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These days, the Federal Reserve is walking a knife’s edge. High inflation is forcing its hand, and to tame it, the Fed has returned to Quantitative Tightening, hiking rates by 0.25% and promising 6-7 more hikes within this year. But if the Fed hikes too much too fast, it risks driving the economy — which has been slowing dramatically recently — into recession. A painful recession or persisting inflation. The Fed may very likely be forced to permit one in order to contain the other. If indeed faced with that choice, which one will Fed Chair Jerome Powell pick? For an answer to this vital yet very tricky question, we were very lucky to get the chance to sit down with macro researcher Jim Bianco. See the YouTube Video for the charts and graphics: https://youtu.be/XSfKreBuH38 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Few people (perhaps none!) understand interest rates like Jim does and he confirms we're in uncharted territory. In this video, he shares his predictions on what will come next during this "wild time in money" and offers several assets today's investor would do well to consider. Initially recorded on 1.19.22, this discussion with Wall Street legend James Grant first aired at Wealthion's online conference back in January. See the YouTube Video for the charts and graphics: https://youtu.be/ojh0Nb2RYE0 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The price of gold hit an intra-day record high of $2,078.80/oz two weeks ago. Though the price has since retreated to $1,925/oz, GoldSilver.com's precious metals analyst Jeff Clark says that's just a healthy retracement and that he expects new record highs ahead. One reason for that is because M-A activity is finally heating back up in the gold mining sector. After many years of underinvestment, the sector is now starved of available supply right as demand is rising. It takes a long time for the "major" mining companies to bring new mines into production, so it's much faster for them to simply purchase smaller players with proven projects already underway. And even non-mining companies are getting into the action, as evidenced by the recent surprise purchase of Hycroft Mining by meme stock darling AMC Theaters. See the YouTube Video for the charts and graphics: https://youtu.be/HM3NbRKQ9Zc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's episode, Lance makes the case that the US is about to enter (or is already in) a recession, based on the forward-looking indicators he monitors. Lance Roberts of RIA Advisors joins Adam Taggart to summarize the notable developments in the financial markets over the past week. See the YouTube Video for the charts and graphics: https://youtu.be/D3Rb1eSvOV4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Part 2 of our interview with former bond portfolio manager Alfonso Peccatiello, he transparently shares how his portfolio is positioned right now, as the Federal Reserve embarks on its new Quantitative Tightening campaign, potentially hiking interest rates seven times in 2022. See the YouTube Video for the charts and graphics: https://youtu.be/ldXnQumL6ls Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Wall Street it's often said the bond market is where the smart money resides. After decades of rising prices and declining yields, a secular reversal may now be in play. Yields have been steadily rising since the pandemic lows in 2020 and now the Federal Reserve and other world central banks are embarking on interest rate hikes. To find out what the bond market is telling us about the future it sees ahead we welcome macro analyst and former portfolio manager Alfonso Peccatiello to the program. See the YouTube Video for the charts and graphics: https://youtu.be/JtyECvIf_Jg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and SpaceX, and Warren Buffett, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, have both held the top honor of “World’s Richest Person”. Musk currently retains the title at around $220 billion in net worth. Buffett hasn’t held it since 2008, though he’s still doing OK – he’s current fifth on the list at around $120 billion. These two moguls have extremely different personalities and approaches to building wealth – Buffett the avuncular oracle with a slow and steady hand on the tiller, Musk the brilliant and reckless maverick. Those differences have sometimes spilled into the headlines, with the media eager to sense a feud between these two titans. Famously, Buffett has referred to Bitcoin as “rat poison squared” while Musk has often endorsed it and other cryptocurrencies. But based on recent comments both have made, they both agree on the following: inflation is becoming a real problem. See the YouTube Video for the charts and graphics: https://youtu.be/4QsVEhQENJk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As the Russian invasion into Ukraine continues into its 3rd week, despite the world's hopes for resolution uncertainty continues to grow. What will the geopolitical situation look like after a cease-fire is declared? IF one is declared. How badly will the trade disruptions with Russia worsen inflation, given Russia's role as a top exporter for many key commodities? Are we weakening the US dollars' role as the global reserve currency by giving other nations cause to accelerate their efforts to de-dollarize? The cost of capital is increasing as interest rates are on the rise -- right as we anticipate the Federal Reserve to kick off a new era of Quantitative Tightening at its meeting this week. Are a further correction in the markets and possibly a recession now more likely as a result? To help us understand what is likely to emerge from all this swirling uncertainty, we welcome Peter Boockvar, Chief Investment Officer at Bleakley Advisory Group and Editor of The Boock Report. See the YouTube Video for the charts and graphics: https://youtu.be/qlEpEVKZeAM Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lance Roberts of RIA Advisors joins Adam Taggart to summarize the notable developments in the financial markets over the past week. In this week's episode, Lance explains the 3 phases of a bear market and why it's likely we're in Phase 1 right now. A near-term bounce from here is likely (Phase 2), but then may roll over into a deeper, steeper down cycle (Phase 3) See the YouTube Video for the charts and graphics: https://youtu.be/1C1FDrW1M0E Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bonds, stocks, real estate - nearly every asset class is in a speculative price bubble claims legendary investor and hard assets guru Jim Rogers in Part 2 of our recent interview with him. Commodities are the one exception. Even after the dramatic price spikes seen recently in oil, gas, wheat, gold, silver, etc -- Rogers still calculates they are dramatically undervalued relative to all other assets. See the YouTube Video for the charts and graphics: https://youtu.be/c2pWtp7MpM0 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices