The Timeless Investor Show
The Timeless Investor Show explores how serious thinkers build wealth, resilience, and lasting success across generations.
Hosted by Arie van Gemeren, CFA - The Timeless Investor Show connects history, philosophy, and real-world investing lessons into practical frameworks for today's investors, with a core focus on real estate investing.
We study empires, cycles, currencies, and capital stewardship - and translate timeless principles into real-world action.
Think well. Act wisely. Build something timeless.
Podcasting since 2025 • 34 episodes
The Timeless Investor Show
Latest Episodes
When Tokyo Was Worth More Than America: The Japanese Real Estate Bubble & What It Means for Today
In 1989, the land under Tokyo's Imperial Palace was worth more than all of California. Tokyo's real estate exceeded the entire United States in value. The Nikkei hit 38,957 — and didn't reach that level again until February 2024.This isn't ...
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Season 1
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Episode 34
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15:35
The Lloyd’s Disaster: How 34,000 Investors Lost Everything
In 1993, thousands of investors around the world opened letters from Lloyd’s of London demanding sums that didn’t seem real. £300,000. £1 million. £3 million. Not money they invested — money they owed.Doctors, farmers, aristocra...
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Season 1
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Episode 33
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22:35
Pattern Recognition, Humility, and the YouTube Deal That Changed Everything — Sean Dempsey
In 2005, Sean Dempsey tried to buy a tiny video startup on behalf of Google. The founders laughed him off.Eighteen months later, Google paid $1.65 billion for that same company… and the entire industry mocked the decision...
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Season 1
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Episode 32
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58:23
When Paper Money Destroys Nations: France’s Assignat Collapse
In 1790, revolutionary France thought it had solved its financial crisis by printing a new kind of paper money — the Assignat — backed by confiscated church land.Within five years, it destroyed the French economy, vaporized the mi...
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Season 1
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Episode 31
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13:18
The Panic That Birthed the Fed: JP Morgan, Jekyll Island, and the Secret Origins of the Federal Reserve
In October 1907, the U.S. banking system imploded overnight. Knickerbocker Trust collapsed, panic spread through New York, and the entire American economy teetered on the edge of destruction.Only one man could stop it—J.P. Mo...
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Season 1
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Episode 30
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