Real Estate, Inflation and Government Policy with Economist Brian Beaulieu | EP67

Brian Beaulieu has served as CEO and Chief Economist of ITR EconomicsTM since 1987, where he Researches the Use of Business Cycle Analysis and Economic Forecasting as Tools for Improving profitability. Brian has shared his Highly Valued Research Results via Presentations, Workshops, and Seminars in Numerous Countries to Hundreds of thousands of Business Owners and Executives for the last 38 years.

In this episode we talked about:

• Brian`s Background
  
• Economic Outlook for 2021- 2022
  
• Interest Rates
  
• Inflation
  
• The Federal Reserve
  
• Modern Monetary Theory
  
• Austrian Economy Overview
  
• The Real Estate Prospective
  
• Bulding Manufactured Housing
  
• Safety of the US dollar
  
• The Overview of Real Estate Opportunities
  
• Mentorship, Resources and Lessons Learned
  

Useful links:
https://www.itreconomics.com/brian-beaulieu
brian@itreconomics.com

Transcription:

Jesse (0s): Welcome to the working capital real estate podcast. My name is Jesse Fragale. And on this show, we discuss all things real estate with investors and experts in a variety of industries that impact real estate. Whether you're looking at your first investment or raising your first fund, join me and let's build that portfolio one square foot at a time. Welcome to working capital the real estate podcast. My name is Jesse for galley and my guest today is Brian Ballou. Brian has served as CEO and chief economists of ITR economics since 1987, where you research is the use of business cycle analysis and economic forecasting as tools for improving profitability. 

 

Brian has shared his highly valued research results with via presentations, workshops, and seminars in numerous countries to hundreds of thousands of business owners and executives for the last 38 years. And Brian and I will be speaking in October in new Orleans for the bigger pockets conference, BP con Brian, how's it going? 

 

Brian (1m 1s): It's going pretty well. Just me. How about you? 

 

Jesse (1m 4s): I'm doing great. Doing great. You know, we're kind of, we're in a good spot right now in Toronto. Weather-wise Italy's moving to the final and in the Euro. So, 

 

Brian (1m 15s): You know, everything's everything's okay. 

 

Jesse (1m 21s): So we've talked a little bit before the show. You're joining us from New Hampshire today. Brian, is that, is that home for you? 

 

Brian (1m 29s): No, home is Marco island. We summer up here in New Hampshire and here we are right on. Yeah. 

 

Jesse (1m 36s): Well, I'm very excited to have you on the show as listeners know, I'm a bit, a bit, I'm a bit of a economics geek and I love looking at real estate through the lens of, of macro and micro trends, you know, when it comes to investing and, and ultimately forecasting where we think real estate is going to go. And another thing we tal