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No matter what they say, the Federal Reserve is actually pleased to see consumer price inflation so high because it's one way of deflating the debt. Chances of success are, however, doubtful, according to this week’s guest, Murray Gunn, as bond markets are already demanding higher interest rates. Join your host Dennis Tubbergen on today’s episode of Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio for an insightful discussion and Mr. Gunn’s forecast for the coming months. Murray Gunn is Head of Global Research at Elliott Wave International. He worked as a fund manager in global bonds, currencies, and stocks, including long posts at Standard Life Investments and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. He then joined HSBC Bank as Head of Technical Analysis. Murray is the author of Trading Regime Analysis (Wiley, 2009) and a contributor to Socionomic Studies of Society and Culture (Socionomics Institute Press, 2017). In April 2018, Murray took over the helm of The European Short Term Update. You can also read his commentary in Global Market Perspective, Interest Rates Pro Services, and Currency Pro Services, and on deflation.com. To learn more about Murray Gunn’s work as Head of Global Research at Elliott Wave International, please visit elliottwave.com. You can also get free access to the classic book "Elliott Wave Principle - Key to Market Behavior" at https://www.elliottwave.com/wave/retirementlifestyleadvocates To learn more about Retirement Lifestyle Advocates, please visit our website at www.RetirementLifestyleAdvocates.com.

Stock and bonds are already in a bearish trend, with only 1% of tech stocks propping up the S&P. Our guest this week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio is the leading cycles research analyst, Dr. Charles Nenner. Dr. Nenner explains how he mathematically predicts the annual, monthly, and even intra-day high’s and low’s in the markets in his conversation with your host, Dennis Tubbergen. Dr. Nenner forecasts the Dow at $18K or worse this year. He says…“Protect your assets; this is not going to end well”. 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.

Could we be looking at the peak in the markets? Many have been forecasting a market crash for years that the Fed has so far been able to forestall through money printing. Our guest this week, economic cycles expert Mr. Harry Dent, says that both the generation cycle and technology cycle are trending down, which sets us up for a once-in-a-lifetime event. Join your host, Dennis Tubbergen, on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio where he and Mr. Dent talk about what’s ahead in 2022. Mr. 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 has long ago adopted a policy of supporting financial assets in order to maintain economic confidence. Now they’ve suggested that they’re going to wind down the $120 billion in monthly QE by March or April of 2022. Our guest this week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio is Mr. Alasdair Macleod. Your host, Dennis Tubbergen, talks with Mr. Macleod about his views on the likelihood of tapering so quickly, how the government will fund its $3 trillion annual deficit spending, and the effects on the financial assets they’ve pledged to support. 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.

Inflation is now running at three and a half times higher than the Fed’s target rate of 2 percent. The Fed is clearly worried about this, and now appears poised to announce a doubling of the tapering at next week’s FOMC meeting in an effort to get the table set for interest rate hikes and normalization. On this week’s Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio show your host Dennis Tubbergen talks with guest Michael Pento about the repercussions the Fed’s tapering action is likely to have on the markets. Listen in to hear Mr. Pento’s predictions for the markets in the coming year. 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.

When it comes to managing the federal budget, government officials only have three choices. These are the same three choices that governments through the world and through the centuries have always had; raise taxes, cut spending, or debase the currency (print money). Join your host Dennis Tubbergen on this week’s Special Edition of Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio where he looks at the prospects for these three options, why each one is a bad choice, and how you might protect your dreams of a secure, stress-free retirement. Dennis Tubbergen has been working in the financial services industry for over thirty years. He is the CEO of PLP Advisors, a registered investment advisory company, and the host of Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio. Dennis has authored numerous books for financial advisors and consumers, three of which have been #1 best-sellers on Amazon. You can get a free copy of this month’s Special Report at www.RequestYourReport.com. For more information about Retirement Lifestyle Advocates and more free resources, please visit www.RetirementLifestyleAdvocates.com.

Are we headed for a “crack-up-boom” as originally described by Austrian economist Mises in the 1920s, or can we avoid it? You’ll not want to miss this week’s Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio show when your host, Dennis Tubbergen talks with guest Mr. Jeffrey Tucker. Tucker says, “whether we will or not” is the bigger question. Just like economists in Weimar Germany thought they were smarter, today’s economists appear to have forgotten the lessons about the relationship between quantitative measures of money and prices. 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.

There’s a great deal of anticipatory borrowing and inventory building that's going on driven by this mortal fear of not having enough stuff for Christmas. Retailers have been encouraging people to buy ahead, and saw we just had reports from Walmart and Target that their inventories have really leaped. Our guest this week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio is Dr. A. Gary Shilling, who tells your host Dennis Tubbergen, that he believes that inflation is transitory and will subside leaving retailers in the position of having to ultimately discount prices to unload the excess inventory. Listen in to get Dr. Shilling’s forecast for the markets and our economy. 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”. 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.

