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The coronavirus situation has forced many into an early retirement. 40 million jobs have been lost in the last 10 weeks of the coronavirus pandemic. That's significant. This week on the Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio show, your host Dennis Tubbergen, celebrates the release of his new #1 best-selling book, Revenue Sourcing: The Retirement Planning Strategy for the Post-Pandemic Economy. The monologue focuses on the current state of the economy, what’s ahead, and how the tools offer in the book Revenue Sourcing might help listeners protect their retirement savings. Dennis Tubbergen is a 30-year veteran of the financial services industry. He is CEO of Retirement Lifestyle Advocates and he’s written seven books for consumers on financial and retirement planning – 3 of them best-sellers. Get your copy of the new book and discover a special offer available at www.RetirementLifestyleAdvocates.com/books. To learn more about Retirement Lifestyle Advocates and learn how to subscribe to the weekly e-newsletter please visit www.RetirementLifestyleAdvocates.com.

Was Jesus a Socialist? An interesting question in light of the seemingly growing interest in socialism by so many young people today and the title of the book written by today’s guest, Mr. Larry Reed. Join us this week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio where your host Dennis Tubbergen talks with Mr. Reed who says that humankind needs motivation. And beyond just the threat of starvation, we need the kind of motivation that causes people to plan for the long-term, to take risks, to do the uncommon things that result in new inventions and new enterprises. Mr. Larry Reed is the author of the book “Was Jesus a Socialist?”, and the president emeritus of the Foundation for Economic Education. He is also a much sought-after speaker and well-published author of books and articles on economic freedom and personal liberty. For more information about Retirement Lifestyle Advocates, please visit www.RetirementLifestyleAdvocates.com. For information about Mr. Larry Reed, please visit www.fee.org, or find his book at https://www.amazon.com/Was-Jesus-Socialist-Question-Answer/dp/1610171608.

Is this 1929 all over again? Are we looking at a V-shaped recovery or are we more likely looking at a second leg down? We’re certainly experiencing the greatest shock to the world economy since WWII. On Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio this week your host, Dennis Tubbergen visits with Dr. A. Gary Shilling and discusses his economic forecast for the coming months. 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”. To learn more about Retirement Lifestyle Advocates please visit www.RetirementLifestyleAdvocates.com. For more information about our guest, Dr. Gary Shilling, please visit www.agaryshilling.com

The Fed is in money creation mode on steroids. Their balance sheet has expanded by 40% in the last month and is now approaching seven trillion dollars. Where is all this headed? Join your Host Dennis Tubbergen on this week’s Retirement Lifestyle Radio show where we will discuss this and much more with returning guest, Mr. Karl Denninger. 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 more information about Retirement Lifestyle Advocates, please visit www.RetirementLifestyleAdvocates.com. For information about Karl Denninger please visit www.Market-Ticker.org

Is the United States on the road to becoming a totalitarian state? How does the current economic path compare to that of the 1929 Great Depression? Our guest this week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates, Dr. Robert McHugh, discusses these important questions with your host Dennis Tubbergen. Dr. McHugh warns us all to be prepared for the financial, economic, and political storm that is just beginning. 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 more information about Retirement Lifestyle Advocates, please visit www.RetirementLifestyleAdvocates.com. 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”.

“We're in the final stages of worldwide fiat money system…it’s happening now on an international level. The whole system is starting a collapse.” This week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio, Host Dennis Tubbergen talks with long-time guest, Mr. Ian Gordon where they discuss why he believes we are seeing the final stages in the total collapse of the monetary and financial system worldwide. Mr. Gordon, now retired, is the founder of The Longwave Group. The Longwave Principle is based on the belief that the Kondratieff Cycle repeats itself over time. While the Kondratieff Cycle applies to past events, the Longwave Economic and Financial Cycle looks at multiple factors to determine where we are in the present and projects into the future. For more information about Retirement Lifestyle Advocates, please visit www.RetirementLifestyleAdvocates.com. For more information about our guest and the Longwave Cycle, please visit http://www.longwavegroup.com/.

Instead of pursuing a medical response, the media and the bureaucrats in government wanted a political response. The result has been random and endless irrational policies ultimately leading to the shutdown of much of our economy. This week’s guest, Mr. Jeffrey Tucker, discusses the implications of the government’s policies and the Fed’s response with your host Dennis Tubbergen. Jeffrey A. Tucker is Editorial Director for the American Institute for Economic Research. He is the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and eight books in 5 languages, most recently The Market Loves You. He is also the editor of The Best of Mises. For more information about Retirement Lifestyle Advocates, please visit www.RetirementLifestyleAdvocates.com. For more information about our guest Mr. Jeffrey Tucker, please visit https://www.aier.org.

