About this episode
The episode explores the reasons behind the rising asset prices despite economic crises and discusses investment strategies.
Global stock markets are at all time highs. Gold has doubled and silver tripled in the last two years alone. What's behind these moves? Shouldn't economic crises like Iran be pushing asset prices down? Is now a good time to invest? (00:00) Intro (01:34) Global asset prices (03:45) How 2008 crisis pushed prices up (09:00) Do interest rates matter? (10:24) What COVID did (13:00) WHY asset prices go up (18:27) Crises push up asset prices (20:18) How should YOU react? (23:07) A distribution crisis (27:49) Will asset prices KEEP going up?
People in this episode
Host: Gary Stevenson
Topics covered
- asset prices
- global stock markets
- economic crises
- investment strategies
- interest rates
- COVID impact
Keywords
- asset prices
- stock markets
- gold
- silver
- economic crises
- interest rates
- COVID
- investment
Mentioned in this episode
Places: Iran
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