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

Merry Christmas, my friends! Today is light-hearted… let’s consider the popular Christmas movie “It’s A Wonderful Life” because, curiously, it reflects multiple sides of the Self-Directed Investor… and reveals a path to the merger of happiness and wealth that’s not actually achieved by any of the characters in the movie. I’m Bryan Ellis. This is a special CHRISTMAS EDITION… Episode #175.----Hello, SDI Nation! Welcome to the podcast of record for savvy self-directed investors like you!Merry Christmas, my friends! And Happy Holidays to you folks who celebrate something else.My lovely wife Carole has long loved the classic Christmas movie “It’s a Wonderful Life”, in which the good-hearted George Bailey finds himself in serious trouble on account of some financial carelessness at the Bailey Brothers Building & Loan. This gives an opening to Potter, the very wealthy and very evil villain, to swoop in and take over the Building & Loan and thus own absolutely everything in the little town of Bedford Falls, N