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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 nothing he can really do. Our guest this week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio is Brien Lundin. Join your host, Dennis Tubbergen, as he and Brien discuss the fate of the dollar as the reserve currency, an international return to a gold standard, and the current state of world markets. Brien Lundin is the President and CEO of Jefferson Financial, editor and publisher of Gold Newsletter, a publication that has ranked among the world’s leading precious metals and resource stock advisories since 1971 and is also the host of the famed New Orleans Investment Conference, the world’s oldest and most respected gold investment event. To learn more about the Gold Newsletter, visit www.goldnewsletter.com, and to learn more about the New Orleans Investment Conference, visit www.neworleansconference.com. To learn more about Retirement Lifestyle Advocates, please visit our website at www.RetirementLifestyleAdvocates.com.

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 for commodities, labor, and the economy. Robert McHugh, Ph.D. is President and Chief Executive Officer of Main Line Investors, Inc., and the proprietor of the Technical Indicator Index. He has testified before the U.S. Congress on Federal Reserve matters and is the author of “The Coming Economic Ice Age, Five Critical Steps to Survive and Prosper”. For information about Dr. Robert McHugh, please visit his website at www.technicalindicatorindex.com, or visit http://bit.ly/TheComingEconomicIceAge to get a copy of his best-selling book “The Coming Economic Ice Age”. For more information about Retirement Lifestyle Advocates, please visit www.RetirementLifestyleAdvocates.com.

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’t want to miss. Dr. Charles Nenner’s career is truly impressive: he earned a medical degree from the University of Amsterdam in 1984 prior to embarking on a long and distinguished career as a financial consultant, researcher, and analyst. He has worked for Windsor NY, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Rabobank International, and Ofek Securities in Tel Aviv. You can get a free 30-day trial subscription to Dr. Nenner's uncannily accurate daily research reports, plus articles, podcasts, and more at www.CharlesNenner.com. For more information about Retirement Lifestyle Advocates, please visit www.RetirementLifestyleAdvocates.com.

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 stocks, and real estate markets which he predicts will bottom in late 2023 or early 2024. It’s an enlightening conversation you don’t want to miss. Harry Dent is internationally recognized for the accuracy of his economic forecasts and is the author of the #1 best-selling book, Zero Hour. He’s appeared on “Good Morning America,” PBS, CNBC, CNN, and Fox News. He’s been featured in Barron’s, Investor’s Business Daily, Entrepreneur, Fortune, Success, U.S. News and, World Report, Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, American Demographics, and Omni. He is a regular guest on Fox Business’s “America’s Nightly Scorecard.” To learn more about Harry Dent and subscribe to his free newsletter, please visit https://harrydent.com/. To learn more about Retirement Lifestyle Advocates, please visit our website at www.RetirementLifestyleAdvocates.com.

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, and the 104% gap in the 2008 real estate bubble, and the potential for a deflationary depression. Michael Pento is the President and Founder of Pento Portfolio Strategies with more than 27 years of investment experience. He was the portfolio creator and consultant to Delta/Claymore's commodity portfolios that raised more than $3 billion, distributed through Claymore/Guggenheim's sales network. He produces the weekly podcast “The Mid-Week Reality Check” and is the author of the book “The Coming Bond Market Collapse.” For more information about our guest Mr. Michael Pento, please visit http://pentoport.com. For more information about Retirement Lifestyle Advocates, please visit www.RetirementLifestyleAdvocates.com.

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 Tucker, your host, Dennis Tubergen explores what’s happened to the labor market, the CDC admits they were wrong, and the fundamental, foundational changes needed to restore liberty and freedom in the US. Jeffrey A. Tucker is the Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and ten books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of Mises. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. https://www.amazon.com/Liberty-Lockdown-Jeffrey-Tucker/dp/1630692123. For more information about our guest Mr. Jeffrey A. Tucker, please visit https://brownstone.org. For more information about Retirement Lifestyle Advocates, please visit https://retirementlifestyleadvocates.com.

