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Dr. Ron Paul, former congressman and three time presidential candidate.  Dennis chatted with Dr. Paul about his forecast for the US Dollar and his ideas on currency competition. He also got Dr. Paul’s take on the future for stocks and bonds. Of course, they also talked a little politics with the former congressman.  The conversation was very enlightening and one that you won’t want to miss.  Politician Ron Paul has served in the U.S. House of Representatives for Texas multiple times. His politics are a mix of Republican and Libertarian views. Leading libertarian politician Ron Paul started out in medicine. After graduating from Duke University's medical school in 1961, Ron Paul soon went on to become a military doctor. He served with the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. National Guard during the 1960s. Paul branched out into politics in the 1970s. Elected to represent Texas, he served in the House of Representatives from 1975 to 1976 and again from 1979 to 1984. Returning to the House again in 1997, Paul served eight more consecutive terms. He has run for president several times during his long political career, most recently as a candidate for the Republican nomination in 2012.

Mr. Jim Rogers, co-founder of the Quantum Fund with George Soros.  Mr. Rogers spoke with Dennis this past week from his home in Singapore and provided us with his valuable insights on the present health of the US stock markets, currencies, commodities and bonds. He was also kind enough to share some of his personal investment positions with our listeners. Jim Rogers has been a successful hedge fund manager, investor, traveler, writer, and regular media commentator. In the 1970s Jim Rogers co-found the Quantum Fund, a private investment partnership which invested in numerous investment vehicles, including commodity futures, and experienced superior returns over 10 years, leading to his "retirement" before age 40. Rogers has been chronicled in John Train's Money Masters of Our Time, Jack Schwager's Market Wizards, and other books. He is the successful author of A Gift to My Children (2009), A Bull in China (2007), Hot Commodities (2004), Adventure Capitalist (2003), and Investment Biker: Around the World with Jim Rogers (1995). Although Mr. Rogers' career spans over 40 years, during the last 27 years he has been semi-retired and traveling extensively around the world. During that period, he has been a regular commentator and columnist in various television and print media dealing with economic and world affairs; and is an occasional Visiting Professor at Columbia University.

Mr. Jim Rogers, co-founder of the Quantum Fund with George Soros.  Mr. Rogers spoke with Dennis this past week from his home in Singapore and provided us with his valuable insights on the present health of the US stock markets, currencies, commodities and bonds. He was also kind enough to share some of his personal investment positions with our listeners. Jim Rogers has been a successful hedge fund manager, investor, traveler, writer, and regular media commentator. In the 1970s Jim Rogers co-found the Quantum Fund, a private investment partnership which invested in numerous investment vehicles, including commodity futures, and experienced superior returns over 10 years, leading to his "retirement" before age 40. Rogers has been chronicled in John Train's Money Masters of Our Time, Jack Schwager's Market Wizards, and other books. He is the successful author of A Gift to My Children (2009), A Bull in China (2007), Hot Commodities (2004), Adventure Capitalist (2003), and Investment Biker: Around the World with Jim Rogers (1995). Although Mr. Rogers' career spans over 40 years, during the last 27 years he has been semi-retired and traveling extensively around the world. During that period, he has been a regular commentator and columnist in various television and print media dealing with economic and world affairs; and is an occasional Visiting Professor at Columbia University.

Host Dennis Tubbergen discusses forecasts for markets in detail with special guest Dr. A Gary Shilling. Dr. A. Gary Shilling is president of A. Gary Shilling & Co., a consultancy in Springfield, New Jersey. He is the author of “The Age of Deleveraging: Investment Strategies for a Decade of Slow Growth and Deflation.” Shilling earned his master’s degree and doctorate in economics at Stanford University. While on the West Coast, he served on the staffs of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and the Bank of America. Before establishing his own firm in 1978, Shilling was senior vice president and Chief Economist of White, Weld & Co. Earlier, he set up the Economics Department at Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith at age 29, and served as the firm’s first chief economist. He has been cited repeatedly by The Wall Street Journal as one of the top bond-market analysts and stock forecasters. Twice, a poll of financial institutions conducted by Institutional Investor magazine ranked Shilling as Wall Street’s top economist. Futures magazine also ranked him the country’s number one Commodity Trading Advisor. And in 2003, MoneySense ranked him as the third best stock market forecaster, behind Warren Buffett.

