Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert

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October 31, 20260 min

Making Money Minute - October 30, 2026

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Why Is AI Tanking? Artificial intelligence is seeing the biggest infrastructure buildout in history. Until recently, investors just assumed, the spending that supports it would never end. Now that the fascination has worn off, they are starting to ask three important questions. Will the demand be there to support all these facilities? Will people be willing to pay for the service? Will the profits be enough to repay all the money that has been borrowed to finance its development? The answers still aren’t clear as to how all this is going to play out. That is why investors are taking their foot off the gas to do a reality check - putting AI stocks in the tank. For more information listen to our Making Money podcast with Ron Hiebert and Graham Hicks at letsmakemoney.ca or CFCW.com.

October 31, 20261 min

Making Money Minute - October 29 2026

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Auto Makers Find New Opportunities The European and North American auto industries have been in turmoil for years. Environmental regulations, tariffs and higher borrowing costs are pushing new vehicle prices beyond the ability of much of the population to afford. Another problem is competition. The Chinese are flooding international markets with inexpensive vehicles. Even with these issues, there are some potential bright spots. The auto industry knows how to build stuff, and that expertise is increasingly valuable as countries everywhere work on rebuilding and on shoring domestic industry. Vehicle manufacturers are contracting out services to the defense industry, producing industrial batteries for electrical storage and developing robotics…just to name a few. For more information listen to our Making Money podcast with Ron Hiebert and Graham Hicks at letsmakemoney.ca o.r CFCW.com.

October 31, 20260 min

Making Money Minute - October 28, 2026

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - AI Needs Guard Rails The US and China are in a battle to develop Artificial intelligence. The victors will achieve worldwide dominance in both defence and industrial development. The race has tightened to the point where Chinese AI models are estimated to be only 6 months behind the most powerful American ones. Even though AI has shown it can disobey human commands, escape secure environments, and wreak real-world havoc, no country wants to take its foot off the gas pedal and risk losing the race. Experts are pleading for both countries to reign in development until regulation and safeguards can be put in place. So far - no one is listening For more information listen to our Making Money podcast with Ron Hiebert and Graham Hicks at letsmakemoney.ca or CFCW.com.

October 31, 20261 min

Making Money Minute - October 27, 2026

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Political Dreaming Political parties develop economic platforms that focus on easy promises voters like, but avoid the tough things they don’t. Take for example lowering taxes. The benefits are promised to produce an economic upswing that will create more wealth. The problem is that in the real world, tax reductions by themselves don’t work. They need to be accompanied by other things which cause pain and voters don’t like. Since 1980, there have been five periods in the US where tax cuts were implemented. In 4 out of 5 of them, there was no sustained economic improvement. Only in the minds of politicians and the people who vote for them do economic promises come with free lunches. For more information listen to our Making Money podcast with Ron Hiebert and Graham Hicks at letsmakemoney.ca or CFCW.com.

October 31, 20260 min

Making Money Minute - October 26, 2026

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Private Equity Funds Private equity funds have seen huge growth. They buy companies that aren’t publicly traded with the rationale that these businesses are much cheaper than equivalent ones traded on the stock market. Their success has created a problem. With over 13,000 private equity funds now open for business in the US alone, there are too many funds for the opportunities available. New entrants are finding it hard to generate great returns because many of the best opportunities have already been picked over. Investors need to be conscious of this when investing in this area, especially if a mediocre performer is taking the standard fee of 20% of the profits. For more information listen to our Making Money podcast with Ron Hiebert and Graham Hicks at letsmakemoney.ca or CFCW.com.

October 23, 20261 min

Making Money Minute - October 23, 2026

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - A Cash Stash Futurists often talk about the day when societies will move past physical currencies, and all financial activity will be digitally or electronically based. For this reason, many people no longer carry cash, or for that matter, have an emergency stash they keep at home. This is a mistake. If the electricity doesn’t work, or our digital infrastructure crashes or gets hacked, you and everyone else will lose the ability to buy essentials like food, medicine and fuel unless you have physical currency. I am not suggesting you prepare for the end of the world, but being practical would suggest having enough cash around to take care of necessities for a week or so in case our digital world sputters. For more information listen to our Making Money podcast with Ron Hiebert and Graham Hicks at letsmakemoney.ca or CFCW.com. Sent from my iPad

October 23, 20260 min

Making Money Minute - October 22, 2026

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Government Aren’t Good At Business Canada wants to build all kinds of infrastructure to make us less dependent on the US. The problem is that our projects seem to end up costing 2 to 5 times as much to complete as our foreign competitors. Whether we talk about pipelines, dams, electrical transmission or nuclear power … our cost over runs are third world. When prices stampede, profits disappear and anyone who knows how to use a calculator runs for the exit. The only player left who is willing to pour money down a hole is the government. Eventually this leaves tax payers holding the bag owning a portfolio of losers needing continued subsidies to survive. For more information listen to our Making Money podcast with Ron Hiebert and Graham Hicks at letsmakemoney.ca or CFCW.com.

October 23, 20261 min

Making Money Minute - October 21, 2026

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Public vs Private Markets Publicly traded securities are priced at whatever buyers and sellers establish as their worth. Because situations can change rapidly in a free market economy, so do opinions and the prices investors are willing to pay. The negative side of being public is volatility. The positive is price transparency. Private equity owns assets that don’t trade regularly or at all. Securities in these portfolios are priced using computer models that determine theoretical values. These calculations provide what investors like - stable prices. The problem is that computer models seldom give investors price clues of pending disaster. Public markets provide transparency and liquidity - two things private equity lacks. For more information listen to our Making Money podcast with Ron Hiebert and Graham Hicks at letsmakemoney.ca or CFCW.com.

October 23, 20261 min

Making Money Minute - October 20, 2026

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - What Are The Odds What brings gamblers into the stock market is the hope that they find the next Apple or Nvidia before it has a phenomenal price increase. They then plan to take a couple grand, hop on board, and let the ride make them a millionaire. Good on you if it works - but really….what are the odds of taking $2000 and putting it on a company that goes up 500 times so you end up with a million. In the US, over the last century, there have been about 30,000 companies that have publicly listed their shares. Only 100, or .3% of the total, went up the 500 times needed to make you a millionaire. The other 99.7% didn’t. There is an old Scottish proverb that says, “If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.” For more information listen to our Making Money podcast with Ron Hiebert and Graham Hicks at letsmakemoney.ca or CFCW.com.

October 23, 20261 min

Making Money Minute - October 19, 2026

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Lipstick on a Pig One of the great linguistic achievements of modern economics, has been its ability to take very alarming trends and wipe them from our collective memories by giving them nicer names. Debt became stimulus, government spending became investment, money printing became liquidity, bailouts became stabilization, intervention became support, inflation became growth, and budget cuts became right sizing. Pompous sounding government programs like the Supply & Confidence Agreement or The Inflation Reduction Act are really just patches on a very leaky economic balloon. Putting lipstick on a pig - doesn’t make the problem go away. For more information listen to our Making Money podcast with Ron Hiebert and Graham Hicks at letsmakemoney.ca or CFCW.com.