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 happening at the central banks and the potential outcomes that lay ahead. Alasdair Macleod is the head of research at Gold Money Holding, a well-respected author, and a noted expert in world economics. Mr. Macleod has been a celebrated stockbroker and Member of the London Stock Exchange for over four decades. His experience encompasses equity and bond markets, fund management, corporate finance, and investment strategy. To learn more about this week’s guest Mr. Alasdair Macleod, please visit https://www.goldmoney.com. To learn more about Retirement Lifestyle Advocates, please visit our website at www.RetirementLifestyleAdvocates.com.

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 history of the United States. Your host Dennis Tubbergen talks with Mr. Oliver about the markets, and why gold doesn’t behave like other commodities. Michael Oliver has been studying markets for over four decades, but it was the 1987 stock market crash that became his “aha!” moment and converted him to what he calls “momentum structural analysis.” Mr. Oliver is the CEO of Momentum Structural Analysis LLC based in Greensboro, North Carolina. He is also the author of The New Libertarianism: Anarcho-Capitalism. Since 1992 Momentum Structural Analysis has provided unique technical research to the financial industry - banks, RIAs, hedge funds, and mutual funds - as well as to individual investors. To learn more about this week’s guest Mr. Michael Oliver, please visit https://www.olivermsa.com/. To learn more about Retirement Lifestyle Advocates, please visit our website at www.RetirementLifestyleAdvocates.com.

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 Shilling is an American financial analyst and commentator who appears on a regular basis in publications such as Forbes magazine, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. He is also the author of the monthly newsletter INSIGHT, and the book “The Age of Deleveraging”. You can get a free copy of the INSIGHT newsletter by calling 888-346-7444. For more information about our guest, Dr. Gary Shilling, please visit www.agaryshilling.com. To learn more about Retirement Lifestyle Advocates, please visit www.RetirementLifestyleAdvocates.com.

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 50-80 percent overvalued now. Meaning that one of two things has to happen; average wages increase, or home values decrease. Your host, Dennis Tubbergen, talks with Karl about real estate, energy, labor, and much more. Listen now! Mr. Karl Denninger is an American technology businessman, finance blogger, author, and political activist, sometimes referred to as a founding member of the Tea Party movement. Mr. Denninger is the author of the book Leverage: How Cheap Money Will Destroy the World. For information about Karl Denninger please visit www.Market-Ticker.org For more information about Retirement Lifestyle Advocates, please visit www.RetirementLifestyleAdvocates.com.

Has the mainstream media changed, or has technology provided the platform for a more democratized exchange of ideas, hence revealing the degree to which news has been crafted for public consumption? Your host, Dennis Tubbergen explores this question with our guest this week, Dr. Peter Jacobsen on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio. An intriguing conversation that you’ll not want to miss. Peter Jacobsen is the Gwartney Professor of Economic Education and Research and Ottawa University. He obtained his BS in economics from Southeast Missouri State University. After finishing his BS, he worked in banking for a year and then began to pursue his PhD at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He received his PhD in December 2020. Peter is currently continuing his research while fulfilling his passion for teaching economics to the students at Ottawa University. To learn more about our guest, Dr. Peter Jacobsen, please visit www.peter-jacobsen.com. To learn more about Retirement Lifestyle Advocates, please visit our website at www.RetirementLifestyleAdvocates.com.

