RLA 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…

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RLA Expert Interview – Michael Pento 12-25-2022

Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript     The 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…

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RLA 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…

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RLA 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,…

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RLA 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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RLA Expert Interview – Michael Pento 06-27-2021

Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript  “…even Bloomberg (News) now is saying that (Federal Reserve Chairman) Mr. Powell is making stuff up,” as stated by our guest this week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio, Mr. Michael Pento. Your host, Dennis Tubbergen and Mr. Pento discuss the root cause of today’s inflation and his…

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RLA Expert Interview – Michael Pento 02-21-2021

Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript  “You don’t have to look any further than the Federal Reserve, the disgusting institution that used to be in the business of bailing out banks on the margins if they had some bad debt they had to bring to the discount window. Now the Fed controls everything.…

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RLA Expert Interview – Michael Pento 09-20-2020

Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript If the U.S. Government measured inflation correctly, it would probably be closer to 8% than the 2% they project.  The dollar is at risk of losing reserve currency status and banks are at risk of collapse under weight of over $7 trillion worth of junk bonds and…

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RLA Expert Interview – Michael Pento 04-12-2020

Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript  Are we nationalizing the private investment market?  For the first time, since the inception of the Federal Reserve in 1913, they are actually buying corporate debt in the primary market.  This week’s guest on Retirement Advocates Radio, Mr. Michael Pento talks with Host Dennis Tubbergen about the…

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RLA Expert Interview – Michael Pento 09-08-2019

Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript  The last recession was preceded by a $1.5 trillion dollar sub-prime mortgage bubble.  Today we have a  $17 trillion dollar negative-yielding global sovereign debt bubble.  When will it burst? And what will the impact on the global and US economy be?  Listen in to the conversation on…

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RLA EXPERT INTERVIEW – MICHAEL PENTO 03-17-2019

Click Here to Download and Read the Transcript On this week’s program, host Dennis Tubbergen interviews Mr. Michael Pento. Michael is the president and founder of Pento Portfolio Strategies and author of the new book The Coming Bond Market Collapse. Today’s discussion centers on the central banks around the world, the low-interest rate corner they…

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