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 MoreWhat would you sell if you knew that the next two years would be the worst economic correction in our lifetimes? Our guest this week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio is none other than demographics expert, Mr. Harry Dent. Your host, Dennis Tubbergen talks with Dent about his forecast for the year ahead, what you…
Read MoreThe 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 MoreThe 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…
Read MoreThe Federal Reserve is not likely to return to Quantitative Easing, creating dollars that is because that will stoke hyperinflation. The problem with hyperinflation is that hyperinflation reliably destroys governments, and that means them. Our guest this week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates makes a good argument on this topic in his conversation with your host…
Read MoreMany 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…
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