Host Dennis Tubbergen discusses forecasts for markets in detail with special guest Ian Gordon. A globally renowned economic forecaster, author and speaker, Ian Gordon is founder and chairman of the Longwave Group, which comprises two companies—Longwave Analytics and Longwave Strategies. The former specializes in Gordon’s ongoing study and analysis of the Longwave Principle originally expounded by Nikolai Kondratiev. With Longwave Strategies, Gordon assists select precious metal companies in financings. Educated in England, Gordon graduated from the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. After a few years serving as a platoon commander in a Scottish regiment, he moved to Canada in 1967 and entered the University of Manitoba’s History Department. Taking that step has had a profound impact because, during this period, he began to study the historical trends that ultimately provided the foundation for his Long Wave theory. Gordon has been publishing his Long Wave Analyst website since 1998

Guest expert Mr. Gerald Celente, publisher of the Trends Journal.  Mr. Celente provides his forecast for US stocks and makes a rather startling prediction as to the winning presidential ticket in the 2016 election. Dennis also discusses currency devaluation and how you and your portfolio may be affected. Gerald Celente is a United States trend forecaster and author, CEO of The Trends Research Institute founded in 1980, and publisher of the internationally circulated Trends Journal newsletter. As the director of Trends Research Institute, Celente is well-versed in the art of forecasting, tracking and analyzing data to project trends before they are popular. Prior to his current position, Celente was a Government Affairs Specialist and an Executive Assistant to the Secretary of the New York State Senate. He is also the author of ‘Trends 2000″ and ‘Trend Tracking: Far Better Than Mega Trends,” both of which discuss how to spot and capitalize on up-and-coming trends.

Guest expert Mr. Gerald Celente, publisher of the Trends Journal.  Mr. Celente provides his forecast for US stocks and makes a rather startling prediction as to the winning presidential ticket in the 2016 election. Dennis also discusses currency devaluation and how you and your portfolio may be affected. Gerald Celente is a United States trend forecaster and author, CEO of The Trends Research Institute founded in 1980, and publisher of the internationally circulated Trends Journal newsletter. As the director of Trends Research Institute, Celente is well-versed in the art of forecasting, tracking and analyzing data to project trends before they are popular. Prior to his current position, Celente was a Government Affairs Specialist and an Executive Assistant to the Secretary of the New York State Senate. He is also the author of ‘Trends 2000″ and ‘Trend Tracking: Far Better Than Mega Trends,” both of which discuss how to spot and capitalize on up-and-coming trends.

Guest expert Professor Peter H. Schuck. Mr. Schuck is a professor at Yale Law School, and his most recent book is titled "Why Government Fails So Often: And How It Can Do Better". Peter H. Schuck is the Simeon E. Baldwin Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale Law School, where he has held the chair since 1984. He has also served as Deputy Dean. His major fields of teaching and research are tort law; immigration, citizenship, and refugee law; groups, diversity, and law; and administrative law. His most recent books include Targeting in Social Programs: Avoiding Bad Bets, Removing Bad Apples; Meditations of a Militant Moderate: Cool Views on Hot Topics; Immigration Stories; Foundations of Administrative Law; Diversity in America: Keeping Government at a Safe Distance; and The Limits of Law: Essays on Democratic Governance. He is also co-editor, with James Q. Wilson, of Understanding America.

Guest expert Professor Peter H. Schuck. Mr. Schuck is a professor at Yale Law School, and his most recent book is titled "Why Government Fails So Often: And How It Can Do Better". Peter H. Schuck is the Simeon E. Baldwin Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale Law School, where he has held the chair since 1984. He has also served as Deputy Dean. His major fields of teaching and research are tort law; immigration, citizenship, and refugee law; groups, diversity, and law; and administrative law. His most recent books include Targeting in Social Programs: Avoiding Bad Bets, Removing Bad Apples; Meditations of a Militant Moderate: Cool Views on Hot Topics; Immigration Stories; Foundations of Administrative Law; Diversity in America: Keeping Government at a Safe Distance; and The Limits of Law: Essays on Democratic Governance. He is also co-editor, with James Q. Wilson, of Understanding America.

Guest expert Mr. Lawrence Reed, President of the Foundation for Economic Education. Lawrence W. Reed became president of the Foundation for Economic Education in 2008. He was a founder and president for twenty years of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Midland, Michigan. A champion for liberty, Reed has authored over 1,000 newspaper columns and articles, dozens of articles in magazines and journals in the U. S. and abroad, as well as five books. His articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, Baltimore Sun, Detroit News and Detroit Free Press, among many others. His interests in political and economic affairs have taken him as a freelance journalist to 81 countries on six continents. Lawrence W. Reed holds a B.A. degree in Economics from Grove City College (1975) and an M.A. degree in History from Slippery Rock State University (1978), both in Pennsylvania. In his spare-time interests include reading, travel, fly-fishing, hiking, skydiving, and animals of just about any kind.

