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Lewis HowesRECESSION: A Once In A Lifetime Opportunity To Build Wealth IS COMING! | Jaspreet Singh
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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
Jaspreet Singh on Inflation, Recessions, Investing Strategy, and Building Wealth
- Singh argues that recessions and crashes are like a Black Friday for prepared investors, but that opportunity depends on understanding how the economy got here, since history rhymes rather than repeats.
- He explains that past downturns were met with money printing and rate cuts, which created inflation, and that today's slowdown is itself caused by inflation, leaving the Fed to choose between fighting inflation and rescuing the economy.
- For practical moves, he favors buying in phases or dollar-cost averaging rather than timing the bottom, treats a home as a liability to be bought only if affordable, and warns strongly against adjustable rate mortgages.
- He shares a 75/15/10 spending-investing-saving plan, a 'rule of five' for purchases, and the idea of using money to buy back time and investing in skills and businesses.
- The conversation also covers his family history, bullying, early business failures, his mother's cancer, mental health, and why money amplifies who you are but does not create happiness.
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasToday's slowdown is different because inflation is the cause.
Singh says previous crashes in 2001, 2008, and 2020 were met with stimulus, but the Fed can now either fight inflation or fight the economy, not both, and the choice determines where opportunity appears.
The Fed's next move shapes which assets surge or fall.
If the Fed keeps raising rates even into a recession, he expects broad buying opportunities; if it reverses and cuts rates, he expects money to flood into assets like stocks and real estate, widening the wealth gap.
Don't try to time the market bottom.
Singh did research in good times, then bought in phases as prices fell 10 to 15 percent, noting that people waiting for the bottom in 2020 missed the rebound; he also offers weekly dollar-cost averaging as a passive alternative.
Buy a home only if you can afford it.
He views a home as a liability for making memories, says to ignore market timing and check down payment, monthly payment, taxes, and fix-up costs, and urges people to avoid adjustable rate mortgages in favor of fixed rates they can refinance later.
Invest first, spend what's left.
His 75/15/10 plan caps spending at 75 cents of each dollar, invests at least 15, and saves at least 10 until three to 12 months of expenses are covered, while his 'rule of five' says if you can't buy five of something you can't afford one.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotesThe stock market is a place that transfers money from the patient to the impatient.
— Jaspreet Singh
When you fail at something, you don't become a failure as a person. You failed at a task.
— Jaspreet Singh
If you can't buy five, you can't afford one.
— Jaspreet Singh
You can use your money as a tool instead of as a fool.
— Jaspreet Singh
Learn the rules to money, leverage it, use it to your advantage because either you're gonna use it to your advantage, or you're gonna get used to somebody else's advantage.
— Jaspreet Singh
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SPEAKERS
Jaspreet Singh
guestFinancial educator and entrepreneur behind the Minority Mindset platform, focused on personal finance and investing.
Lewis Howes
hostHost of The School of Greatness and interviewer on the Lewis Howes podcast/channel.
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