Making Sense with Ed Butowsky

About Making Sense with Ed Butowsky

Wealth Transparency with Ed Butowsky is hosted by Ed Butowsky, Managing Partner of Chapwood Investments and a nationally recognized wealth manager with more than three decades of experience. Known for his straight talk and ability to make complex financial issues clear, Ed explores how current events and market trends impact your money in under 30 minutes per episode. Ed’s expertise has been featured in ESPN’s Broke documentary, the landmark Sports Illustrated article How (and Why) Athletes Go Broke, and media outlets including Fox Business, Bloomberg Radio, and PBS Frontline. He has advised celebrities, athletes, and families across the country on building and protecting wealth, while pioneering tools like the CHIP score to better measure portfolio performance. Each episode of Wealth Transparency with Ed Butowsky offers listeners practical insight, candid perspective, and actionable strategies to help navigate investing with confidence. Learn more about Chapwood Investments at www.chapwoodinvestments.com (http://www.chapwoodinvestments.com) Investment advice offered through Chapwood Investments,LLC, a partner firm of Ethos Financial Group, LLC, a Securities and Exchange Commission-registered investment advisor able to provide investment advice in states where it is registered, exempt, or excluded from registration.  Content contained herein is not intended and should not be construed as personalized investment advice or an offer for the purchase or sale of any security, insurance, or other investment product.  Investments involve the risk of loss, including possible loss of principal.  Please consult with a qualified financial, tax, accounting, or legal professional before implementing any ideas or strategies discussed here.  Content provided may be obtained from sources believed to be reliable but cannot be guaranteed as to its accuracy or completeness.

Publisher

Ed Butowsky

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Oct 2023

Latest episode

1 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

6 of 49 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   1 Sept 2026

   The World Is Broke and Nobody Is Saying It

   The world’s biggest economies need more money at exactly the wrong time. Governments need more money. Investors are demanding more to lend it to them. It only takes one country to falter for a systemic problem to take over everything. Japan, the UK, France, Germany, and the United States are all dealing with rising interest rates, growing debt, and the need to raise more money. That is where the conversation gets especially interesting. Andrew Tang of Turner Financial Group, Michelle Connell ...

2. 

   26 Aug 2026

   Your Wages Are Up 3%. Your Costs Are Up 7%. Here Is What Nobody Is Telling You.

   That gap between what you earn and what everything costs isn't an accident; it is a structural drain on your wealth. Wages are up 3%. Prices are up 7%. China's weak domestic demand is pushing deflationary pressures into global markets, while American families continue to face higher costs. The US 30-year Treasury moved above 5%, Japan's 10-year approached a 30-year high, private university costs roughly $100,000 a year, and the UK's economy was compared to Mississippi in a major financial pu...

3. 

   18 Aug 2026

   The Labor Market, Oil, Japan, and Europe: What the Headlines Are Not Telling You

   While everyday investors sleepwalk through a rapidly changing market, mainstream headlines are missing three financial pressures developing beneath the surface. Michelle Connell of Portia Capital Management, Andrew Tang of Turner Financial Group, and I pull back the curtain on Wealth Transparency to expose the disconnect between media headlines and market reality: · The Phantom Labor Market: Consistent downward jobs revisions show job creation has been softening since 2024...

Inside a recent episode

The Economic Signals Investors Should Not Ignore Right Now

Published 17 Mar 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And it's not sustainable. And the implications are basically a sell -off in bonds and treasury bonds. If people don't trust your fiscal system, you're going to see the demand for securities of your sovereign debt, it's going to go down. Then it's going to lead to obviously the weaker spending power with the dollar, dollar decreasing value. And then you're going to have an inflation problem because your purchasing power is going to be deteriorating. And so it's going to be a slippery slope of a chain events that is all negative. It's all negative. Right now, we're just surviving on borrow time, the true implication and how crazy this death spiral of debt and nations, you know, it still remain to be seen. […]

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