Wealthion - Be Financially Resilient

Right now we're living in a world of all-time high asset prices -- just look at stocks, housing and cryptocurrencies to name just a few. They've all rocketed higher in 2021. Wages are suddenly rising faster than they have in many years, too. Are these the new Roaring 20's? Will we enjoy a prolonged period of prosperity from here? Or is the current party not sustainable? Skeptics worry that spiking inflation, fast-slowing economic growth, accelerating wealth inequality, snarled supply chains, energy shortages, too much leverage and too much financialization are putting the system at danger of another reckoning like the Great Recession. Who's likely to be proven right? The optimists or the skeptics? To delve deep with us into this is Stephanie Pomboy, founder of MacroMavens, a pre-eminent economic research firm, and one of my most favorite people to interview. See the YouTube Video for the charts and graphics: https://youtu.be/wbjDccuIGyA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here in Part 2 of this interview with economic macro researcher Stephanie Pomboy, Stephanie shares how she is positioning her own portfolio today for the volatile times she expects ahead. She owns no US equities except precious metals mining companies. Her largest position is physical gold, held along with Emerging Markets equities from countries with natural resource-based economies, energy stocks, and long-dated US Treasurys. See the YouTube Video for the charts and graphics: https://youtu.be/S4cLPkt7J3Q Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Interested in protecting the purchasing power of your wealth from inflation, learning how the US dollar and other world currencies are likely to perform from here, the roles of gold silver and cryptocurrencies, or whether the Federal Reserve and other central banks are going to soon issue digital currencies (CBDCs)? Then watch this video. Recently, I had the pleasure of hosting a panel on The Future Of Money at the New Orleans Investment Conference. It had an absolute killer line-up: Jim Rickards, Danielle DiMartino Booth, Jon Najarian and Russell Gray. See the YouTube Video for the charts and graphics: https://youtu.be/-fWipAqzOSI Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this Part 2 of our interview with Rabobank Global Strategist Michael Every, Michael lays out what he thinks are the biggest structural changes that will be made to the global economy once the next crisis hits. He then warns that now, before the next crisis arrives, is a time for investors to prioritize capital preservation. He favors cash, safe havens like US Treasurys and commodities -- especially productive farmland. See the YouTube Video for the charts and graphics: https://youtu.be/pVVzsn0Zw20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Every, Global Strategist at Rabobank, returns to the program to discuss the trap the world's central banks are in. Spiking inflation resulting from their stimulus policies is colliding with slowing economic growth. Their choice at this point is to impoverish the public through rising costs (and eventually so kill the economy) by continuing to stimulate, or plunge the debt-burdened economy direction into recession or depression by tightening. He also gives us a wide-ranging perspective on the developments in Asia (and China, in particular) and why the current lines of trade and supply chains will need to be re-drawn. See the YouTube Video for the charts and graphics: https://youtu.be/-WyEPltVWMM Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Perhaps no single institution has more impact on the global economy than the US Federal Reserve. And the $trillions in stimulus it and the other major world central banks have released since the COVID pandemic hit have made the system even more dependent upon its actions. Which is why our financial markets are understandably obsessed with a single question: What is the Fed likely to do next? To help us answer that, I'm thrilled that Danielle DiMartino Booth is returning to the program. Danielle is CEO and Chief Strategist for Quill Intelligence LLC, and was a former advisor to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas -- so she knows that institution, as well as the people running it, well. See the YouTube Video for the charts and graphics: https://youtu.be/3FjQpXsM0Lo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here in Part 2, Fed-watcher Danielle DiMartino Booth explains why the Fed is guaranteed to make a policy mistake no matter what decision it makes here. Taper or tightening interest rates will lead to an economic slowdown or recession that will pop the current bubble in financial assets. A continuation or resumption of monetary stimulus will worsen the growing inflation problem. Markets will be the collateral damage to the Fed's decision. Which is why Danielle recommend investors get defensive and, at the very least, start hedging any long positions they hold. See the YouTube Video for the charts and graphics: https://youtu.be/oh1x4SOZlU0 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The disruption the pandemic has inflicted on global supply chains is really starting to harm consumers. Prices for most items are up double digits in the past year. And product shortages are rampant these days. How much longer is this pain for our pocketbooks likely to last? The world has been watching prices rise dramatically this year across nearly all asset classes -- in large part caused by the $trillions in monetary and fiscal stimulus flooding into the economy as well as the disruption of global supply chains caused by the COVID pandemic. But not only are consumers experiencing rising prices at the store, they're increasingly finding empty shelves, too. On the supply side, things have become so bad that today guest expert, Wolf Richter, has coined the term "The Everything Shortage" to describe the era we're now entering. See the YouTube Video for the charts and graphics: https://youtu.be/Pw51DqC-cQE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

They say history rhymes. That civilizations and societies tend to follow cycles -- boom/bust, feast/famine, war/peace, cultural experimentation/a retrenchment to the “old ways”. Neil Howe, the author of the best-selling book The Fourth Turning, lays out his prediction that today’s society has entered the "bust" part of our current cycle -- where the status quo falls apart -- often chaotically -- to be replaced by a new, hopefully better, order. What should we expect from this period of disruption? Are there steps we can take to improve our odds of persevering? See the YouTube Video for the charts and graphics: https://youtu.be/K8Ndnpfw69w Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here in Part 2, famed researcher and demographer Neil Howe, co-author of the best-selling book The Fourth Turning, explains why the weight of history strongly suggests we are headed into a decade-plus period of economic and social disruption that will transform our political, economic, financial and social systems. Volatility will reign. Crushing inflation looks likely. We may see a stock market crash and widespead job losses. Perhaps even war. But as with all preceding fourth turnings, Howe predicts we'll come of it ok. Yes, with some bruises; but likely also with some net improvements for society. See the YouTube Video for the charts and graphics: https://youtu.be/eAuGfUli0gs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices