The Cash Flow Academy Show

Hosted by Andy Tanner

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Aug 2026

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The Cash Flow Academy Show with Andy Tanner teaches investors how to generate consistent cash flow from the stock market using proven strategies built on financial education, not speculation. Andy Tanner, Rich Dad's Advisor on Paper Assets and author of 401(k)aos and Stock Market Cash Flow, challenges traditional Wall Street thinking and shows you how to take control of your retirement using options, dividends, and intelligent portfolio management. If you're tired of: • Watching stock prices and feeling anxious • Depending solely on a 401(k) • Hoping long-term growth solves everything • Conflicting advice from financial media This show offers a different path. Unlike conventional advice focused on buying and hoping, The Cash Flow Academy teaches active investing strategies designed to create income, reduce risk, and build financial confidence. Topics include: • Options trading strategies • Cash-flow investing • Retirement income planning • Portfolio protection • Market analysis • Financial education and investor psychology Whether you're new to investing or looking to refine advanced strategies, this podcast will help you think differently about money, markets, and control. Subscribe and learn how to make your money work for you.

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August 19, 202645 min

The Japanese Carry Trade Is Moving Your Portfolio Right Now

The S&P is hitting all-time highs, but the buying pressure fueling this market has almost nothing to do with fundamentals — and everything to do with a trade most retail investors have never heard of. Andy Tanner, Corey Halliday, and Noah Davidson break down the Japanese carry trade, why Japan selling U.S. Treasuries is quietly reshaping global markets, and how a hedge fund turned $1 billion into $45 billion — then lost it all — because of leverage, not bad picks. You'll hear why the AI memory stocks that led this rally probably won't lead the next one, how to use extreme volatility events to sell LEAP options for outsized premiums, and why volatility always mean reverts — even when you don't know when. There's always a trade to be had. The question is whether you know how to find it.

August 12, 20261 hr 2 min

Why the Fed Can't Actually Print Your Money Away

What actually is a dollar? Not what you think it should be — what it actually is, right now, in the modern economy. Andy Tanner sits down with Professor J.W. Mason, heterodox economist and author of Against Money, for one of the most thought-provoking conversations in the show's history. They cover how money works as a social technology, why the Fed's "money printing" after 2008 didn't cause inflation — and why the COVID stimulus did, the real story behind Weimar-style hyperinflation, and why understanding what a dollar is might be the most important thing an investor can learn. This isn't an episode about which policy is right. It's about understanding the rules of the game well enough to play it — regardless of who's making the calls. If you're going to buy assets that produce dollars, you'd better know what a dollar actually is.

August 5, 202642 min

Three Income Streams Your Portfolio Is Leaving on the Table

Cutting expenses takes zero creativity. Building income takes knowledge — and the gap between those two mindsets is the difference between scraping by and compounding your way out of the rat race. Andy, Corey, and Noah break down the three cash flow streams you can stack from a single stock position every single month: dividends, put premiums, and covered call income. The same way a savvy real estate investor stacks rent, laundry, and vending — you can stack income layers on top of assets you already own. You'll hear how Warren Buffett collected premium for months before ever buying Burlington Northern, why the 401k charges you for the exact promise options traders get paid to make, and why the strategies most people think are risky are literally categorized as low-risk in your brokerage account. The only argument against this is not knowing how it works.

July 29, 202654 min

Why the Smartest Gold Voice Says Wait

Central banks just posted the highest gold-buying intentions ever recorded. 45% say they'll buy more in the next 12 months. 89% expect to hold more within the year. When the people who print money are hoarding gold, it's worth paying attention. Andy Tanner sits down with Robert Gottlieb — the man who helped launch GLD and spent decades trading precious metals at Citibank, Republic National, HSBC, Bear Stearns, and Koch Industries — for a rare, unfiltered look at how the gold and silver markets actually work. You'll hear why silver may be scarcer than gold right now despite its lower price, how tariff fears moved 533 million ounces of silver in a single market event, and why the most credible voice in the room is telling investors that patience — not panic buying — is the real trade. Andy also breaks down his three-level approach to gold: generational insurance, ETF cash flow, and owning the mine itself. This one covers the whole stack.

July 22, 202642 min

Prove Us Wrong: Rent Checks and Dividends Are the Same Money

Put $1,000 from a rental property and $1,000 from a dividend stock on the table. Try to tell them apart. You can't — and that's the whole point. Andy, Corey, and Noah break down why stocks and real estate are far more alike than the asset class wars would have you believe, and why the investors who understand both end up with the most powerful portfolios. You'll hear why that "tiny" 1% dividend isn't tiny at all when the price you paid is frozen in time and the payout keeps climbing, how to own enough of a company to cover your actual monthly bills, and why the lowest barrier to entry in investing history means there are officially no more excuses. The goal has always been the same: income above expenses. The asset class is just the vehicle.

July 15, 202633 min

The Quiet Divide: Why Asset Owners Are Optimistic and Everyone Else Isn't

The stock market keeps hitting record highs. Consumer confidence keeps hitting new lows. How can both be true at the same time? Andy sits down with Dr. Joanne Hsu, director of the University of Michigan's Consumer Sentiment Index, to find out what the data actually says — and why the gap between how investors feel and how everyone else feels is wider than almost any point in modern history. You'll hear why rising stock prices only help people who own stock, how inflation expectations can become self-fulfilling in ways that trap even the Fed, and what it means that AI mentions in consumer surveys went from 2% to 12% in a single year — and most of them aren't optimistic. The Shiller PE is sitting near all-time highs. Consumer sentiment is near all-time lows. Those two numbers are telling two completely different stories about who's winning right now. Want to Learn More? – Explore free education and tools at cashflowbonus.com to strengthen your investing foundation

July 8, 202657 min

Why Stock Picks Are Keeping You Broke

Everyone wants a stock pick. Almost no one wants what actually makes investors successful. Andy Tanner, Corey Halliday, and Noah Davidson break down why handing someone a stock pick is one of the least helpful things you can do for them — and why the investors who chase tips, newsletters, and hot takes are asking exactly the wrong question. The real edge isn't in picking the right stock. It's in knowing what to do when it goes against you, understanding that your brain is literally wired to cut winners short and hold losers too long, and building a system that works regardless of what the market does next. Corey pulls out the statistics: 85% of market profits come from 15% of stocks. The job isn't to predict which ones — it's to make sure you're still in the game when they show up. The seed is never the problem. It's always the ground.

July 2, 202642 min

The Trade War That Actually Matters

Everyone has an opinion on tariffs. Almost nobody understands them. Andy Tanner sits down with Chad Bown, PhD trade economist and author of How to Win a Trade War , to cut through the noise and get to what actually matters for investors — inflation, supply chain dependency, and the one trade war that's been quietly building for years while everyone argued about the other ones. You'll hear why rare earths and permanent magnets brought the American auto industry to the edge of a crisis almost overnight, how China's strategy of one-way dependence is fundamentally different from anything the global trading system was built to handle, and why the tariffs making headlines may be the least important part of the story. Trade is deflationary when it works. The question is what happens when it stops working — and whether your portfolio is ready for the answer.

June 24, 202645 min

Your Brain Is Sabotaging Your Portfolio

SHOW NOTES: It's never really the trade that wrecks a portfolio. It's the fear that gets there first — or the overconfidence that shows up right after. Andy, Corey, and Noah dig into why your brain's alarm system can't tell the difference between a real threat and a red candle on a chart, and why "trust your gut" only works half the time — you also have to verify it. They break down the four personality types that show up in every trading room, why knowing your own wiring matters more than knowing the market, and the practical systems — mentors, rules, position sizing — that protect you from yourself when emotions take the wheel. Knowledge doesn't just inform your decisions. It's the thing that pushes fear out of the room entirely. Want to Learn More? – Explore free education and tools at cashflowbonus.com to strengthen your investing foundation

June 17, 202643 min

"Why ""Get a Degree"" Stopped Being Good Advice "

2.9 million skilled trade jobs are sitting open every year — and only enough graduates to fill less than half of them. Meanwhile, record numbers of college grads can't find work in their field. Same economy, two completely different outcomes. Andy Tanner sits down with Dr. Jason Altmeyer, former congressman and author of Trade Up , to unpack why the "college for everyone" pipeline broke, and why people who learn a trade are twice as likely to end up owning their own business than people who don't. They dig into AI's real impact on white-collar jobs versus the trades, why automation isn't the threat everyone assumes, and how ownership — not a diploma — is still the most overlooked path to financial independence. This isn't an anti-college argument. It's a permission-to-choose argument. Want to Learn More? – Explore free education and tools at cashflowbonus.com to strengthen your investing foundation