WALL STREET JOURNAL REPORTS - The International Monetary Fund pronounces, (despite their best efforts) that the world needs to brace for ANOTHER soon-to-come recession! WHAT? Haven't the Central Banks of the world committed to printing enough fiat money to keep us all out of this abyss? No! In fact, the WSJ report actually enlarges on the fact that it was the very fixes by Central Banks (ECB, U.S. Fed Reserve, Bank of Japan, etc) that have exacerbated the coming Recession, and complicated any po...
Oct 20, 2012•50 min
Sept, 25, 2012 - Wall Street Journal Reports, "Home prices notched their strongest year-to-date gains since 2005, climbing 5.9% through July and signaling the housing market's steady trudge toward recovery."Could it be that it's time for investors to jump back in to real estate?In this episode of Straight Talk Wealth Bruce interviews two outstanding guests on the matter:Economist, Rodney Johnson: President of Harry S. Dent Enterprises. Rodney speaks in detail about how the new real estate opport...
Oct 04, 2012•50 min
General Motors' employees have a problem. A BIG problem.In this show, What's Wrong with Annuities? host Bruce Weide explores the pros and cons of Guaranteed Income vs. Managed Income in retirement for working American Baby Boomers, and why literally more than 35 billion dollars of GM and Ford obligations are set to move out of the hands of Wall Street money managers, over to the American Midwest (known as the "insurance belt") actuarial statistic geeks at life insurance companies.What do the big...
Sep 16, 2012•50 min
Clearly, the world's sovereign governments are either bursting with debt now, or they are frantically absorbing the debt liabilities of their private sectors, or even other countries. Understandably, mindful people are today speculating what could happen if major European countries, and yes...the US eventually simply can not pay their debt obligations and the World goes BANKRUPT! The most common answer you hear today, "Buy gold & silver because monetary denominations will be come meaningless...
Aug 19, 2012•50 min
We KNOW that governments around the world are over-indebted. We KNOW some very big governments are going to default this decade. So how could the flight to gold NOT be the answer? In this exclusive interview with Straight Talk Wealth Host, Bruce Weide, Mr. Dent discusses the realtionship between $20 trillion in private sector debt that he expoects to burst in the next few years as opposed to approx $2 trillion that the U.S. has "printed" to begin filling the void. Dent declares that this will no...
Aug 08, 2012•48 min
Harry Dent is interviewed by STW Host Bruce Weide regarding Dents recent claim that the Global governments and banks are in a deviant collusion to create a false global economy and artificially low interest rates that will soon have its day of reckoning on the global economy,.
Jul 07, 2012•21 min
How old will you live to be? That is 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 you the rest of your life? Imagine you are retiring next year. Is your retirement income guaranteed to increase with inflation? Will you even be able to live on what you make today in 10, 20 or more years down the line? In tis show, Bruce Weide and special guest co-host Michael Ro...
Jul 06, 2012•50 min
In this episode Bruce explores whether it is possible to trust Wall Street anymore, in the light of blatant manipulation by too-big-to-fail global banks, in collusion with governments around the world. Sound like harsh words. Bruce's lays out the actual facts in this show.
Jul 06, 2012•50 min
Just your luck. You've been trying to save for retirement or just build wealth over the last 12 years, and you couldn't have picked aworse time. Consider the challenges we've faced as an economy: * The bursting of the Tech Bubble in 2000 * The terrorist attacks of 9/11 * The housing boom of 2003-2007, followed by the biggest bust since the Great Depression * The continuing repercussions of the debt bubble; from chaos in Europe, to an American economy addicted to stimulus 13 years of lost growth ...
Jun 22, 2012•50 min
Despite all appearances, the global financial markets are NOT coming to an apocalyptic collapse! Yes, there WILL be a new day dawning! The problem is that it may take until the end of this decade.In this show, Bruce extensively discusses the Seasons of the Economy, coming full cycle about every 40 years. FIND OUT: * How will we get through this global winter (If governments stopped trying to reverse the natural course of things)?* How America could come out strong by the end of the 2010s, provid...
Jun 04, 2012•50 min
This is the entire interview uncut with Harry S. Dent that Bruce conducted in the course of editing the broadcast show. Get the whole enchilada on what Harry Dent had to day, right here!
