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Clint Coons Esq. | Real Estate Asset Protection

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How To Set up Your Rental Property Management Entity (LLC vs. Corporation)

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Clint Coons Esq. | Real Estate Asset Protection

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Corporation vs LLC for Real Estate Investors

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Do This EVERY Time You Get Paid (2026 Paycheck Routine)

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Planet Money Summer School is back! It's the free economics class you can take from anywhere... for everyone! This summer, we time travel back through history to understand the origins of our economic way of life.

Everything we take for granted today in the economy had a start somewhere. When you hear about automation taking people's jobs, or banks collapsing, or inflation surging, or strange new forms of money, or another round of tariffs, you can be the one to say, "I know why this is happening! We have been here before."

In episode one, we begin with the surprisingly perplexing questions: What is money and where did it come from? To find answers, we visit a remote island in the Pacific Ocean where one form of money is giant circular stones. Then we visit France in the year 1714, where a man on the lam tries to revolutionize the country's entire monetary system, and comes impressively close to the modern economy we have today, before it all falls apart.

We'll have summer school episodes each Wednesday through labor day. Find past seasons of Summer School here. And follow along on TikTok here for video Summer School.
The series is hosted by Robert Smith and produced by Audrey Dilling. Our project manager is Devin Mellor. This episode was edited by Planet Money Executive Producer Alex Goldmark and fact-checked by Sofia Shchukina. Help support Planet Money and hear our bonus episodes by subscribing to Planet Money+ Music: NPR Source Audio - "Lost Situation," "The Sermon," "Midnight Surf," "Sunny Beach Beat," "Uptown Shadows," "Not Time," "Step Over It," "Mambo Mystic," and "Time to Spare."in Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org/planetmoney.

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Summer School 1: An Economic History of the World : Planet Money

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Planet Money Summer School is back for eight weeks. Join as we travel back in time to find the origins of our economic way of life. Today we ask surprisingly hard question: What is money? And where did it come from? We travel to a remote island in the Pacific Ocean for the answer.

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How To Get Filthy Rich During a Recession in 2026

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How I Pick My Stocks: Investing For Beginners

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Planet Money Summer School 1: The Stock Market : Planet Money

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The first class of Planet Money Summer School starts off with a field trip. With the help of a cow, two economists, and three cute animals, we learn what a stock is and how stocks are priced, and we begin to see the psychological forces that make prices move up and down on the stock market.

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Clayton Morris Explains What Is Forced Appreciation for Real Estate Investors

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Rate Expectations: What it means that the Fed is about to lower interest rates. : Planet Money

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The Federal Reserve raised interest rates to get inflation under control. One side effect is that taking out a mortgage to buy a home has gotten very expensive. That’s especially a problem for some homeowners who managed to get a lower mortgage rate years ago. They have a sort of... champagne problem. Or, “golden handcuffs” as it’s called.These homeowners may find they are “locked in” to their current home. In order to move to a new home, they have to take out a new mortgage at a much higher rate. It is one of the many problems plaguing the housing market right now.The Fed is expected to start cutting rates next week. Will the golden handcuff mess finally start to unlock? And what does it mean for people looking to buy their first home?On today’s episode: We go deep into the golden handcuff problem and why it matters for everyone (including non-homeowners). We have FOMO about a big economic symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. And we contemplate how to pronounce one of the most important interest rates in the economy: The IORB.This episode was hosted by Kenny Malone and Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi. It was produced by Sean Saldana. It was edited by Jess Jiang and fact-checked by Sierra Juarez. Engineering by Cena Loffredo. Alex Goldmark is Planet Money’s executive producer.Help support Planet Money and hear our bonus episodes by subscribing to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org/planetmoney.

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As investors buy up mobile home parks, lawmakers and advocates work to keep homes affordable

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Real estate investment companies are buying up mobile home parks across the country, including in the Roaring Fork and Colorado River valleys. Aspen Public Radio spoke with local journalist John Stroud about his reporting on the impact of this trend and possible solutions to protect residents from being priced out.

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Market Crash: Why REITs Are Your Best Safety Net

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The High Cost, for the Poor, of Using a Bank

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Banks are often costlier for the poor than check cashers and other alternative financial services.

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Has Real Estate or the Stock Market Performed Better Historically?

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The stock market has consistently produced more booms and busts than the housing market, but it has also had better overall returns than the real estate market.

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U.S.-style capitalism doesn’t exist in France, guaranteeing low economic growth.

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The French business sector is dominated by the already wealthy, and ordinary French citizens pay the price.