This week’s interview with your host, Dennis Tubbergen, on RLA Radio, features Simon Popple, a gold investment expert, discussing his views on the current state of the banking sector, commodities, and the real estate market. Popple believes that banks have been able to rely on central banks to print money, but this may not be sustainable in the lon…

On this week’s episode of Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio with your host Dennis Tubbergen, economist Harry Dent predicts a significant economic downturn in the US, with the government adding a trillion dollars in debt every 100 days. He believes that the US has been avoiding a second Great Depression since 2008 by printing money and running co…

In this week’s interview with Dennis Tubbergen on RLA Radio, Brien Lundin, editor of Gold Newsletter and host of the New Orleans Investment Conference, discussed the current state of the global economy. Lundin believes that 2024 could be a significant year for gold and silver due to increasing debt levels and the de-dollarization movement led by th…

In an interview with Kerry Lutz, financial expert Dennis Tubbergen discussed the current state of the economy. Tubbergen believes that the economy is artificially inflated due to government spending and that without this spending, the US would be in a severe recession. He also suggested that the current economic situation is akin to a Ponzi scheme,…

Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio host Dennis Tubbergen speaks with Michael Pento, founder and president of Pento Portfolio Strategies, this week about the current state of the stock market and the potential implications of insider selling. Pento highlights the high ratio of insider selling to insider buying, suggesting that insiders may know so…

This week host of Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio, Dennis Tubbergen, talks with Dr. A. Gary Shilling, publisher of the Insight newsletter, about the state of the US economy and the possibility of a recession. Dr. Shilling points out several recessionary indicators, such as declining consumer intentions to buy houses and cars, declining consume…

This week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio, your host, Dennis Tubbergen, talks and discusses the current state of the Federal Reserve and the potential for rate cuts in 2024 with guest Mark Jeftovic. He believes that the Fed and other central banks have started a slow-motion pivot, pretending to be hawkish while being unable to raise rates a…

Your host, Dennis Tubbergen, speaks with John Rubino on this episode of Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio about the state of the US economy and the potential for a financial crisis. Rubino discusses the emergence of what he calls "The Everything Bubble" and how it is causing inflation and threatening the financial system. He also highlights the …

Karl Denninger, a writer and analyst, joins your host, Dennis Tubbergen, this week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio to discuss the current state of the stock market and the potential for a recession. He questions the belief that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates, pointing out that there is no official statement from the Fed indicat…

Murray Gunn, the head of global research at Elliott Wave International, joins your host, Dennis Tubbergen, today on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio. Mr. Gunn explains the concept of Elliott wave analysis, which is a model of the economy that identifies repeatable patterns in market behavior. He discusses how these patterns can be used to forec…

Michael Oliver, the founder of Momentum Structural Analysis, joins your host, Dennis Tubbergen, for this episode of Retirement Lifestyle Advocates to discuss his unique approach to analyzing markets and his predictions for the future. Oliver believes that 2024 and 2025 will be years of massive price and market movements that will benefit and hurt p…

In this Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio episode, your host, Dennis Tubbergen, speaks with Selwyn Duke, a journalist and commentator, about the attacks on Western civilization. Duke argues that Western civilization is under attack from the left and that the West should be proud of its achievements and should mount an offensive in defense of Wes…

Your host, Dennis Tubbergen, speaks with Dr. Bob McHugh, a technical analyst, about his concerns regarding the current state of the economy and markets. McHugh highlights five fundamental economic points that suggest a potential economic recession and stock market crash. These points include the historical pattern of recessions and stock market cra…

This week’s edition of Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio features an interview with Alasdair McLeod, the head of research at GoldMoney. Your host, Dennis Tubbergen, talks with McLeod about the potential impact of the BRICS Coalition on the US dollar as an international reserve currency. McLeod suggests that the US is already fighting back agains…

This week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio, your host, Dennis Tubbergen, speaks with Jeffrey Tucker about the state of the US economy and the health of liberty in the US. Tucker expresses concern about growing US government debt and the potential for inflation. He also discusses the manipulation of economic data and the need for more accurat…

The yield curve has been inverted for over a year, which is unusual and suggests a recession is likely on the horizon. Our guest this week, Karl Denninger, discusses with your host, Dennis Tubbergen, the inverted yield curve and its implications for the economy, along with other economic indicators, such as retail sales and housing sales, which sug…

This week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio, Dr. Charles Nenner, a specialized analyst who uses cycles to analyze markets, explains to your host, Dennis Tubbergen, how he applies his cycle analysis to forecast market movements. He emphasizes that cycles are not mystical but have a physical component based on the influence of the sun's electro…

(Replay) Inflation went from “transient” to, “it's good for you” to, “we've got to do something before we have a revolution on our hands”. But (the Fed) they're kind of trapped now because they can't keep raising (interest rates) because we're seeing what's happening to the debt and the bond markets. They can't raise and they can't lower and they c…

Inflation went from “transient” to, “it's good for you” to, “we've got to do something before we have a revolution on our hands”. But (the Fed) they're kind of trapped now because they can't keep raising (interest rates) because we're seeing what's happening to the debt and the bond markets. They can't raise and they can't lower and they can't stay…

This week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio, Dr. Charles Nenner, a specialized analyst who uses cycles to analyze markets, explains to your host, Dennis Tubbergen, how he applies his cycle analysis to forecast market movements. He emphasizes that cycles are not mystical but have a physical component based on the influence of the sun's electro…

We all know that central banks and governments don’t present accurate economic data. While they report inflation at roughly 4 percent, we all know from our own experience at the grocery, gas pump, and just about everywhere else we spend money that inflation is likely much closer to 20 percent annually. Globally, debt is over 330 trillion today, and…

If there's a time in your life when you're going to be cautious in investments, and that's everything, stocks, normal corporate and high-yield bonds, everything but the Treasury bonds, which are the safest in the world, the 10 and 30-year, it's now. Joining your host, Dennis Tubbergen, on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio this week is economist …

We have said for many years that the easy money policies of recent years end in inflation followed by deflation, or deflation. This week's guest on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio, Mr. Kerry Lutz, echoed that idea in his conversation with your host, Dennis Tubbergen. In response, Lutz sees that in an inflationary environment, the price and pur…

Two years ago, the 10-year US Treasury note was yielding .50 percent. Now it's 4.8 percent. That debt is rolling over, and the money that it costs to service that debt is skyrocketing. Soon, 35 percent of all tax revenue is going to pay just the interest on our national debt. Our guest this week, Michael Pento, outlines his projections for the comi…

Please "Like" and "Share" this episode, and "Follow" RLA radio.Gold is relatively currency-agnostic. So, if you hold gold and your currency fails, your gold holds its value. This week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio, your host, Dennis Tubbergen, talks with Simon Popple about his recent report titled " Three Misconceptions About Investing in…

US Government debt has surpassed the $33 trillion dollar mark. Add to that the unfunded liabilities of Social Security and Medicare, and you get an unfathomable $200 trillion dollar plus problem. Once again, on this week’s Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio program, your host, Dennis Tubbergen, is joined by Jeremy Bolker for a “special edition” f…

Historically, the life span of a world reserve currency is about 80-100 years. So, it’s no surprise that the BRICS countries, who now represent over 40% of the world population and oil production, would be working together to replace the US Dollar with a new trade currency, likely one backed by commodities including gold. As our first-time guest on…

All the leading indicators, and all other indicators that have heretofore marked the onset of economic recession, suggest that 2024 could be a rough year. Our guest on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio this week, John Rubino, talks with your host, Dennis Tubbergen, about his thoughts on the likelihood of a recession. Mr. Rubino points to indicat…

Dennis Tubbergen is joined on today’s Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio program by Jeremy Bolker. Jeremy interviews Dennis and gets his thoughts on the economy, student loan debt, and the potential for a deflationary environment ahead. While the program format typically features Dennis interviewing various experts on fiscal policy and the econom…

The housing market is locked up. People who have 3% mortgages cannot move except under extreme duress because a new mortgage is 7%. And the price of the average house has doubled. As a result, the payment's gone up by 40%. People don't have that. They just don't have the money. Returning to the Retirement Lifestyle Advocates show this week is Karl …

The US economy appears to be driven by two forces; the Federal Reserve, which is raising interest rates in an attempt to get inflation back to its 2 percent target, and the investors who have thus far been able to maintain the status quo on employment and the stock market. On this week’s Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio show, guest Dr. A. Gary …

The Central Bank has allowed you to hallucinate and make investment-grade decisions on a micro and a macro level based on a false assumption. And when they decided to unwind that process in March of last year and start raising rates from next to zero up to over five percent now, suddenly, people are facing a reality that they didn't expect to face.…

The BRICS countries have convened a summit set to begin next month on August 22, at which it’s anticipated that they will announce a new gold-backed trade settlement currency. A very popular guest, Mr. Alasdair Macleod, joins your host Dennis Tubbergen on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio this week to explain just what a new gold-backed trade se…

We've got very elevated bullish sentiment in the markets at the moment. According to the Association of Individual Investors, bullish sentiment is the highest it's been since the top roughly 27 months ago, and so people think that the bull market is back. Our guest this week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio, Mr. Murray Gunn, says that's anot…

The Constitution provides for three branches of government, but now we've got this fourth branch which contains a permanent class of bureaucrats that nobody elected. It is a big threat to our freedom. The week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio, your host Dennis Tubbergen talks with Jeffrey Tucker about his recent article titled “Twenty Grim R…

The situation that happened in the crash of 1929 was because nine out of 10 cycles stopped together, and you have the same situation occurring again in 2026, 2027. So that is really going to be a terrible situation. Our guest on this week’s episode of Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio is cycles expert, Dr. Charles Nenner. Your host, Dennis Tubbe…

The Fed has raised interest rates, but what the Fed has not managed to do is get Congress to cut out or curtail spending in any meaningful way. We had about a 4 trillion-dollar federal budget prior to COVID, now over 6 trillion. That's a 50% expansion from what it used to be, and there is no indication that anybody in Congress is willing to put tha…

Please "Like" and "Share" this episode, and "Follow" RLA radio.You can print currency, but you can't print gold, and you can't print other commodities either. Our guest this week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio is Simon Popple. He shares his thoughts with your host Dennis Tubbergen about the banking sector issues, the likelihood of continue…

The Great Depression of the 1930s was a Supercycle wave four down. So, this is a level higher or worse than that, and that's what's just starting. It'll probably last at least 10 years, maybe more, and it's going to do a lot of damage and probably change the way we see the world. That’s not to scare everyone, but according to our guest this week on…

With 1.5 trillion dollars worth of commercial mortgages coming due and interest rates rising, are we likely to see a similar crisis in real estate like the residential crisis in 2008? First-time guest on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio, Mr. Kerry Lutz, tells your host Dennis Tubbergen it's a disaster, but it's not like the subprime mortgage me…

The everything-bubble is now beginning to burst. In the next 12-18 months, we’ll see more bank failures and significant downturns in stocks, bonds, real estate, etc. Our guest this week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio, Harry Dent, tells us to get out of the markets now. If he’s wrong, you might lose a few points to the upside, but if he’s r…

The problem in the banking system is pretty simple, for ten out of the last fourteen years, mortgage rates have been well below the effective Fed funds rate today, which is 5.1%. So, bank assets are yielding very, very low-income streams to banks. Alternatively, you can go out right now and get over 5% on a risk-free ultra-short-term treasury note.…

The money supply is shrinking. For the first time since the early 70’s, the FED is shrinking the US money supply; and it's going down pretty dramatically. Sometime in the next year, the government's going to be confronted with a dilemma: does it ramp up the money supply at the cost of possibly reigniting inflation and causing the instability that f…

De-dollarization is happening now. I have no idea how long the US dollar will remain the world reserve currency, but it is coming unraveled at an alarming speed. A thought shared by this week’s guest on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio, Mr. Mark Jeftovic, in his conversation with your host Dennis Tubbergen. They also discuss the future of centr…

When you look at the FDIC insurance programs that insure bank deposits, the deposit insurance reserve fund has about 170 billion in it to ensure $11 trillion of bank deposits. However, the idea that the insurance fund is there just to protect small depositors is very misleading. The primary duty of a modern central bank is to ensure the integrity o…

The dislocation impact of excess currency creation has the currency markets in an extreme situation, such that the U.S. can no longer export our inflation. We’re likely to be much worse off than in 2008. Our guest this week, Mr. Karl Denninger, explains what’s happening with the US dollar and provides his take on the current state of the banking in…

“Bank regulators were really asleep at the switch. They had all the red flags for Silicon Valley Bank back in 2019. They raised concerns, but they never forced any actions. The rating agencies were asleep at the switch as well. They were rating Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank as investment grade securities right up to the end.” Our guest thi…

Global debt is around 300 trillion today. At the beginning of this century, it was just under 100 trillion, and it's gone up three times just in the last 20 years. And over the last 10 years, there's been a massive growth in derivatives, now estimated to exceed $2 quadrillion. Don’t miss this week’s episode of Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio, …

What does the length of hemlines in women’s fashion have to do with trends in the stock market? Discover the answer on this week’s Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio program, where your host, Dennis Tubbergen, talks with our guest Mr. Murray Gunn about what Elliot Wave principle and Socionomics indicate for the future of the markets. It’s a thoug…

Paraphrasing from an article written by Dr. Fauci, where he says that we need a new infrastructure of human existence in which basically we get rid of cities, we get rid of birthday parties, we get rid of sports events, we get rid of bars, restaurants, and all the normal things we consider to be social. Our guest this week, Jeffrey Tucker talks wit…