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Global investor & entrepreneur James Hickman, aka Simon Black, returns here in Part 2 to discuss the methodology he recommends for investing in today’s highly uncertain market environment.

James predicts successful wealth-building in the future will require:

  1. active management, where picking individual well-run companies will produce far better returns than owning a passive index
  2. buying quality assets
  3. low-correlation to central bank intervention (examples: gold & silver, niche agriculture, water rights, carbon credits)

James then also shares the key success qualities he looks for in the management of the companies he buys: vision, competence & integrity.

In Part 1 James explained why the world’s central banks — the Federal Reserve, the ECB, the BoJ and the PBoC — are all expanding their money supply through inflation & deficit spending. They are fast approaching the point where their only available option to service the expanding pile of debt is to keep printing ever more, ever faster.

If you haven’t yet watched Part 1, you can do so here: https://youtu.be/ZzCidbnkvoE

The world’s central banks — the Federal Reserve, the ECB, the BoJ and the PBoC — are all expanding their money supply through inflation & deficit spending. They are fast approaching the point where their only available option to service the expanding pile of debt is to keep printing ever more, ever faster.


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