Straight Talk Wealth Radio

Every day hard working people are fleeced out of their hard earned savings by smartly honed, if not often dishonest sales pitchmen. In this episode Bruce gives you the insider's look at how financial advisers are actually trained to sell and propagandized.

How could the real estate market in only 4 essential states in the US have caused the Global Meltdown of 2008?  How could an over-inflated stock market in the US in 1929 have caused the worldwide Great Depression of the 1930's? How is it that small bubbles in any asset base can take down an entire global system?  It only really happens when the banking system buys into the bubble, and then gr...

When was the last time your financial adviser suggested that you also consult with other advisers? Ludicrous, right? Well, on this show we follow the money! Learn who's interests come first, - yours or your adviser's revenue stream? Learn to tell the difference between propaganda & sales pitches, from real analysis and evaluation. And better, learn how it can in fact be very feasible...

in 2013 Berkshire Hathaway bought a an asset worth $300 million. Their cost? $60 million! Do you think just maybe Warren Buffett wouldn't like to do that all day long? By the way, any changes in the stock market, the real estate market, or the gold market will not change the outcome of this investment one single iota! It is a true non-correlated asset class, and is in fact maybe the very best...

There's a story going around the internet. It's saying that China has secretly amassed thousands of TONS of gold. They're buying gold mines, gold exchanges, gold stocks and gold bullion for reasons that will be so detrimental to the Dollar, that it will literally destroy the dollar as the World Reserve Currency. In this program Bruce explores the validity of the story with economist...

Despite historically unprecedented money printing, the real US economy remains sluggish and deflationary. However, stocks are great! IS there a stock bubble today, that is by and large stimulus driven? Based on this uncertain outcome, the rest of the world has written it's playbook as well. Will the Central Banks of the world save economic life as we know it on Earth, or destroy our globalize...

Did you know Japan also had a Baby Boom? It just happened to be about 20 years ahead of us. Remember when Japan was supposedly going to be buying all of California in the late 1980's? What happened? Why did their economy retreat on the world stage? You've heard Bruce declare it before. DEMOGRAPHICS! Today, Japan produces 1.4 children for every couple. It's population is literally sh...

Is Congress insane, or is the social veneer that keeps everything seem mild, finally starting to crack in this country? Is this war of polarized ideas as bad as it gets, or is it just the beginning of a greater conflict? In this show, Bruce declares that the political polarization is only a faint reflection of the much bigger war of economic ideas that very few politicians even realize that they a...

The greatest economic experiment in the history of the Western World has just taken place. To save the Global Economy from total cataclysmic collapse the governments of the world have printed more money out of whole cloth than has ever been imagined before. The results? $2 TRILLION in Stimulus (money printing) for $300 Billion Growth. Can this go on forever? Will the economy propel forward from he...

The greatest economic experiment in the history of the Western World has just taken place. To save the Global Economy from total cataclysmic collapse the governments of the world have printed more money out of whole cloth than has ever been imagined before. The results? $2 TRILLION in Stimulus (money printing) for $300 Billion Growth. Can this go on forever? Will the economy propel forward from he...

The greatest economic experiment in the history of the Western World has just taken place. To save the Global Economy from total cataclysmic collapse the governments of the world have printed more money out of whole cloth than has ever been imagined before. The results? $2 TRILLION in Stimulus (money printing) for $300 Billion Growth. Can this go on forever? Will the economy propel forward from he...

The greatest economic experiment in the history of the Western World has just taken place. To save the Global Economy from total cataclysmic collapse the governments of the world have printed more money out of whole cloth than has ever been imagined before. The results? $2 TRILLION in Stimulus (money printing) for $300 Billion Growth. Can this go on forever? Will the economy propel forward from he...

WALL STREET JOURNAL REPORTS - The International Monetary Fund pronounces, (despite their best efforts) that the world needs to brace for ANOTHER soon-to-come recession! WHAT? Haven't the Central Banks of the world committed to printing enough fiat money to keep us all out of this abyss? No! In fact, the WSJ report actually enlarges on the fact that it was the very fixes by Central Banks (ECB,...

Sept, 25, 2012 - Wall Street Journal Reports, "Home prices notched their strongest year-to-date gains since 2005, climbing 5.9% through July and signaling the housing market's steady trudge toward recovery."Could it be that it's time for investors to jump back in to real estate? In this episode of Straight Talk Wealth Bruce interviews two outstanding guests on the matter:Econom...

General Motors' employees have a problem. A BIG problem. In this show, What's Wrong with Annuities? host Bruce Weide explores the pros and cons of Guaranteed Income vs. Managed Income in retirement for working American Baby Boomers, and why literally more than 35 billion dollars of GM and Ford obligations are set to move out of the hands of Wall Street money managers, over to the America...

Clearly, the world's sovereign governments are either bursting with debt now, or they are frantically absorbing the debt liabilities of their private sectors, or even other countries. Understandably, mindful people are today speculating what could happen if major European countries, and yes...the US eventually simply can not pay their debt obligations and the World goes BANKRUPT! The most com...

We KNOW that governments around the world are over-indebted. We KNOW some very big governments are going to default this decade. So how could the flight to gold NOT be the answer? In this exclusive interview with Straight Talk Wealth Host, Bruce Weide, Mr. Dent discusses the realtionship between $20 trillion in private sector debt that he expoects to burst in the next few years as opposed to appro...

Harry Dent is interviewed by STW Host Bruce Weide regarding Dents recent claim that the Global governments and banks are in a deviant collusion to create a false global economy and artificially low interest rates that will soon have its day of reckoning on the global economy,.

In this episode Bruce explores whether it is possible to trust Wall Street anymore, in the light of blatant manipulation by too-big-to-fail global banks, in collusion with governments around the world. Sound like harsh words. Bruce's lays out the actual facts in this show.

How old will you live to be? That is the million dollar question. With people living longer and the advances in medical technology, how can you plan your retirement and guarantee that you will have enough money to last you the rest of your life? Imagine you are retiring next year. Is your retirement income guaranteed to increase with inflation? Will you even be able to live on what you make today...

Just your luck. You've been trying to save for retirement or just build wealth over the last 12 years, and you couldn't have picked aworse time. Consider the challenges we've faced as an economy: * The bursting of the Tech Bubble in 2000 * The terrorist attacks of 9/11 * The housing boom of 2003-2007, followed by the biggest bust since the Great Depression * The continuing repercuss...

Despite all appearances, the global financial markets are NOT coming to an apocalyptic collapse! Yes, there WILL be a new day dawning! The problem is that it may take until the end of this decade. In this show, Bruce extensively discusses the Seasons of the Economy, coming full cycle about every 40 years. FIND OUT: * How will we get through this global winter (If governments stopped trying to reve...

This is the entire interview uncut with Harry S. Dent that Bruce conducted in the course of editing the broadcast show. Get the whole enchilada on what Harry Dent had to day, right here!

In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world. - Barack Obama - European government and private debt is on an unsustainable andunsolvable path. Now, after northern European countries (namely Germany) have spent billions and billions of Euros to save Greece, (who just elected a new government that will tell their lenders to "take a hike"), there...

In this show Bruce reviews two critical governmental reports from the General Accountability Office (GAO) , and the President's Council of Economic Advisers which are sounding major alarms about the Baby Boomer Generation's unpreparedness for retirement in the next 10-20 years in America. The reports cover the 5 Major Risks to retirement that, according to the government, will change eve...