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The price action in financial markets has largely ignored fundamentals all year so far. Prices have pretty much been dictated by narrative and by technical analysis. Well, what are those telling us to expect from here for the remainder of the year? For answers, we turn to technical analyst Sven Henrick of NorthmanTrader.com, who is freshly returned from a sabbatical in the Scottish highlands. Foll...

As the market struggles to find momentum here, the question investors are wrestling with right now is: Will the rally resume? Or is it time to get out of the pool? Oxbow Advisors is a financial advisory firm that specializes in the needs of high net worth clients. I spoke a few weeks back with it's founder and CEO, Ted Oakley. Today, we have the good fortune of sitting down with Chance Finucane, O...

In the midst of the current slowdown in housing market, more scrutiny is falling on short term rentals. A booming real estate sector until recently, STRs are now feeling the pinch of higher input costs and higher mortgage rates, right as the wave of "revenge travel" unleashed post-COVID is appearing to abate. Calls for a correction, potentially even wash-out of these units, many of which were purc...

Stocks powered higher this week, shrugging off the recent sell-off. Is the rally back on? Portfolio manager Lance Roberts & Wealthion's host Adam Taggart discuss those developments in this week's Market Recap, along with: 1. Is the rally in stocks back on? 2. is the jobs market finally cracking? 3. Lance reacts to Luke Gromen's negative outlook for long duration US Treasury bonds 4. Student loans...

Macro analyst Stephanie Pomboy returns in this Part 2 of our interview with her, where she explains why she predicts a painful recession ahead as well as a substantial haircut -- possibly as much as 50% or more -- for financial assets in the coming year or so. ************************ At Wealthion, we show you how to protect and build your wealth by learning from the world’s top experts on finance...

There's a lot of disagreement right now about where the markets are headed. Much of Wall Street is hoping the rally from the first half of the year will re-ignite, and there's a fair amount of technical analysis suggesting it very well may. But more investors are starting to worry about the impact of today's bond yields. Suddenly, talk is everywhere about how high they are and fear is growing that...

Macro analyst Luke Gromen returns for Part 2 of our interview with him on the unfolding sovereign debt crisis & the likelihood of recession, which he sees as "inevitable" -- largely due to higher oil prices and the collapsing commercial real estate market. Luke also shares his outlook on which assets to consider holding in such an environment, as well as which ones to steer clear of. Follow Luke a...

America' is currently running an annual deficit at 9% of GDP. That's an extremely high percentage historically and we've practically never run a deficit this high with unemployment this low. We're essentially running a wartime deficit in a peacetime economy. And a big part of this deficit is the ballooning interest cost we're paying on servicing our national debt -- as interest rates have spiked f...

If you're a senior citizen, involved in caring for an aging parent, or have children of your own, having a solid End Of Life plan is a must. Yes, the process of building one can be emotionally-charged, which is why so many people avoid it. Which leads to confusion, hurt feelings and sub-optimal outcomes when death inevitably arrives. This free webinar from Certified Financial Planners Richard Ross...

Bond yields have been rising fast and suddenly, investors are starting to worry they'll go higher for longer than the market has been expecting. Is the long US Treasury trade too risky now? Or is this presenting an attractive buying opportunity? ************************ At Wealthion, we show you how to protect and build your wealth by learning from the world’s top experts on finance and money. Eac...

Up until recently, runaway inflation was all anyone could talk about. Suddenly, now everyone is fixating on the surge in bond yields, worried that they'll continue moving even higher. Have we made a permanent shift to an era of higher cost of capital that will constrain economic growth? Or is this spike in yields a transitory one? And those hoping for a Fed pivot & a return to lower interest rates...

Today we're going to look through the eyes of an experienced options trader to understand how these instruments are used both to hedge against downside risk as well as deliver outsized returns. Imran Lakha is the founder of Options Insight, and was put on my radar by Darius Dale after my excellent interview with him a few months back. Options trading volume has positively exploded higher in recent...