Guest expert Mr. Lawrence Reed, President of the Foundation for Economic Education. Lawrence W. Reed became president of the Foundation for Economic Education in 2008. He was a founder and president for twenty years of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Midland, Michigan. A champion for liberty, Reed has authored over 1,000 newspaper columns and articles, dozens of articles in magazines and journals in the U. S. and abroad, as well as five books. His articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, Baltimore Sun, Detroit News and Detroit Free Press, among many others. His interests in political and economic affairs have taken him as a freelance journalist to 81 countries on six continents. Lawrence W. Reed holds a B.A. degree in Economics from Grove City College (1975) and an M.A. degree in History from Slippery Rock State University (1978), both in Pennsylvania. In his spare-time interests include reading, travel, fly-fishing, hiking, skydiving, and animals of just about any kind.

Best-selling author, Harry Dent.  He gets Mr. Dent’s take on China, Europe, and the future direction of the US stock markets Harry S. Dent, Jr. is the founder and President of the H. S. Foundation whose mission is “Helping People Understand Change”. Using exciting new research, developed from years of hands-on business experience, Mr. Dent offers a refreshingly positive and understandable view of the future. Harry has written numerous books over the years. In his book The Great Boom Ahead, published in 1992, he stood virtually alone in accurately forecasting the unanticipated boom of the 1990s. That same year he authored two consecutive best sellers: The Roaring 2000s and The Roaring 2000s Investor (Simon and Schuster). In The Next Great Bubble Boom, he offered a comprehensive forecast for the following two decades. In The Great Depression Ahead, he outlined how the next great downturn is likely to unfold in three stages, with an interim boom stage between 2012 and 2017 before the long-term slowdown finally turns into the next global boom in the early 2020s. In The Great Crash Ahead (2011), he outlined how the next great crash is likely to unfold in the coming months. He explained why there is nothing the government can do to protect us as deflation takes hold of the economy. He also recently finished his book, Spending Waves: The Scientific Key To Predicting Market Behavior for the Next 20 Years, an information-packed guide for any serious business owner. Mr. Dent's latest book, The Demographic Cliff – How to Survive and Prosper During the Great Deflation of 2014–2019, shows why we’re facing a “great deflation” after five years of stimulus — and what to do about it now.

Best-selling author, Harry Dent.  He gets Mr. Dent’s take on China, Europe, and the future direction of the US stock markets Harry S. Dent, Jr. is the founder and President of the H. S. Foundation whose mission is “Helping People Understand Change”. Using exciting new research, developed from years of hands-on business experience, Mr. Dent offers a refreshingly positive and understandable view of the future. Harry has written numerous books over the years. In his book The Great Boom Ahead, published in 1992, he stood virtually alone in accurately forecasting the unanticipated boom of the 1990s. That same year he authored two consecutive best sellers: The Roaring 2000s and The Roaring 2000s Investor (Simon and Schuster). In The Next Great Bubble Boom, he offered a comprehensive forecast for the following two decades. In The Great Depression Ahead, he outlined how the next great downturn is likely to unfold in three stages, with an interim boom stage between 2012 and 2017 before the long-term slowdown finally turns into the next global boom in the early 2020s. In The Great Crash Ahead (2011), he outlined how the next great crash is likely to unfold in the coming months. He explained why there is nothing the government can do to protect us as deflation takes hold of the economy. He also recently finished his book, Spending Waves: The Scientific Key To Predicting Market Behavior for the Next 20 Years, an information-packed guide for any serious business owner. Mr. Dent's latest book, The Demographic Cliff – How to Survive and Prosper During the Great Deflation of 2014–2019, shows why we’re facing a “great deflation” after five years of stimulus — and what to do about it now.

Dr. Carl Lane, author of “A Nation Wholly Free:  The Elimination of the National Debt in the Age of Jackson”.  Dennis talks with Professor Lane about US Government Debt and what it means for you and your money. CARL LANE is professor of history at Felician College in New Jersey. He received his Ph.D. in history from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His articles have appeared in William and Mary Quarterly,Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, and other publications. His article “The Elimination of the National Debt in 1835 and the Meaning of Jacksonian Democracy” in Essays in Economic and Business History won that journal’s James Soltow Award. He and his wife live in Montclair, New Jersey.

Dr. Carl Lane, author of “A Nation Wholly Free:  The Elimination of the National Debt in the Age of Jackson”.  Dennis talks with Professor Lane about US Government Debt and what it means for you and your money. CARL LANE is professor of history at Felician College in New Jersey. He received his Ph.D. in history from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His articles have appeared in William and Mary Quarterly,Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, and other publications. His article “The Elimination of the National Debt in 1835 and the Meaning of Jacksonian Democracy” in Essays in Economic and Business History won that journal’s James Soltow Award. He and his wife live in Montclair, New Jersey.