Half of Canadians are $200 away from insolvency
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In this episode of the Stock Market Movers podcast, host Ryan Henderson sits down with his good friend and long-time financial adviser, Mark Cuban. Mark Cuban is a financial advisor, author, speaker, speaker and podcast host. He has been with me for a long time and we talk a lot about the current state of the economy and how to manage through it.
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we've been talking about this a little bit, but you give financial advice to families.
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You know, that statistic I mentioned earlier about 49% of Canadians were within $200
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of being unable to pay their monthly bills. Like what can, what can everyday Canadians do at this
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point? What's your advice to like a young family that's looking to buy a house or a young family
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looking to save up or, you know, just manage to get through whatever it is that we're about to
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get through? What advice would you give to them? It's difficult because first of all, it's if
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somebody is a low income, that's who gets impacted. We knew that, excuse me, going in. And as we were
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alluding to earlier, that level of what's considered, you know, full impact of the inflation in a
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difficult way, changing your lifestyle has moved way up the income scale. Now we're about half of
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Canadians are impacted in a way that is changing their lives. It's really tough for them because
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the structural problems that we've got are real. Keep in mind, even a year from now,
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if oil, say oil's at, let's make an easy number for us, $100 today. And that's way up, obviously,
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from sort of the $60 range, just going back four or five months and way more than a year ago.
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But a year from now, let's say oil's at $115. Well, the inflation will be reported as $5 increase
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on the $110. You know, it's compared to the previous year. So when we get all these lofty
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prices, inflation rate will probably go down. We're not going to keep going up at 40% a year
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on something, you know, so they're really stuck in this. The one thing they're also measuring,
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and I want people to understand this, what you're measuring is those paper things called dollars
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don't buy you as much. That's what we're really measuring. Inevitable consequence. When you produce
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a lot of something, usually the price goes down. So we produced, you know, hundreds of
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billions of dollars. No wonder the value of them, the purchasing power went down. And that's what's
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happened. So their money doesn't buy as much. And, you know, we were chatting before, where I'm just
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saying, it's really interesting revelation for people that we say, hey, the Canadian dollar is 78
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cents against the US dollar. I'm going, who cares? I don't eat US dollars. I don't live in a US dollar.
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That's not the relevant measure of your currency. It's what it can buy. And we know it's going to buy
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a heck of a lot less food coming up in the next year. You know, it's, you know, if you're wanting
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to buy lumber for a deck, you know, you're building whatever it is, it doesn't buy as much stuff.
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And so if you're just at that 200, you know, like you're breaking even, and that's a significant
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number. When someone says I'm within, you know, inflation rates at 6%, keep in mind what that
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actually means to people. It means if you're the average Canadian, you probably have to spend about
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$4,000 more for the same stuff you bought a year ago, if that keeps going at that, say, 6% rate.
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And then wait a second, that's after tax dollars. So I got to make like $5,500, pay $1,500 in income
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tax. Oh, now I've got that $4,000 left over. That's the challenge. And there's no easy way,
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easy. There's no way out. Actually, people's lifestyles are going to change. When you have
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extra money, you know, so you're an investor. My advice has been since February, 2020, buy commodities,
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buy stuff. Why? Because, and you can see, it's been a great call, by the way. It's just,
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that's the way it is. Because it's the stuff that's getting, compared to our dollars, getting
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worth more and more and more. And I still believe that. I'm still a big fan of oil as an investment,
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Canadian oil, because we still undervalue it. But it's not just that. If we're going to do the EV
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revolution, and I believe we are politically, well, you need a lot more copper. I mean,
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we're not in the ballpark of, and I saw the Globe and Mail just put in an article a day or two ago,
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and I was laughing. I said, I've been talking about this for two years. Where's your lithium?
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Where's your cobalt? Where's your copper? Where's your nickel? You know, that's how you get electric
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vehicles. You need lithium for batteries, you know, or wind turbines. We're not, we're not even in the
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ballpark of discussing how do you increase the production? How do we obtain those minerals and
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metals? And yeah, it's, so I still like the switch into those material things to protect my purchasing
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power of the dollar. And I'll give you one last example, just to, I'm not, I don't want to confuse
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people. Let's say you were lucky to have $10,000 and you had it two years ago. Would you rather have
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10,000 worth of oil starting two years ago or 10,000 worth of dollars start two years ago? Be way better