Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert

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August 11, 20261 min

Making Money Minute - August 7, 2026

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Financial Noise Watching financial news, unleashes a fire hose of information - most of which is totally useless in helping you plan and achieve your financial goals. Separating the valuable from the noise is almost a full time job. The other downside, is that a diet high in financial news creates a time mismatch. Most of us are thinking about strategies that take decades to achieve. Yet much of the advice given on financial networks is by people whose time horizon is next week or next month - not next decade. Cutting your consumption of financial noise will often improve your returns, because it will keep you focussed on the long term. For more information listen to our Making Money podcast with Ron Hiebert and Graham Hicks at letsmakemoney.ca or CFCW.com.

August 11, 20261 min

Making Money Minute - August 6, 2026

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Tungsten Subsidies Tungsten is an incredibly strong metal with the highest melting point. This puts it in demand for cutting tools, wear resistant parts, munitions, and aerospace components. The problem is a supply bottleneck. China produces 80% of the world’s supply and has put a squeeze on exports. As a result, prices have increased 9 times in the last 18 months. This has left Western nations scrambling to develop domestic sources. They have been investing heavily to incentivize miners to do so. Government financial backing, and guaranteeing an end market with long term purchase contracts has lessened the sectors risk. Investors should be paying attention! For more information listen to our Making Money podcast with Ron Hiebert and Graham Hicks at letsmakemoney.ca or CFCW.com.

August 11, 20261 min

Making Money Minute - August 5, 2026

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Micro Betting The second fastest growing economic sector in America from 2019-2024 was gambling … and sports betting was the hotspot. In 2017, Americans legally bet $4.9 billion dollars on various sports. In 2025, it was over $160 billion. During those 8 years, it grew 32 times larger. To keep fans interested, formats continuously change. The next big trend looks to be Micro - bets. Rather than betting on a game’s outcome, fans are increasingly wagering on more immediate events, like whether a player hits a home run at the next at bat or if a quarterback completes a pass on the next play. Gamblers seem to get bored easily, so the key to this sectors growth, is its ability to endlessly change the things people can bet on. For more information listen to our Making Money podcast with Ron Hiebert and Graham Hicks at letsmakemoney.ca or CFCW.com.

August 11, 20261 min

Making Money Minute - August 4, 2026

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Tech Concentration Risk Global markets have been difficult to profit from if your portfolio is properly diversified across different asset classes and securities. Most sectors currently are treading water, and only a few stocks are providing the majority of the gains. In the first 6 months of this year, US markets gained 10.2%… 9.1% of which came from technology stocks. The Canadian market recorded an 11.2% increase over the first 1/2 of the year. The performance superstars up here were the financial and energy sectors. They gained 7.6% and 3.6% respectively. Concentrating positions in a few securities to capture big gains can be rewarding, but…the downside comes when prices drop, leaving a big whole in your wallet. For more information listen to our Making Money podcast with Ron Hiebert and Graham Hicks at letsmakemoney.ca or CFCW.com.

July 31, 20261 min

Making Money Minute - July 31, 2026

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Past Performance & The Future Investing is based on the cult of performance, but as is so often repeated - past performance does not guarantee future results. Take for example, the services that rank mutual fund managers on a scale of one to five stars - with five stars being the highest. It seems intuitive that picking a five star fund would be the logical investment choice. But experience shows that it isn’t. Only about 12% to 14% of 5-star rated mutual funds manage to retain their 5-star status the following year. Past performance has a track record and is easy to rank - but it is not a reliable indicator of how much profit a fund will generate in the future. For more information listen to our Making Money podcast with Ron Hiebert and Graham Hicks at letsmakemoney.ca or CFCW.com.

July 31, 20261 min

Making Money Minute - July 30, 2026

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - AI’s Big Promises Our current bull market is effectively one gigantic bet on Artificial Intelligence. Since Chat-GPT was launched in November 2022, AI-related stocks have accounted for 75% of market gains, 80% of market profits, and 95% of capital expenditures in the US. The single most important issue determining whether this bull market will continue, is based upon the answer to a simple question. Will Artificial Intelligence, or the AI revolution, be able to deliver on its optimistic promises of boosting productivity and reducing costs? If so - all is well. If not - investors could be in for a world of hurt. For more information listen to our Making Money podcast with Ron Hiebert and Graham Hicks at letsmakemoney.ca or CFCW.com.

July 31, 20260 min

Making Money Minute - July 29, 2026

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Boomers & Home Prices If you are thinking that your dream home is beyond reach - that could change given time. Demand for mid to higher end homes is likely to be lower as demographics shift. Baby boomers are aging, younger generations are smaller in number, birthrates are low, and policy changes have thinned immigration. This will bring a lot of housing units onto the market, as baby boomers, which are the largest home owning generation ever, make their exit. This could create a glut of middle and higher end homes. When supply is greater than demand, prices drop, and that is when dreams can become reality. For more information listen to our Making Money podcast with Ron Hiebert and Graham Hicks at letsmakemoney.ca or CFCW.com.

July 31, 20261 min

Making Money Minute - July 28, 2026

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Tech Spending & Growth Massive investments in technology were the major driver of US economic growth in 2025. Harvard economist Jason Furman, calculated that technology investments accounted for 92% of Gross Domestic Product growth last year. Other research suggests that AI data center buildouts contributed more to the economy than all consumer spending in America combined in 2025. The huge flows of capital, concentrating on the the buildout of data centres and artificial intelligence capability, mask how weak the rest of the US economy currently is. I just hope that this capital investment can provide all the efficiency and economic growth the tech companies are promising, or there will be some unpleasant surprises ahead. For more information listen to our Making Money podcast with Ron Hiebert and Graham Hicks at letsmakemoney.ca or CFCW.com.

July 31, 20261 min

Making Money Minute - July 27, 2026

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Alberta’s Tax Freedom Day We certainly pay a lot of taxes. Even in Alberta where the burden is less than most other provinces, tax freedom day didn’t come this year until May 25th. If the average Canadian family had to pay their taxes first each year, before keeping any for themselves, tax freedom day would be the date on the calendar you would actually start doing that. The average Alberta family pays $64,566 annually in taxes, which works out to 37% of total income. If you wonder where it all goes, 67.3% is passed on to the Fed’s, 26.3% stays with the province and only 6.4% trickles down to municipalities. As tax freedom day demonstrates, Canada doesn’t have an income crisis - but a spending one. For more information listen to our Making Money podcast with Ron Hiebert and Graham Hicks at letsmakemoney.ca or CFCW.com.

July 24, 20261 min

Making Money Minute - July 24, 2026

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - New Issue Profitability The new issue market is heating up again. Lots of companies are deciding that the timing is right to transition from private to publicly owned. Coming to the market for the first time and issuing shares is exciting because it gives investors the ability to participate in new opportunities. The important question - “Will these new issues make money for investors?” Between 1980 and 2024, companies that were profitable before they went public saw their shares over the next three years increase by 33.6%. Companies that weren’t profitable before going public actually saw their shares decline by 1/2 a percent over the same period. If you buy new issues that are already profitable - it is more likely, so will you. For more information listen to our Making Money podcast with Ron Hiebert and Graham Hicks at letsmakemoney.ca or CFCW.com.