What the fed has to do is to sacrifice the currency to avoid a 1930s-style depression. They're going to almost explicitly say, "We're going to let the dollar fall as far as it has to fall. We've got to protect jobs, et cetera, et cetera. We can't let the economy just go completely bust. So, if we have to have eight, nine, or 10% inflation forever, we'll just have to accept that as the least bad in a menu of bad options." Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio welcomes back to the show this week our guest, John Rubino. Your host, Dennis Tubbergen talks with John about the economy, currency, Bitcoin, and how the latest decisions from Washington may impact the future. John Rubino is the founder of the financial website DollarCollapse.com. He is the co-author, with Gold Money’s James Turk, of The Money Bubble, The Collapse of the Dollar and How to Profit from It, and author of Clean Money: Picking Winners in the Green-Tech Boom. After earning a Finance MBA from New York University, he spent the 1980s on Wall Street, as a money market trader, equity analyst, and junk bond analyst. During the 1990s he was a featured columnist with TheStreet.com and a frequent contributor to Individual Investor, Online Investor, and Consumers Digest, among many other publications. To learn more about our guest, John Rubino, visit www.DollarCollapse.com or check out his book “The Money Bubble” at https://amzn.to/2YOIe5z. To learn more about Retirement Lifestyle Advocates, please visit our website at www.RetirementLifestyleAdvocates.com.

If you look at the magnitude of the asset bubble that’s been inflating, the everything bubble, and then posit that any recession or pullback is going to be on the same order of magnitude as the bubble, this could get really bad. We could get into a really horrific drawdown in the markets. But even worse for everyday people. Our guest this week is Mark Jeftovic. Join your host Dennis Tubbergen as he gets Mark’s forecast for the recession, commodities, and Bitcoin in the months ahead on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio. Mark E. Jeftovic Mark is a 30-year veteran of the Internet, the co-founder & CEO of easyDNS Technologies, a Toronto-based web services company, and the author of two books about the internet; Unassailable: Protect Yourself from Cancel-Culture, and Deplatform Attacks, and other Online Disasters. Additionally, Jeftovic authors the blog site bombthrower.com and The CryptoCapitalist Newsletter. To learn more about Mark Jeftovic please visit www.thecryptocapitalist.com or take advantage of his trial newsletter offer at www.thecryptocapitalist.com/trial. To learn more about Retirement Lifestyle Advocates, please visit our website at www.RetirementLifestyleAdvocates.com.

While inflation of the current magnitude hasn’t been seen since the late 1970s and early 1980s, we’re not likely to see the type of response from the Fed, vis-à-vis Volker raising interest rates to 20%. This week’s guest on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio is Simon Popple, who points out that governments around the world have taken on tremendous amounts of debt with interest rates at 1 percent or less. Just raising the rates to 2 percent equates to a 100 percent increase in the cost of serving that debt. Listen in as your host Dennis Tubbergen talks with Mr. Popple about inflation and its effects on the commodities markets. Mr. Simon Popple is the author of the Brookville Capital Intelligence Report. Mr. Popple started a newsletter with MoneyWeek called Metals & Miners and when they were acquired, he set up Gold Speculator with Jim Rickards. During this time, he was a featured speaker at MoneyWeek and Mines & Money conferences. Mr. Popple has also done numerous interviews with IGTV on the gold market. To learn more about this week’s guest, Simon Popple please visit https://www.brookvillecapital.com. To learn more about Retirement Lifestyle Advocates, please visit our website at www.RetirementLifestyleAdvocates.com.

We're in a hyperinflation. The Fed is overreacting. Supply is not increasing. The government’s economic policies are not aimed at increasing supplies. Instead, their goal is to tame inflation by destroying wealth and thereby dampening demand. Our guest this week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio is technical analyst, Dr. Robert McHugh. Your host Dennis Tubbergen talks with Dr. McHugh about what the indicators are telling us and gets his forecast for the coming months. It’s an enlightening conversation you don’t want to miss. Robert McHugh, Ph.D. is President and Chief Executive Officer of Main Line Investors, Inc., and the proprietor of the Technical Indicator Index. He has testified before the U.S. Congress on Federal Reserve matters and is the author of “The Coming Economic Ice Age, Five Critical Steps to Survive and Prosper”. For information about Dr. Robert McHugh, please visit his website at www.technicalindicatorindex.com, or visit http://bit.ly/TheComingEconomicIceAge to get a copy of his best-selling book “The Coming Economic Ice Age”. For more information about Retirement Lifestyle Advocates, please visit www.RetirementLifestyleAdvocates.com.