Retirement Lifestyle Advocates

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 with your host Dennis Tubbergen about these indicators and explains his forecast for the coming 1-2 years. Don’t m...

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 Special Edition of Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio, where he looks at the prospects for these two options, why each one is...

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 couldn’t handle, and attempted to inflate its way out of debt. Our guest th...

What 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 might do to preserve the wealth your have accumulated, and how to prepare for t...

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 104 percent, not 220 percent. Our guest this week, Mr. Michael Pento, talks with your host Dennis Tubbergen about the coming year and the likely burs...

The 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 risk and the periodic cyclica...

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 on this topic in his conversation with your host Dennis Tubbergen. Deflation, on the...

Many 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 and why a diversified portfolio that includes gold m...

"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 the quote from his recent article titled, “When Equality Becomes Evi...

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 about the state of the economy, inflation, and what lies ahead for stocks, bonds, and real estate markets. Dr. A. Gary Shilling is...

It'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 welcome back guest, John Rubino. Your host Dennis Tubbergen t...

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 been manipulating the CPI since the early 1980s to control the government’s liabilities, particularly to Socia...

“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 this week’s guest, Mr. Mark Jeftovic. Your host Dennis Tubbergen talks with Jeftovic about the future of crypto-currencies and gets his take on what’s...

“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 expert Mr. Murray Gunn. Join your host Dennis Tubbergen on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio where he and Gunn discu...

What made you think that the 50% rise in real estate actually had anything to do with real value? It did not. A very popular guest this week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio, Mr. Karl Denninger, talks with your host Dennis Tubbergen about the current recession, the Fed’s reaction, and the likely scenario for the years ahead. Mr. Denninger is certainly one of the hardest-working researchers...

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. No matter what Jerome Powell’s intentions are, even if he has the same fortitude as Volcker had in fighting inflation, he just doesn't have the tools. In fact, he has noth...

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 from this week’s guest, Dr. Robert McHugh. Join your host, Dennis Tubbergen on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio to hear Dr. McHugh’s forecast...

Interest rates going to be high in 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 only about his forecasts for commodities, but also wars, and climate change. Hold on to your seat, this is an episode you don’...

We have experienced the greatest financial bubble in history. Total financial assets in the world today are almost seven times, GDP at 95 trillion, it's about $660 trillion in financial assets. Our guest this week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio, Mr. Harry Dent says yes, we are in a recession, and it’s going to get much worse. Dent provides your host, Dennis Tubbergen with his forecast for...

The stock market today, at 170% of GDP, is not in any regards 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 with Pento about the comparison of today’s equites market to the 140% gap in the 2000 tech stock bubble,...

The Biden administration is bragging about all the great new jobs that are being created. However, when you compare that to the labor participation rates and worker population ratios, what you see is a dramatic fall in the sheer number of people who are working, or in the job market at all. Our guest this week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio is Jeffrey A. Tucker. In his conversation with T...

The central banks themselves are in trouble. The crisis that we now face is potentially a lot more severe than anything we have seen since the Wall Street crash in 1929 to 1932, and the aftermath of that in the 1930s. A quite sobering statement from our guest this week, Mr. Alasdair Macleod. Your host on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio, Dennis Tubbergen, talks with Macleod about what’s happen...

The markets are down over 20 percent this year, but it’s only the beginning according to our guest this week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio, Mr. Michael Oliver. “We're talking about a 12-year plus bull market that went vertical on the S&P, sevenfold increase due to monetary policy and credit, and a 16-fold increase in the Nasdaq-100. Those sort of bull markets you've never seen in the his...

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 the best and safest investment strategy in the months ahead. Dr. A. Gary Shillin...

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 this week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio is Karl Denninger. Karl points out that across the US, residential real estate is 50...