The Covid-19 #pandemic is interrupting the global #economy in more ways than we could have ever imagined. If #China doesn't produce the world will not be able to #consume. In this RTD #News Update w/ Mike

Pensioners are in need of a PARADIGM SHIFT with their #investment strategies. Since the Great Financial Crisis Pensioners have been subjected to the dangers of monetary policy and so much more. #Pensioners

Today we had a great Wise Talk #livestream and got a lot of great questions. The overall #consensus is that the #economy is tanking and the #coronavirus is an global distraction in the place of a global

The flood of obituaries that noted the passing of Paul Volcker (1927–2019) last week have almost all lauded his achievement as Fed chair (1979–1987) in reining in the double-digit #inflation that ravaged

Many think that #Silver and #Gold go together and because Gold has been shooting higher due to #investor and central #bank demand, they expect Silver to follow but they will be sadly mistaken when they

The dollar maybe the world reserve #currency, but NO fiat currency is immune to the laws of supply and demand. And quantitative easing creates huge amounts of additional supply. #QE is sold to the public

The #family unit is one of the fundamental pillars of any #society, and so the weaker our family units become the weaker our entire #nation is going to become. For decades, the traditional family unit

The U.S. #stockmarket continues to add to its gains; the Dow Jones is up another 100 points today – a new record high: 28,235.89. We were up better than 200 points at one point in the day, but all the

This summer I was in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, along with a host of monetary elites, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Bretton Woods conference that established the post-WWII international

It was great having Garic Moran join me on RTD to share his thoughts on the fate of the #US #economy. During our discussion he highlighted how #BenBernanke labeled #QuantitativeEasing as a temporary emergency

After the financial #crisis, #Europe’s political leaders put together a complex set of rules to make it harder for future #governments to bail out #banks. That system is looking so full of holes that one

Uncle Sam is terminal, and the only thing that can be done now is to try and provide some comfort (via the Repo Market). Here’s what comes next… Find out more in this RTD Quick Take here:

Since the turn of the millennium there have been two global #bank credit crises: the first was the #deflation of the dot-com bubble in 2001–2, and the second the 2008–9 financial #crisis that wiped out

Given this week’s news worthy events, I think a friendly public service reminder is merited on current ongoing G20 and USA Bank Bail-In Laws. Find out more in this RTD News Update:

A secure and comfortable quality of life after 40 or 50 years of hard work was once practically a guarantee in #America, but the #AmericanDream of #retirement is now dead and gone. Get your FREE copy of

Years ago, I had to adjust my real estate model for di-ers, as #homes last near forever and di-ers are forced #sellers that can overwhelm and offset the younger peak #buyers into age 42-43 in recent years.

Most Americans are now concerned that company #pension plans and Social Security will not adequately provide for them in their #retirement years. Their concerns are warranted. Find out more in this RTD

For the past decade, the name of Zoltan Pozsar has been among the most admired and respected on #WallStreet: not only did the #Hungarian lay the groundwork for our current understanding of the deposit-free

When I was asked to write an article about the impact of negative #interestrates and negative yielding #bonds, I thought this is a chance to look at the topic from a broader perspective. There have been

File this one away under ‘completely ridiculous’. You might have heard that Elon Musk was on trial last week in #LosAngeles; he was being sued because he claimed (multiple times) that British spelunker