This is our latest monthly *live* Q&A with Wealthion's endorsed financial advisors -- John Llodra & Mike Preston from Harbor, Michael Lebowitz from RIA (Lance is away), and Jonathan Wellum from Canadian firm Rocklic Financial. We'll take as a many questions from the live audience as we can during this hour program. ************************ At Wealthion, we show you how to protect and build your we...

While stocks are in a pull-back and still like quite overvalued relative to bonds, bonds are looking historically undervalued here. Lance Roberts feels strongly enough about this that Wealthion is making this an official alert. Portfolio manager Lance Roberts & Wealthion's host Adam Taggart discuss those developments in this week's Market Recap, along with: 1. Is the pullback in stocks more likely...

Longtime "bond king" Bill Gross has revealed that he is bearish right now on both stocks AND bonds. For bonds, he believes yields will move higher still, largely due to the US' high degree of current deficit spending. And as for stocks, the equity risk premium is at a 15-year low, making stocks look dangerously overvalued. ************************************************* At Wealthion, we show you...

There's an old saying in investing: The market can stay irrational longer than you can remain solvent. Why is that? Well, it has a lot to do with how humans make decisions. It's not alway -- or even often -- rational. And today's expert, behavioral economist Peter Atwater, adjunct professor at William & Mary College, has long affirmed that changes in confidence consistently and predictably impact...

Today I have the pleasure of interviewing someone who does I what I do for a living: interviewing experts on money & the markets. Being in that position, you have the advantage of absorbing what the crowd of experts think & then processing all that data down into your own highly-informed view of where the economy & financial markets are headed. Michael Gayed is the only person I know who produces...

Here in mid-year 2023, the stock market is taking a pause after a surprise rally in stocks & bonds that practically no one saw coming back in January. Will the market strength continue during the second half of the year? Or may we have other surprises in store? To discuss, we welcome financial advisor Jonathan Wellum back to the program. He's founder and CEO of Rocklinc Investment Partners, Wealth...

Welcome to Wealthion. I'm Wealthion founder Adam Taggart, here with something outside our normal routine. I’m going to react to a new song that has exploded virally over the past few days & explain why it may be an important milestone indicating where the economy – and society – are heading. The song is by Oliver Anthony, who was an unknown singer/songwriter up until just a few days ago. He wrote...

Stocks & bonds continued to decline this week, with both stocks and bonds lower, and daily rallies failing into the close. Portfolio manager Lance Roberts & Wealthion's host Adam Taggart discuss those developments in this week's Market Recap, along with: 1. Is a 3-10% pullback in stocks now underway? 2. What are we learning about the health of corporate American now that more earnings are coming i...

Spiking debt, sky-high deficits and threats to the US dollar are proliferating. Wealthion host Adam Taggart talks with the lead financial advisors at New Harbor Financial about what's likely to come next. ************************************************* At Wealthion, we show you how to protect and build your wealth by learning from the world’s top experts on finance and money. Each week we add ne...

I'm Wealthion founder Adam Taggart, here with a brief explainer video for you on the topic of stealth liquidity. This topic is important because it helps explain why 2023 is unfolding, to the confusion of many analysts, to be the "Year Of The Recession That Wasn’t" Heading into this year from the unrelenting beating for stocks and bonds that was 2022, the vast majority of economic forecasters pred...

We talk frequently on this channel of the dangerous and worsening wealth gap between the rich and the rest of society. If as a regular individual investor you feel the playing field of today's financial system is unfairly tilted away from your interests and towards those of the already-wealthy, today's expert would say you're absolutely right. To delve into this topic more deeply, we sit down with...

Macro analyst Stephanie Pomboy returns as a guest host on Wealthion to interview currency expert James Rickards about the highly-anticipated announcement of a new commodity-backed trading currency by the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa + a number of other resource-producing countries) Collectively, these countries has as much or more land, population, GDP, nuclear weapo...

Stocks & bonds both declined this week as more earnings announcements came in and Fitch made a surprise downgrade of America's credit rating. Portfolio manager Lance Roberts & Wealthion's host Adam Taggart discuss those developments in this week's Market Recap, along with: 1. Is a 3-10% pullback in stocks now underway? 2. What are we learning about the health of corporate American now that more ea...