Self Directed Investor Talk: Alternative Asset Investing Through Self-directed Ira's & Solo 401k's

Is it greed, or is it ambition?  The difference is huge, but subtle.  One leads to excellence, the other to ruin… yet, they can feel very similar.   Here’s how to make the distinction, and avoid the devastation to your portfolio that awaits the greedy.  I’m Bryan Ellis.  This is Episode #198.----Hello, SDI Nation!  Welcome to the podcast of record for savvy self-directed investors like you, where we have one and only one goal:  To help you make GREAT investments that are simple, safe and strong.One thing I’ve learned in working with you fine folks is this:  There’s some subjectivity to the words “simple, safe and strong”… and that’s really as it should be.  While there’s a baseline for those things –  sending money to a Nigerian prince, for example, is always foolish and never safe – what is true is that what you define as simple or safe or strong may be different than how I define it, and that’s ok.Defining what those terms mean for you is really very important, and the answers simply aren’t the same for eve