
I 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…
Read MoreWe’re in a hyperinflation. The Fed is overreacting. Supply is not increasing. The government’s economic policies are not aimed at increasing supplies. Instead, their goal is to tame inflation by destroying wealth and thereby dampening demand. Our guest this week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio is technical analyst, Dr. Robert McHugh. Your host Dennis Tubbergen…
Read MoreWe’re at the top of a 30-year Supercycle in the markets; eerily reminiscent of the roaring 1920s. Is a deflationary period like that of the 1930s imminent? This week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates your host Dennis Tubbergen will explore this question with our guest, Murray Gunn. Tune in to get Murray’s forecast for the markets…
Read MoreThis week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio, your host Dennis Tubbergen visits again with cycles expert Dr. Charles Nenner, who tells us that we have entered the next 30-year cycle of inflation and high-interest rates. Dr. Nenner says that while the central banks don’t appear to know what they are doing or how they’ll ultimately…
Read More“The government should quit monkeying with the economy like they’re God; they don’t understand it. They don’t even understand the demographics behind it, and the productivity behind it, and what causes it to go up and down. They just think interest rates are the biggest driver, which shows how clueless they are”. That quote is…
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