Posts Tagged ‘Federal Reserve’
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 – 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 – Alasdair Macleod 07-30-2023
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript The BRICS countries have convened a summit set to begin next month on August 22, at which it’s anticipated that they will announce a new gold-backed trade settlement currency. A very popular guest, Mr. Alasdair Macleod, joins your host Dennis Tubbergen on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio…
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 – Dr. Robert McHugh 6-04-2023
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript The Great Depression of the 1930s was a Supercycle wave four down. So, this is a level higher or worse than that, and that’s what’s just starting. It’ll probably last at least 10 years, maybe more, and it’s going to do a lot of damage and…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – Kerry Lutz 5-28-2023
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript With 1.5 trillion dollars worth of commercial mortgages coming due and interest rates rising, are we likely to see a similar crisis in real estate like the residential crisis in 2008? First-time guest on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio, Mr. Kerry Lutz tells your host Dennis Tubbergen…
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 – 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 – Karl Denninger 12-11-2022
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript The 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…
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 Rubino 07-03-2022
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript What 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…
Read MoreRLA Expert Interview – A. Gary Shilling 03-27-2022
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript Our guest this week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio is Forbes columnist, Dr. A Gary Shilling. In his conversation with your host Dennis Tubbergen, he said, “We are going to see a lot more weakness in housing. It’s already started. If you look at existing-home sales…
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 – 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…
Read MoreRLA Special Report – Dennis Tubbergen 12-05-2021
Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript When it comes to managing the federal budget, government officials only have three choices. These are the same three choices that governments through the world and through the centuries have always had; raise taxes, cut spending, or debase the currency (print money). Join your host Dennis Tubbergen…
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