Many exchange-traded funds, ETFs, are issued by big investment banks, where the level of derivative exposure to counterparty risk is exponentially greater than at the time of the Lehman failure. Our guest this week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio is Simon Popple. Your host, Dennis Tubbergen talks with Popple about the risks in the market…
Read More“Memorize the following line, teach it to your children, and shout it from the rooftops. It’s one of the most important truths you’ll ever learn or teach. Free people are not equal and equal people are not free”. Today on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio your host, Dennis Tubbergen talks with economics expert Larry Reed about…
Read MoreHousing prices are really just starting to crack, but I think we could see a 15-20% decline in housing prices over the next three or four quarters. This week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio, our guest, Dr. A. Gary Shilling talks with your host Dennis Tubbergen about the state of the economy, inflation, and what…
Read MoreIt’s a mess, our policymakers have screwed up on a scale that historians are going to have a field day with. And we right now are living through the consequences of those screwups. There’s very little politically that can be done, the problems themselves are mathematically unsolvable. This week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio we…
Read MoreIf accurately reported, that is calculating the Consumer Price Index using the same formula that was used prior to 1982, inflation is approaching 20 percent. Our guest this week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates is John Williams who tells your host, Dennis Tubbergen how the government has been manipulating the CPI since the early 1980s to…
Read More“The dollar is going to suck the liquidity out of all of the other fiat currencies and all the weaker currencies are going to fall against the dollar. And then the US dollar itself starts to implode and just crashes into a crater”. The forecast from this week’s guest, Mr. Mark Jeftovic. Your host Dennis…
Read More“There’s nothing in our pattern recognition analysis that tells us that there’s an end to this downtrend anytime soon. Another 20 percent drop in the market indices over the next couple of months would not be surprising”. A near-term forecast from our guest this week, socionomics expert Mr. Murray Gunn. Join your host Dennis Tubbergen…
Read MoreWhat made you think that the 50% rise in real estate actually had anything to do with real value? It did not. A very popular guest this week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio, Mr. Karl Denninger, talks with your host Dennis Tubbergen about the current recession, the Fed’s reaction, and the likely scenario for the…
Read MoreIn the 1970s, when Paul Volcker was cranking up interest rates to kill off inflation, he could do that because the size of the federal debt was only about 30% of the GDP at the time. Today, the federal debt is about 130% of GDP. No matter what Jerome Powell’s intentions are, even if he…
Read MoreBy the time this recession/depression is over, which could be 3-5 years from now, the industrials will be below 5,000. That’s how bad it’s going to be as this thing deepens. And the S&P will be finding itself back down below 600. The forecast for stocks from this week’s guest, Dr. Robert McHugh. Join your…
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