May 17, 2012•29 min
In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world. - Barack Obama - European government and private debt is on an unsustainable andunsolvable path. Now, after northern European countries (namely Germany) have spent billions and billions of Euros to save Greece, (who just elected a new government that will tell their lenders to "take a hike"), there is a whole new specter or European debt rising in Spain. But this time it's different.Spain is too big to fail, AND too ...
May 17, 2012•50 min
In this show Bruce reviews two critical governmental reports from the General Accountability Office (GAO) , and the President's Council of Economic Advisers which are sounding major alarms about the Baby Boomer Generation's unpreparedness for retirement in the next 10-20 years in America. The reports cover the 5 Major Risks to retirement that, according to the government, will change everything. But the VERY VERY GOOD NEWS is that Bruce breaks down each specific risk , and gives you the specific...
Apr 27, 2012•50 min
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 our two countries as well. Get the whole story in this broadcast e...
Apr 12, 2012•50 min
In this show I want to address an issue that I truly believe is the most important issue all of us will face in the next decade. It is an issue that goes to the very heart of financial planning. And that is whether our personally accumulated U.S. Dollars will in fact become worth more in the foreseeable future or in fact become worthless as a monetary system by the end of this decade. - - You could buy all the stocks and mutual funds you want in the 2010’s; buy all the best foreclosure real esta...
Mar 26, 2012•50 min
In this show I want to address an issue that I truly believe is the most important issue all of us will face in the next decade. It is an issue that goes to the very heart of financial planning. And that is whether our personally accumulated U.S. Dollars will in fact become worth more in the foreseeable future or in fact become worthless as a monetary system by the end of this decade. You could buy all the stocks and mutual funds you want in the 2010’s; buy all the best foreclosure real estate, ...
Mar 23, 2012•58 min
Get the whole story without the commercials. Is the stock market climbing because things are getting fixed, or do we have Wall Street living on "crack cocaine" being pushed on it by the Federal Reserve? In the Extended Podcast version, Bruce gets to slow down and give you the much bigger picture with all the facts. Hear interview clips with Gretchen Morgensen, David Stockman, Lakshman Achuthan (Chief Operations Officer of the Economic Cycle Research Institute), and Harry S Dent, who say that the...
Mar 09, 2012•1 hr 13 min
February 2012 has been a good month for stock. Yet Bruce takes on naysayers like David Stockman, Lakshman Achuthan (Chief Operations Officer of the Economic Cycle Research Institute), and Harry S Dent, who say that there is a disconnect between the actual economy and the direction of the S&P 500. Will Baby Boomers see another economic crisis?
Mar 09, 2012•52 min
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 again! THIS SHOW GREATLY EXPANDS on our shortened br...
Feb 10, 2012•1 hr 26 min
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 again!See much more on this story at our website at w...
Feb 10, 2012•52 min
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 footing.
Jan 31, 2012•52 min
First in a special "podcast only" format, STW Radio, usually broadcast as a 1-hour show on AM radio with barely enough time to cover issues in detail, now gets to stretch out and get serious about informing America regarding saving for retirement in the Desperate Decade ahead. This show highlights the seeds of the Eurodebt and why Europe only has 1 of the 3 key tools most other sovereign countries have to fix their economic crisis.
Jan 10, 2012•1 hr 15 min
What can we expect going into the new year? What is the story of the coming decade? And how can retiring Baby Boomers find some peace of mind in retirement in a desperate decade ahead.
Dec 31, 2011•50 min
Featuring European Debt Failure, China, and American Demographics.
Dec 03, 2011•51 min
5 July the WSJ reports two seemingly diametrically opposite stories - the Recovery is dismal, and Wall Street investors seem to be loving it. In this show find out how the stock market can be so UP, while the US economy is do DOWN.
Jul 14, 2011•50 min
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 up to make a point.
Apr 10, 2011•50 min
In this show, Bruce Weide and Kirk Cox explore whether the Baby Boomgeneration will actually ever enjoy a period of life where one'sassets can be a sole source of income, or whether working until our70's or 80's is more the lot of the Booomers.Several major challenges are identified and address.
Feb 10, 2011•57 min
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 miscalculate.
Jan 30, 2011•50 min
Hey, guess what? I think people are tired about hearing about theeconomy!So this week we are going back to the basics of retirement planning.Listen to this show where Bruce covers the Money Matrix - a litmustest you can apply to any investment for retirement!
Jan 26, 2011•50 min
