“Spain will be the next Southern European nation to default and to need a major bailout, and it is the most pivotal. The size of the potential bailout of Spain, in the hundreds of billions of dollars, is enough to cause the economically stronger northern nations to question whether to continue to bail out one nation after the next. “Furthermore, the crises have not been limited to a single default and bailout per nation. Gree World...

Japan’s pre-WW II Baby Boom was 20-plus years before the US’s. Their bubble burst in the late 1980′s. The Nikkei Index is has still only recovered to 10,000 from it’s peak of 40,000 over 20 years ago. Japan’s answer? Keep printing Yen and stimulating against all demographics, instead of de-leveraging and writing down debt! Does that sound anything like the U.S. Fed Reserve’s actions today. Yet, there are major differences between...

Baby Boomers barely have a decade left to recover from the current economic and financial crisis. So when WILL things turn around? This episode features excerpted interviews with Harry S. Dent regarding his book The Great Crash Ahead, and covers the hurdles to overcome, (European Debt, China Bubble, American Debt), and what the government could most effectively do right now to get America back on a strong economic...

How old will you live to be? That’s the million dollar question. With people living longer and the advances in medical technology, how can you plan your retirement and guarantee that you will have enough money to last the rest of your life? Imagine you are retiring in the next year. Does your retirement plan increase with inflation? Will you be able to live on what you are making today, 10 or 20 years down the line? Bruce Weide and...

This is a seminal show we keep replaying that never gets dated. It is about a key transition that the Baby Boom generation is just beginning to enter that they have little cognizance of, but is going to hit them like a ton of bricks. That is the difference between the ACCUMULATION aspect of saving and investing vs. the DISTRIBUTION strategies that they will begin to employ, and that are much more tricky and dangerous to...

The crux of Failure in 2008 was the BANKS! Yes, tentacles went far and wide, but it was the leveraging of massive debt into the overinflated US real estate market that was at the crux of it. In this show we feature a groundbreaking series from Bill Moyers about why people like David Stockman, former Budget Director for the Reagan administration, and N.Y. Times Journalist Gretchen Morgenson, say not only that it can happen again, it WILL happen...

WSJ reports that seniors’ nest eggs across the country are being shattered by low interest rates the Fed Reserve has put in place since the financial crisis. They talk about the crisis on .24% (the 24/100ths!) at the bank but they totally fail to mention the 7-8% guarantees in the pension markets. These folks are confusing short-term vehicles with long-term purposes and that’s why they are gong under! Plus, Bruce & Walt really clown it...

Why is my portfolio crashing? Why has this decade been so darn rough to grow any kind retirement fund at all? Well, there’s the Greek Crisis. Sure, okay. I guess so. It’s Greece’s fault. But before that there was the Debt Cieling Crisis. Oh there ya go! It’s the Democrats’ fault. No, uh – it’s the Republicans’ fault. And before that it was the banks’ fault for the Housing & Credit Bubble. And before that it was...