writing that “best demonstrates the importance of freedom with originality, wit, and eloquence.” In 2019, Vanity Fair called Weiss the Times's "star opinion writer."Weiss is a proud Pittsburgh native. Her first book, "How to Fight Anti-Semitism," was the winner of a 2019 National Jewish Book Award. She lives with her wife and daughter in Los Angeles.If you have a question you’d like me to answer on the podcast, email me at matt@rogueretirementlounge.comCheck out more episodes at my retirement planning podcast website: https://www.rogueretirementlounge.com/Follow me on twitter! https://twitter.com/LoungeRogueFollow me on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/lairdgrainger/
RSI Explained. Learn About The Relative Strength Index Here!
Aug 15 2022
RSI Explained. Learn About The Relative Strength Index Here!
Sometimes you're looking at your retirement account. You're thinking to yourself, "Self? I'm gonna need this money to live on for, like, 30 years. If I'm gonna make an investment, what are some indicators that could help me make that decision?"We've all had this chat with ourselves thousands of times, right? Well, maybe not, but either way, sometimes, before you do something that you might regret, like smoking crack, hiring a hooker from Craigslist, saying 'yes' when your buddy says, "Smell my finger," or buying Tesla stock in 2022, you want some help, maybe some kind of INDICATOR that might sway you to say YES if it's a good idea, and NO if it's a bad idea.Well, there are a hundred indicators that can provide that help when you're talking about investing. Today, we're talking about the Relative Strength Index, or RSI and how it might help you make decisions when you're considering buying a certain stock, mutual fund, ETF or cryptocurrency.The long, drawn-out explanation, with the eye-crossing equations used to determine a given RSI, can be found here:https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/rsi.aspHere's that Finviz chart for the Sprott Uranium Miners ETF:https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=URNMRemember, go to www.rogueretirementlounge.com/crypto to sign up for your own Blockfi account. You'll get up to a $250 crypto bonus and you'll be on the best exchange out there. AND you'll be able to earn interest on your crypto. And, you'll be supporting this show, as I'm a Blockfi affiliate!If you have a question you’d like me to answer on the podcast, email me at matt@rogueretirementlounge.comCheck out more episodes at my retirement planning podcast website: https://www.rogueretirementlounge.com/Follow me on twitter! https://twitter.com/LoungeRogueFollow me on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/lairdgrainger/
Are We In Another Dotcom Boom? | Three Senators Lecture Fidelity About "Digital Assets"
Aug 8 2022
Are We In Another Dotcom Boom? | Three Senators Lecture Fidelity About "Digital Assets"
HEY HEY HEY!We're living in interesting times, am I right? Venture capital firms are investing BOAT-LOADS of dough into the crypto/Web 3 space. Are we having a repeat of the dotcom bubble? Maybe...Speaking of VC, here's a link to Andreeson Horowitz's "Team" page, as I mentioned in today's episode:https://a16z.com/about/team/As promised, here's the EXCELLENT paper from Fidelity about Bitcoin:https://www.fidelitydigitalassets.com/sites/default/files/documents/bitcoin-first.pdfHere's the episode I did last year with a FANTASTIC explanation of XRP:https://www.rogueretirementlounge.com/retirement-news-for-friday-october-15-2021-ripple-101-how-to-buy-xrp-crypto-etf-approved-miami-mayor-suarez-rules/Here's where you can buy the book we ALL should own, "The Bitcoin Standard"https://amzn.to/3d8Is3ZHere's the SSA life expectancy calculator:https://www.ssa.gov/oact/population/longevity.htmlRemember, go to www.rogueretirementlounge.com/crypto to sign up for your own Blockfi account. You'll get up to a $250 crypto bonus and you'll be on the best exchange out there. AND you'll be able to earn interest on your crypto. And, you'll be supporting this show, as I'm a Blockfi affiliate!If you have a question you’d like me to answer on the podcast, email me at matt@rogueretirementlounge.comCheck out more episodes at my retirement planning podcast website: https://www.rogueretirementlounge.com/Follow me on twitter! https://twitter.com/LoungeRogueFollow me on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/lairdgrainger/
As Goes California, So Goes YOUR State | "Journalism" | and Your ACTUAL Retirement Spending...
Jun 18 2022
As Goes California, So Goes YOUR State | "Journalism" | and Your ACTUAL Retirement Spending...
I'm BACK, for the ATTACK.If you weren't watching the California primary results, I've got a little update for you. And hey, who cares anyway, 'cause California POLICY is cummin' your way, LIKE IT OR NOT.Here's Michael Shellenberger on the Adam Corolla podcast. It's good:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/part-2-ca-gubernatorial-candidate-michael-shellenberger/Here's the New York Times article that claims "overall crime in San Francisco has changed little since [SF DA Chesa] Boudin took office in early 2020."https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/05/us/chesa-boudin-recall-san-francisco.html?smid=url-shareHere's an article from The Economist that has a slightly different slant on the topic:https://www.economist.com/united-states/2022/06/05/why-san-franciscos-clash-with-its-district-attorney-mattersHere's my interview with Tim Leffel about retirement abroad:https://www.rogueretirementlounge.com/tim-leffel-interview-mexico-as-a-2000month-geographic-plan-bAnd finally, here's that Wall Street Journal article about your actual spending in retirement:https://www.wsj.com/articles/retirement-spending-advice-tips-secrets-11654100402?st=hm161z6whppj7t3&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalinkRemember, go to www.rogueretirementlounge.com/crypto to sign up for your own Blockfi account. You'll get up to a $250 crypto bonus and you'll be on the best exchange out there. AND you'll be able to earn interest on your crypto. And, you'll be supporting this show, as I'm a Blockfi affiliate!If you have a question you’d like me to answer on the podcast, email me at matt@rogueretirementlounge.comCheck out more episodes at my retirement planning podcast website: https://www.rogueretirementlounge.com/Follow me on twitter! https://twitter.com/LoungeRogueFollow me on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/lairdgrainger/