The stock market today, at 170% of GDP, is not in any regard reflective of the underlying conditions of global central banks tightening into a worldwide recession. This statement from Michael Pento, our guest this week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio. Your host, Dennis Tubbergen, talks with Pento about the comparison of today’s equities market…
Read MoreThe Biden administration is bragging about all the great new jobs that are being created. However, when you compare that to the labor participation rates and worker population ratios, what you see is a dramatic fall in the sheer number of people who are working, or in the job market at all. Our guest this…
Read MoreThe central banks themselves are in trouble. The crisis that we now face is potentially a lot more severe than anything we have seen since the Wall Street crash in 1929 to 1932, and the aftermath of that in the 1930s. A quite sobering statement from our guest this week, Mr. Alasdair Macleod. Your host…
Read MoreThe markets are down over 20 percent this year, but it’s only the beginning according to our guest this week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio, Mr. Michael Oliver. “We’re talking about a 12-year plus bull market that went vertical on the S&P, sevenfold increase due to monetary policy and credit, and a 16-fold increase in…
Read MoreI think we’re going to have a lot of economic weakness now. But nothing as severe as the subprime mortgage collapse that we saw in 2008. That’s the forecast from this week’s guest on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio, Dr. A. Gary Shilling. Your host Dennis Tubbergen talks with Dr. Shilling about what he believes is…
Read MoreHistorically, residential real estate has to be priced at such a level that the average person can buy the average house and raise an average family in it, on the wages that are available within that particular area. It’s very local. An audience favorite, our guest this week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio is Karl…
Read MoreHas the mainstream media changed, or has technology provided the platform for a more democratized exchange of ideas, hence revealing the degree to which news has been crafted for public consumption? Your host, Dennis Tubbergen explores this question with our guest this week, Dr. Peter Jacobsen on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio. An intriguing conversation that…
Read MoreWhat the fed has to do is to sacrifice the currency to avoid a 1930s-style depression. They’re going to almost explicitly say, “We’re going to let the dollar fall as far as it has to fall. We’ve got to protect jobs, et cetera, et cetera. We can’t let the economy just go completely bust. So,…
Read MoreIf you look at the magnitude of the asset bubble that’s been inflating, the everything bubble, and then posit that any recession or pullback is going to be on the same order of magnitude as the bubble, this could get really bad. We could get into a really horrific drawdown in the markets. But even…
Read MoreWhile inflation of the current magnitude hasn’t been seen since the late 1970s and early 1980s, we’re not likely to see the type of response from the Fed, vis-à-vis Volker raising interest rates to 20%. This week’s guest on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio is Simon Popple, who points out that governments around the world have…
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