Companies are so desperate for workers that they're doing things they never thought they would do. Like doing away with drug tests, checking the educational credentials, and calling references. This week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio, our guest Mr. John Rabino talks with your host Dennis Tubbergen about the labor shortage, wage inflation, and the disastrous consequences for both the US and world economy. John Rubino manages the financial website DollarCollapse.com. He is the co-author, with GoldMoney’s James Turk, of The Money Bubble, and 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. He currently writes for CFA Magazine. To learn more about our guest, John Rubino, visit his blog site 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.

The reality is, that Congress has spent the last two years violating every legitimate rule of reason to monetary and fiscal policy. They have pumped 8 trillion dollars of unbacked credit into the system in the last 18 months…so, of course, inflation is going through the roof. This week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio, your host, Dennis Tubbergen, is joined by frequent guest, Mr. Karl Denninger. They discuss inflation, labor shortages, and the probability of this degenerating into essentially uncontrolled violence if our government doesn’t correct the damage they’ve done. 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.

Woodrow Wilson is regarded by many as being the worst President in US history, although some would say that the current occupant of the White House is giving him a run for his money. Just over 100 years ago, under Wilson, the income tax became law, the Federal Reserve was created, and an ever-growing government led to deficit spending and reckless money printing led to inflation that reached 12-13%. Our guest this week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio is Lawrence Reed. Your host Dennis Tubbergen talks with Larry about the current state of the economy, the similarities to the past, and the path back to a prosperous country where individual freedom and liberty are restored. Lawrence W. Reed is FEE's President Emeritus, Humphreys Family Senior Fellow, and Ron Manners Global Ambassador for Liberty, having served for nearly 11 years as FEE’s president (2008-2019). He is the author of the 2020 book, “Was Jesus a Socialist?”, as well as Real Heroes: Incredible True Stories of Courage, Character, and Conviction, and Excuse Me, Professor: Challenging the Myths of Progressivism. For information about Mr. Larry Reed, please visit www.LawrenceWReed.com. For more information about Retirement Lifestyle Advocates, please visit www.RetirementLifestyleAdvocates.com.

Investing in gold and silver are great hedges against rising inflation, but according to our guest, Mr. Simon Popple, you may also want to consider adding exposure the broader commodities market. Your host on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio, Dennis Tubbergen, talks with Popple about the opportunities to invest is Lithium, Cobalt, Uranium, and rare earth minerals as the push for electric vehicles and similar government measures directed at climate change take hold globally. Mr. Simon Popple is 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.

Every stock market crash has always had one Hindenburg Omen or more on the clock at the same time. It's basically an indicator that says if you have a high number of new highs and new lows on a particular day at the same time, that's an unhealthy market. It's a dangerous market. Our guest this week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio is Dr. Robert McHugh. He tells your host, Dennis Tubbergen, that we currently have two Hindenburg Omens on the clock and potentially a third in the making, signaling what could be the beginning of a bear market greater than that of the 1930s. Listen in now to hear his insightful forecast for the economy, the markets, and commodities. 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.

The vast majority of Americans continue to suffer as a result of Fed policy, and they will suffer even more in the future. James Bullard, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, admits that it doesn't look like we'll be going back down to 2% inflation anytime soon so we just better get used to higher inflation being with us for a long time. We have to deal with it. This week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio, your host Dennis Tubbergen talks with Peter Schiff about Fed policy, inflation, and what we can expect in the coming months. Peter Schiff is an internationally recognized economist specializing in foreign equity, currency, and gold markets. Mr. Schiff made his name as President and Chief Global Strategist of Euro Pacific Capital. He frequently delivers lectures at major economic and investment conferences and is quoted often in the print media, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, L.A. Times, Barron's, BusinessWeek, Time, and Fortune. His broadcast credits include regular guest appearances on CNBC, Fox Business, CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News Channel, as well as hosting his own weekly radio show, Wall Street Unspun. He is also the author of the bestselling books: “The Real Crash”, "Crash Proof," "The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets," and "Crash Proof 2.0”. To learn more about Peter Schiff, please visit https://schiffgold.com or https://www.europac.com. You can find his books at https://amzn.to/2VX9Ll3. To learn more about Retirement Lifestyle Advocates, please visit our website at www.RetirementLifestyleAdvocates.com.

Since the financial crisis in 2008, the Fed and central banks around the world have been pumping money into markets. Nearly all of it has gone into speculative derivatives. According to our guest this week, Mr. David McAlvany, history was made last Friday, when over $2 Trillion in options traded on the S&P. Listen as your host for Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio, Dennis Tubbergen talks with McAlvany about the markets, cryptocurrencies, and the prospects for gold and silver in the near future. David is CEO of the McAlvany Financial Companies – International Collectors Associates and McAlvany Wealth Management. He is a featured speaker on national television programs including CNBC, Fox News, Fox Business News, and Bloomberg; on radio programs; and at financial seminars around the world, analyzing major events and their impact on the global economy and financial markets. He can be heard weekly on his market commentary with world leaders, bankers, economists, and renowned investors at www.mcalvanycommentary.com. For information about Mr. David McAlvany, please visit www.weeklycommentary.com or www.vaulted.com. For more information about Retirement Lifestyle Advocates, please visit www.RetirementLifestyleAdvocates.com.