Whatever you may think about the Federal Reserve or its motives and contributions, one thing is certain: The Federal Reserve has a profound impact on the supply and cost of capital. This alone makes paying attention to the Fed an important part of any investor’s routine market vigilance – and real estate investors are no exception.
While attending Freedom Fest in Las Vegas, we caught up with a 2012 Summit at Sea™ faculty member who was one of several keynote speakers – along with Steve Forbes, Peter Schiff , Robert Kiyosaki, Andrew “Judge” Napolitano and Mark Victor Hansen.
Coming to you from Las Vegas, Nevada:
- Your straight dealing host, Robert Helms
- Your royally flushed co-host, Russell Gray
- Special guest and best selling author of The Creature from Jekyll Island, G. Edward Griffin
This is G. Edward Griffin’s second appearance on The Real Estate Guys™ radio show. Last October, as part of our Halloween theme, we traveled to Southern California to interview Mr. Griffin – and didn’t quite know what to expect. After all, his signature book, The Creature from Jekyll Island – A Second Look at the Federal Reserve, is somewhat controversial to say the least.
But after spending a week on our 2012 Summit at Sea™ with both G. Edward Griffin and Robert Kiyosaki discussing the Fed, banking, investing and real estate, we were excited to reunite with both of them at Freedom Fest.
We took advantage of the opportunity to sit down with Mr. Griffin one more time, in the wake of several Freedom Fest speakers (including Robert Kiyosaki, Peter Schiff and yours truly) talking about the Fed and its impact on real estate.
Whether or not you subscribe to the notion that the Fed is a nefarious cartel of international banks bent on world domination, or a misguided but very powerful 4th branch of the U.S. government; or a necessary, effective and benevolent steward of the U.S. dollar – no one seems to disagree that when then Fed expands the money supply (quantitative easing), that new currency flows through the economy and ultimately has an affect on all types of asset classes, including real estate.
Therefore, we ask Mr. Griffin to give us a short review of the history and mechanics of the Fed. Since he literally wrote the book on the subject, he’s one of the best qualified people we’ve met to help us with this essential understanding.
While Ed’s position is that the Fed is a problem (hard for us to disagree), we also know that for every yin (negative) there’s a yang (positive), so (parents, cover your children’s eyes) we enjoy pulling out our yang (the force is strong with us) and discussing the opportunities that the Fed’s shenanigans create for real estate investors.
It’s a topic we’ve covered before, but as we listen to Peter Schiff and other financial pundits turn up the warnings of a falling dollar, we can’t help but smile. After all, there is no better financial vehicle with which to short the dollar than a low interest 30 year fixed rate mortgage on an income producing property in the right market. In fact, that was the topic of our presentation at Freedom Fest.
It’s one thing to walk around talking about market cycles and how what goes up must come down and vice-versa. It’s another thing to understand the mechanics of money from the Fed to Wall Street to Main Street so you can see the wave coming and ride it. And it starts with understanding the Federal Reserve Banking System.
So listen and learn as we discuss banking, monetary policy and real estate with G. Edward Griffin.
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