Episodes
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.…
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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...
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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…
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Making Money Minute - October 16, 2026
Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Plan B Mike Tyson described perfectly the problem people have dealing with adversity. He commented that “most of us have a plan until we get punched in the face.” Investors, will typically buy a stock or fund, because they see a lot of good things taking…
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Making Money Minute - October 15, 2026
Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Collector Car Trends Low supply and high demand drive the collector car market. What is hot right now, are vehicles that have V8 or V12 engines, especially if they come with a manual transmission. Low milage cars with both of these options get snatched up...
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Making Money Minute - October 14, 2026
Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Debt & Interest Rates For every dollar of revenue the US government takes in, 19 cents of it, is needed to pay the interest on America’s 40 trillion dollar federal debt. The amount of money required to service this debt has doubled in the last 6 years, and...
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Making Money Minute - October 13, 2026
Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - AI Programming Software In spite of its well documented problems, artificial intelligence capabilities are advancing at an exponential rate. The length and complexity of tasks AI is able to complete, roughly doubles every 5-7 months. What’s amazing, is this...
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Making Money Minute - October 12, 2026
Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Consumer Stock Meltdown Companies that produce brand name products like Campbell Soup, General Mills and Nestle used to be places where conservative investors could go to find unexciting, but steady growth in sales, profits and dividends. These days - not so...
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Making Money Minute - October 9, 2026
Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Alcohol’s Headwinds Beer and alcohol stocks used to attract conservative investors looking for companies generating steady growth. Over the last 5 years, this sector has been a disappointment. Sales and profits have headed in the wrong direction, taking…
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Making Money Minute - October 8, 2026
Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Canadian Energy’s Security of Location Canada is blessed with an abundance of energy. Globally we rank 4th in oil reserves and 9th in natural gas. Just as important - is our location. Buyers of Canada’s energy exports to Europe and East Asia, have direct...
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Making Money Minute - October 7, 2026
Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Gold Bear Markets If you want to own physical gold, you have to learn to accept the volatility that comes with it. The metal has suffered 15 bear markets since 1971. Seven of those 15 “bear markets” lasted six months or less, with an average decline of 23%...
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Making Money Minute - October 6, 2026
Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Central Banks & Gold Countries hold reserves in foreign currency to pay for their trade with other nations. Typically, the majority of these funds are denominated in US dollars. That has changed, as more nations reduce their greenback holdings and replace…
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Making Money Minute - October 5, 2026
Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Running Out The Clock Canada and Iran seem to have a common strategy. They are both passing on an immediate deal with the US that would be much to their disadvantage. By waiting, it pushes Trump closer and closer to the Mid-term elections on November 3rd,...
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Making Money Minute - October 2, 2026
Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - The Wealth Pump Our competitive standing globally is slowly disappearing because other nations are doing a better job selling higher quality products and services at more affordable prices. Nationally this leads to less profits and less wealth. To…
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Making Money Minute - October 1, 2026
Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Inflation Is a Global Problem What $100 would buy you in 2019, will only purchase $81.17 worth of goods today in Canada. We are not alone. This same loss of buying power has been experienced in Portugal, Sweden, Italy and frankly most of the western world.…
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Making Money Minute - September 30, 2026
Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Rising Interest Rates For conservative investors times are improving. Interest rates have been steadily going up. Last week the yields on 5 year GIC’s in Canada were as high as 4.3%. Rates on 10 year government bonds were greater than 5%in the US, Australia...
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Making Money Minute - September 29, 2026
Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Repeating The Same Mistakes Bubbles continuously blindside investors. Humans it seems are very good at learning specific lessons, but lousy at transferring that experience into an understanding of the bigger picture. When the internet bubble burst 26 years...
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Making Money Minute - September 28, 2026
Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Oil Choke Points Crude is trading at $100 per barrel again. This is not because we are running out, but rather because the oil we have isn’t getting delivered. Maritime transportation choke points are being squeezed. The Strait of Hormuz is partially shut…
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Making Money Minute - September 25, 2026
Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Retirement Housing Canada's population aged 75+, is forecast to grow by 54% and reach 5.2 million by 2035. Estimates suggest all this growth will need 200,000 additional retirement suites over the next decade to soak up demand. For this to happen, requires...
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Making Money Minute - September 24, 2026
Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - You Need A Spending Plan The biggest problem good savers face, happens when they finally decide to retire. For decades they denied themselves, prioritizing saving over spending in order to have a nest egg when they stopped working. These savers had a plan to...
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Making Money Minute - September 23, 2026
Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Profit Risk Let’s say you bought a stock with amazing potential with 3% of your total assets. Then it goes on a tear, rising to the point where this single security represents a third of your net worth. On paper this looks like a tremendous win. Yet in...
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Making Money Minute - September 22, 2026
Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - tocks Long Term Performance For all its crashes, bubbles and occasional craziness, the stock market has been one of the best places for long term investors to grow their wealth. Over the 100 year period ending in 2025, American investors earned 91 trillion...
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Making Money Minute - September 21, 2026
Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Sports Betting Losers Research suggests only three to five percent of sports bettors make money over the long run. This reflects high betting fees of 4-5% and that many of the betting sites limit the wager size or restrict the accounts of the most skillful...
