#29 – The Secret Power Within Your Mortgage, The Bogus CPI / Core Rate, Foreclosures and Rent Increases

In this three part podcast Jason interviews Chartered Financial Analyst and Finance MBA, Dan Amerman on how to use inflation and create wealth via debt – “Turning Inflation into Wealth” (MortgageSecretPower.com). Dan is the author of several books on mortgage finance, including the recent book “The Secret Power within Your Mortgage.”
Next, Jason talks with Dr. MacVay about how our friends in Washington DC are fooling us about our loss of purchasing power through misleading indexes like the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and the “Core Rate”. Issues discuss are allocation, cost equivalent, substitution, hedonics, taking out “volatile” little things like food and energy – the truth is exposed.
And finally, a brief radio interview where Jason discusses the foreclosure problem in Southern California and provides one method for predicting future real estate prices by utilizing his RV Ratio™ comparing Rent-to-Value.