Posts Tagged ‘inflation’
RLA Special Report – Dennis Tubbergen 09-24-2023
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript US Government debt has surpassed the $33 trillion dollar mark. Add to that the unfunded liabilities of Social Security and Medicare, and you get an unfathomable $200 trillion dollar plus problem. Once again, on this week’s Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio program, your host, Dennis Tubbergen, is…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – Kevin Demeritt 09-17-2023
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript Historically, the life span of a world reserve currency is about 80-100 years. So, it’s no surprise that the BRICS countries, who now represent over 40% of the world population and oil production, would be working together to replace the US Dollar with a new trade…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – John Rubino 09-10-2023
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript All the leading indicators, and all other indicators that have heretofore marked the onset of economic recession, suggest that 2024 could be a rough year. Our guest on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio this week, John Rubino, talks with your host, Dennis Tubbergen, about his thoughts on…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – Karl Denninger 08-27-2023
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript The housing market is locked up. People who have 3% mortgages cannot move except under extreme duress because a new mortgage is 7%. And the price of the average house has doubled. As a result, the payment’s gone up by 40%. People don’t have that. They…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – Dr. A. Gary Shilling 08-20-2023
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript The US economy appears to be driven by two forces; the Federal Reserve, which is raising interest rates in an attempt to get inflation back to its 2 percent target, and the investors who have thus far been able to maintain the status quo on employment…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – Michael Oliver 08-06-2023
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript The Central Bank has allowed you to hallucinate and make investment-grade decisions on a micro and a macro level based on a false assumption. And when they decided to unwind that process in March of last year and start raising rates from next to zero up…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – Dr. Charles Nenner 07-02-2023
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript The situation that happened in the crash of 1929 was because nine out of 10 cycles stopped together, and you have the same situation occurring again in 2026, 2027. So that is really going to be a terrible situation. Our guest on this week’s episode of…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – Karl Denninger 06-25-2023
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript The Fed has raised interest rates, but what the Fed has not managed to do is get Congress to cut out or curtail spending in any meaningful way. We had about a 4 trillion-dollar federal budget prior to COVID, now over 6 trillion. That’s a 50%…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – Simon Popple 6-11-2023
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript You can print currency, but you can’t print gold, and you can’t print other commodities either. Our guest this week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio is Simon Popple. He shares his thoughts with your host Dennis Tubbergen about the banking sector issues, the likelihood of continued…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – Harry Dent 5-21-2023
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript The everything-bubble is now beginning to burst. In the next 12-18 months, we’ll see more bank failures and significant downturns in stocks, bonds, real estate, etc. Our guest this week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio, Harry Dent, tells us to get out of the markets now. If…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – Michael Pento 5-07-2023
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript 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…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – John Rubino 04-30-2023
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript The money supply is shrinking. For the first time since the early 70s, 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…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – Alasdair Macleod 04-16-2023
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript 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…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – Karl Denninger 04-09-2023
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript 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…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – Dr. A. Gary Shilling 03-26-2023
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript “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…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – Egon von Greyerz 03-19-2023
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript Global debt is around 300 trillion today. At the beginning of this century, it was just under 100 trillion, and it’s gone up three times just in the last 20 years. And over the last 10 years, there’s been a massive growth in derivatives, now estimated…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – Dr. Charles Nenner 02-05-2023
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript It’s going to be very difficult times. Inflation is going up for the next 30 years. And interest rates will be higher for the next 30 years. According to our guest this week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio, Dr.Charles Nenner. In his conversation with your host,…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – Dr. Robert McHugh 01-29-2023
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript 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…
Read MoreRLA Special Report – Dennis Tubbergen 01-22-2023
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript 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…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – Brien Lundin 01-15-2023
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript 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…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – Simon Popple 11-27-2022
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript Many exchange-traded funds, ETF’s, 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…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – Dr. A. Gary Shilling 11-13-2022
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript Housing 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…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – John Williams 10-30-2022
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript If 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…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – Mark Jeftovic 10-23-2022
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript “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…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – Murray Gunn 10-16-2022
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript “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…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – Brien Lundin 09-25-2022
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript In 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.…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – Dr. Robert McHugh 09-18-2022
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript By 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…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – Dr. Charles Nenner 09-11-2022
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript Interest rates going to be high and inflation could last for the next 30 years. Incredible as it sounds, that’s the forecast from our guest this week, Dr. Charles Nenner, renowned expert in the psychology of cycles. Your host, Dennis Tubbergen, talks with Dr. Nenner not…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – Michael Pento 08-28-2022
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript 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…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – Dr. A. Gary Shilling 07-24-2022
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript 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…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – Karl Denninger 07-17-2022
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript Historically, 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…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – Simon Popple 06-12-2022
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript While 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,…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – Dr. Robert McHugh 06-05-2022
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript We’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…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – Dr. Charles Nenner 05-22-2022
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript This 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…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – Harry Dent 05-15-2022
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript “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, the productivity behind it, and what causes it to go up and down. They just think interest rates are the biggest driver, which shows…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – Michael Pento 04-17-2022
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript Inflation is much higher than the government reports it. CPI is at 8.5%, producer prices up 11.2% year-over-year, import prices up 12.5% year-over-year, and if you look at reality, rents, the cost of buying a new house, the cost of beef, the cost of energy, year-over-year,…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – Alasdair McLeod 04-10-2022
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript All indications show we are heading toward a worldwide hyperinflationary environment; something we’ve never experienced before. Your host Dennis Tubbergen has invited guest Alasdair McLeod back to this week’s Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio show to get his thoughts on the events happening in world currency markets that…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – Michael Oliver 03-21-2022
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript “We’re in a historic time in markets, we’re about to see events that few have anticipated.” Our guest this week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio is the brilliant market analyst, Michael Oliver. Your host Dennis Tubbergen talks with Oliver about how the extraordinary increase in money…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – John Rubino 03-06-2022
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript We’re in the danger zone. The magic number for the 10-year treasury yield that we can’t go beyond is probably a little bit lower than it was in 2018. We can’t go much beyond that without the economy just tanking. And we are really not that…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – Murray Gunn 01-23-2022
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript No matter what they say, the Federal Reserve is actually pleased to see consumer price inflation so high because it’s one way of deflating the debt. Chances of success are, however, doubtful, according to this week’s guest, Murray Gunn, as bond markets are already demanding higher interest…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – Harry Dent 01-09-2022
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript Could we be looking at the peak in the markets? Many have been forecasting a market crash for years that the Fed has so far been able to forestall through money printing. Our guest this week, economic cycles expert Mr. Harry Dent, says that both the generation…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – Alasdair Macleod 12-26-2021
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript The has long ago adopted a policy of supporting financial assets in order to maintain economic confidence. Now they’ve suggested that they’re going to wind down the $120 billion in monthly QE by March or April of 2022. Our guest this week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – Michael Pento 12-19-2021
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript Inflation is now running at three and a half times higher than the Fed’s target rate of 2 percent. The Fed is clearly worried about this, and now appears poised to announce a doubling of the tapering at next week’s FOMC meeting in an effort to get…
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