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Making Money Minute - September 18, 2026
Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Gold Is A Bet On Irresponsibility The fundamental reason for owning gold is based on a long term reality. Governments have historically printed money to support programs they don’t have the resources to pay for. The bet you are making owning gold, is that...
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Making Money Minute - September 17, 2026
Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Newly Minted Canadians Anytime I attend a function with newly minted Canadians, I am always fascinated by the amazing number who arrived here penniless and with few natural advantages. Yet through a combination of hard-work and financial discipline, they...
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Making Money Minute - September 16, 2026
Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - The Rise of Cyber Crime The losses associated with cyber crime involve more than just stolen money. It also includes damage and destruction of data, lost productivity, stealing intellectual property, theft of personal and financial information, business...
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Making Money Minute - September 15, 2026
Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Pharma Is On A Buying Spree The official length of a standard drug patent is 20 years from the date the application is filed. However, because drug companies file patents early in the discovery phase, clinical testing and government approval often eat up 1/2...
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Making Money Minute - September 14, 2026
Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Educations New Reality The sign of a healthy society is recognizing a mistake, then doing a course correction and getting it right on the second attempt. For years bright young people were mesmerized by the cache of getting an advanced degree requiring 4 to…
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Making Money Minute - September 11, 2026
Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Political Gridlock Is A Good Thing The focus has been on right wing extremists in the the Republican Party. Very little scrutiny has been focussed on the same ideological swing happening with the Democrats. The only difference, is Democrats are being...
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Making Money Minute - September 10, 2026
Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Mid Cap Are The Growth Bargains Investors assume the largest companies are the strongest growers….but the historical record says otherwise. Over the last 35 years, US companies just below the top 500 in market value, grew operating cash flow by 9% per year...
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Making Money Minute - September 9, 2026
Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Nuclear Fuel Scarcity Investors are very excited about the development and buildout of a whole new generation of nuclear reactors. But very few have asked the critical question, “Where are all these reactors going to get the fuel needed to run them?” Today's...
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Making Money Minute - September 8, 2026
Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Norway’s Wealth Tax Because of Norway’s vast oil reserves, the country has been able to sock away 2.2 trillion dollars US in the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund. With only 5.6 million residents, the countries cash pile works out to $390,000 US per...
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Making Money Minute - September4, 2026
Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Canada’s Nuclear Development When nuclear power is mentioned, Canada gets left out of the discussion. People forget that we have 3 operating reactors in Ontario providing 1/2 of the province’s electricity and a fourth one in New Brunswick. Cameco, a Canadian...
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Making Money Minute - September 3, 2026
Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Space Cargo The space economy involves more than just putting satellites in orbit. It also includes data centres, manufacturing in zero gravity, defence systems, solar arrays and further out - interplanetary travel and resource mining. The key to this future...
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Making Money Minute - September 2, 2026
Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - AI Predictions Predictions of how Artificial Intelligence will affect the economy are all over the map. The doomers expect an enormous displacement of humans by machines, high unemployment and a nasty recession. The optimists think we will experience large...
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Making Money Minute - September 1, 2026
Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Costs Collecting Tax You don’t think much about it, but some countries are much more efficient at collecting tax dollars from their businesses and citizens than others. For example, the Government of Canada spends $0.80 to $1.00 to collect $100 in taxes. In...
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Making Money Minute - August 31, 2026
Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Hormuz Oil Shipments Because 20% of the world’s oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz, it was widely assumed, crude prices would spike to $200 per barrel if the Iran conflict lasted for more than 90 days. Fast forward 6 months. Oil is at $84 and the war...
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Making Money Minute - August 28, 2026
Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Tax Conspiracies While recently enjoying a cup of coffee with a neighbour, he mentioned a strange idea I thought had been discredited years ago. It involves a conspiracy theory that keeps resurrecting itself on the internet. This fairy tale says that any...
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Making Money Minute - August 27, 2026
Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Liberal vs Conservatives In 1811, the French diplomat, Joseph de Maistre, observed that every nation has the government it deserves. In a democracy our political choices reflect the moral and intellectual preferences of the voters who elect them. The issue…
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Making Money Minute - August 26, 2026
Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Asymmetric Warfare The strategies on how wars are fought has been turned on its head the last couple of years. In the past, the country with the most tanks, ships and planes would overwhelm the enemy with superior firepower. Currently, small countries with...
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Making Money Minute - August 25, 2026
Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Gold Miner Profits Now that gold bullion has pulled back 20% from its January highs of $5500 US, many investors have lost interest and moved on. Yet even at the current price of $4,400 US per ounce, profits for miners of the yellow metal are still enormous....
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Making Money Minute - August 24, 2026
Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Wealth & IQ A high IQ does not make you a great investor. A good example is Mensa. They are an exclusive society for individuals scoring in the top 2% on IQ tests. They also run their own investment club. A 15-year study, between 1986–2001, found that the...
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Making Money Minute - August 21, 2026
Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert - Fees & Performance What is the best predictor of future fund performance? Some think it is past performance. But research shows that a fund with a 5 star rating, is very unlikely to repeat it going forward. The best indicator of future performance is the…
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