Are we nationalizing the private investment market? For the first time, since the inception of the Federal Reserve in 1913, they are actually buying corporate debt in the primary market. This week’s guest on Retirement Advocates Radio, Mr. Michael Pento talks with Host Dennis Tubbergen about the implications of money printing on a scale that’s never been done before. Michael Pento is the president and founder of Pento Portfolio Strategies. He produces the weekly podcast “The Mid-week Reality Check” and is author of the book “The Coming Bond Market Collapse.” Note: CDC data referred to in the first segment of the program can be found at the website: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/index.htm For more information about Retirement Lifestyle Advocates, please visit www.RetirementLifestyleAdvocates.com. For more information about our guest Mr. Michael Pento, please visit http://pentoport.com/

Is the Coronavirus pandemic a “Black Swan” event or is it something else? “Pandemics don't break things in and of themselves, they show you what's already broken”. Your Host Dennis Tubbergen starts his conversation with returning guest David Skarica of AddititedToProfits.net with that quote by Patrick Wyman, which sets the stage for an entertaining and informative discussion about what’s happening in the financial markets today, on this week’s Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio Show. David Skarica is the founder and Editor of Addicted to Profits, a popular newsletter known for its stellar performance in both up and down markets. Skarica entered the financial markets at a very young age and, at the age of eighteen, became the youngest person on record to pass the Canadian Securities Course. He is a regular speaker at trade and investment conferences in Canada and is a regular guest on the Business News Network (BNN), Canada's flagship business broadcasting network. To learn more about Retirement Lifestyle Advocates, please visit our website at www.RetirementLifestyleAdvocates.com. To learn more about David Skarica, please visit http://addictedtoprofits.net.

As the Coronavirus continues to keep the overall economy on hold and unemployment numbers begin to climb dramatically, we wonder if we’ll be able to bounce back once the virus is under control and what impact the government response will have in the long term? This week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio, your Host Dennis Tubbergen talks with economist John Williams and gets his thoughts about unemployment and the potential for hyperinflation. Mr. Williams is a consulting economist who maintains the website Shadow Stats.com. He tracks and reports economic data using the methodologies formerly used by government agencies prior to changes being made to make the reported data look more favorable, and estimates the true, real inflation rate to be significantly higher than the reported rate. For more information about Retirement Lifestyle Advocates, please visit www.RetirementLifestyleAdvocates.com. For information about John Williams and Shadow Stats, please visit www.shadowstats.com.

The Coronavirus Pandemic is very different than your garden variety financial crisis, because it creates basically two problems with mutually exclusive solutions. This week on RLA Radio, your Host Dennis Tubbergen talks with currency expert Mr. John Rubino. John explains that to stop the pandemic we must halt economic activity, by contrast, to repair the deflationary effects of the pandemic we must stimulate the economy by getting people back to work. 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 Retirement Lifestyle Advocates, please visit our website at www.RetirementLifestyleAdvocates.com. 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.

The last week in the markets was in a word – DREADFUL. If you’ve been a long-time listener of the Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Show, you know that we have been forecasting a major stock decline. Obviously, predicting what the catalyst for such a decline might be is impossible, but inflated stock valuations have been there for all to see. On this week’s show, Host Dennis Tubbergen talks with noted expert Alasdair Macleod for his perspective on what’s ahead for the U.S. economy and the role of the coronavirus pandemic. Alasdair Macleod is the head of research at Gold Money Holding, a well-respected author and 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 Retirement Lifestyle Advocates, please visit our website at www.RetirementLifestyleAdvocates.com. To learn more about this week’s guest Mr. Alasdair Macleod, please visit https://www.goldmoney.com.

Is Coronavirus the real cause of the recent market volatility, or is there something else going on? This week on the Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio Show, Host Dennis Tubbergen talks with returning guest Karl Denninger about the impact of the Democrat Presidential candidates on stocks the manipulation in healthcare markets. 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 more information about Retirement Lifestyle Advocates, please visit www.RetirementLifestyleAdvocates.com. For information about Karl Denninger please visit www.Market-Ticker.org

You’ve retired from long career and you’re contemplating a second career pursuing entrepreneurial passions, congratulations. But as a new small business owner, there are common mistakes that could cost you dearly. This week your Host Dennis Tubbergen talks with small business tax expert Dan Pilla who reminds us all that when dealing with the IRS, it’s always your responsibility to prove your tax return is correct. If the IRS challenges your return, the burden of proof is yours…Dan offers the guidance you need to succeed. For three decades, Dan Pilla has been the nation’s leader in taxpayers’ rights defense and IRS abuse prevention and cure. Regarded as one of the country’s premiere experts in IRS procedures, he has helped countless thousands of citizens solve personal and business tax problems they thought might never be solved. To learn more about Retirement Lifestyle Advocates, please visit our website at www.RetirementLifestyleAdvocates.com. To learn more about Dan Pilla please visit www.taxhelponline.com.

Is the Corona Virus a demonstration of the power of government to literally shut down a country? Will we see more of this type of control over citizens in other countries, perhaps our own? And, how does this all relate to the financial markets in the next 12-18 months? Join us this week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio with your Host Dennis Tubbergen when he talks with Mr. Gerald Celente, business consultant and renowned trends forecaster about these issues and Gerald’s prediction of a “Greatest Depression”. Gerald Celente is an American trend forecaster, publisher of the Trends Journal, business consultant and author who makes predictions about the global financial markets and other important events. Gerald Celente developed the Globalnomic methodology to identify, track, forecast and manage trends, is a political atheist. Unencumbered by political dogma, rigid ideology or conventional wisdom, Celente, whose motto is “think for yourself,” observes and analyzes the current events forming future trends for what they are — not for the way he wants them to be. For more information about Retirement Lifestyle Advocates please visit, www.RetirementLifestyleAdvocates.com. For more information about our guest, Gerald Celente, please visit www.trendsresearch.com.