Posts Tagged ‘Federal Reserve’
2023-05-07 Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio w/ Michael Pento
The problem in the banking system is pretty simple, for ten out of the last fourteen years, mortgage rates have been well below the effective Fed funds rate today, which is 5.1%. So, bank assets are yielding very, very low-income streams to banks. Alternatively, you can go out right now and get over 5% on…
Read More2023-04-30 Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio w/ John Rubino
The money supply is shrinking. For the first time since the early 70’s, the FED is shrinking the US money supply; and it’s going down pretty dramatically. Sometime in the next year, the government’s going to be confronted with a dilemma: does it ramp up the money supply at the cost of possibly reigniting inflation…
Read More2023-04-16 Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio w/ Alasdair Macleod
When you look at the FDIC insurance programs that insure bank deposits, the deposit insurance reserve fund has about 170 billion in it to ensure $11 trillion of bank deposits. However, the idea that the insurance fund is there just to protect small depositors is very misleading. The primary duty of a modern central bank…
Read More2023-04-09 Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio w/ Karl Denninger
The dislocation impact of excess currency creation has the currency markets in an extreme situation, such that the U.S. can no longer export our inflation. We’re likely to be much worse off than in 2008. Our guest this week, Mr. Karl Denninger, explains what’s happening with the US dollar and provides his take on the…
Read More2023-03-26 Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio w/ Dr. A. Gary Shilling
“Bank regulators were really asleep at the switch. They had all the red flags for Silicon Valley Bank back in 2019. They raised concerns, but they never forced any actions. The rating agencies were asleep at the switch as well. They were rating Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank as investment grade securities right up…
Read More2023-01-29 Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio w/ Dr. Robert McHugh
While the current economy may seem to be stabilizing, and that’s certainly what the mainstream media would have you believe, the long-term trend is still extremely bearish, with indicators still pointing to a drop of 80-90% in the markets. Our guest this week, Dr. Robert McHugh, talks with your host Dennis Tubbergen about these indicators…
Read More2023-01-22 Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio w/ Dennis Tubbergen
There are but two possible policy decisions that the Federal Reserve could make at this point, and today we’ll explore the economic outcomes that will follow depending on which course of action the Fed would decide to follow. Join your host Dennis Tubbergen on this week’s Special Edition of Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio, where he…
Read More2023-01-15 Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio w/ Brien Lundin
The first thing that people need to realize is none of what’s happening in today’s economy is new. This is a scenario that’s played out many times over human history. In fact, every civilization, and every government throughout human history has always reached a point where it has overspent its means, created debts that it…
Read More2022-12-25 Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio w/ Michael Pento
The valuation of equities was 220% of the underlying economy at the start of this year. That is light years ahead of any other metric, any other reading on that ratio in history. By comparison, at the start of the Great Recession, that ratio was just 104 percent, not 220 percent. Our guest this week,…
Read More2022-12-18 Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio w/ Alasdair Macleod
The systemic risks, particularly from foreign banking networks like the Eurozone and Japan, which are very highly leveraged, are very, very substantial. And with contracting bank credit, they merely get heightened. This summary is from our guest this week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates, Mr. Alasdair Macleod. Your host Dennis Tubbergen, talks with Macleod about this…
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