The Real Investment Show Podcast

Market Response to Fed Minutes' release; definitions of Bear and Bull markets; Newsroom/"America Isn't Great Anymore;" The importance of Capitalism = economic prosperity; Michael Lebowitz - Fed's light-speed activities; Why recessions are needed; The Fed's problems: Liquidity Continuance and Credit Markets; Record Levels of Corporate Debt, slowed economic growth; Why Companies should be allowed to fail; Surviving Stay-at-Home Orders; Moderno stock; Coming up with Vaccines; valuations matter--what's the market worth? Forebearances & Delinquencies

A quotation from Ayn Rand on the demise of society launches RIA Advisors Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts and Certified Financial Planner, Danny Ratliff, CFP, into the flaws of the American political and corporate system, and what will be required to reverse course.

Lance Roberts' all-American rant: We're already Communist America; The Great Moderno Stock Offering scam; Free Government Money; The Folly of Corporate Tax Cuts; Gov't is run by corporations; Ayn Rand:We're Doomed." Is Biden the best that we can get? How Congress really works; How to fix the wealth-gap & debt problems; Webinar recap: What to do w 401-K's; the death of the stretch IRA;

It's no wonder American households are emulating congress' habit of operating as if everything is a crisis. RIA Advisors Chief Investment Strategist, Lance Roberts, questions whether all the federal spending is really needed.

KSEV Fire--why we weren't on the air; Market re-cap: buoyancy from more Fed liquidity, Moderna COVID vaccine trials; COVID vs Flu: How we behave; The Challenge of Balancing Risk: Where/When/Why markets surprise investors--at extreme highs/lows; What is the Risk if we DON'T get a recovery? Congressional spending bill: Operating in Constant Crisis-mode; No Budget, No Plan, No Strategy for getting out of Debt; Consequences a basic income; When We Re-open: DeutscheBank Survey; potential for shift to more work at home--impact to comm'l real estate and economy;

There's no real desire to cut spending in Congress because spending tax dollars is what keeps members getting re-elected. RIA Advisors Chief Investment Strategist, Lance Roberts, details the architecture of the Fed's tactics to transfer wealth under the guise of "saving" the economy--what it's going to cost you--and a heads-up on proposed legislation that could be a death knell for small land lords.

Preparing for Memorial Day--holiday from lock-down? Jerome Powell on 60-Minutes; Market recap & Negative GDP estimates; Rules for Re-Entry; Jerome Powell excerpt; Economic Recovery--what is Recession; JC Penny bankruptcy is what should happen; Jerome Powell--printing money digitally; Why the Fed Needs a Crisis; if we're re-opening, the crisis is past; Why There's No Desire to Cut Federal Spending; interest rates a function of supply & demand; Why Fed may "cap" rates; wealth transfer; consequences of spending bill on Landlords

Back in the (pre-COVID) day; LA Closes indefinitely; Market performance defies logic amid record unemployment; no historic connections between pandemic and economic failure; The Effects of Quarantine: Families, Marriages, Businesses; Paradox of Thrift; Jerome Powell describes the unemployed: "Shadow;" Medicare Enrollment; Sunspots, Spring, and mosquitoes that look like Betty Grable; Managing Risk;

Did the Federal Reserve over-react to the Coronavirus Pandemic? RIA Advisors Chief Investment Strategist, Lance Roberts, w Portfolio Manager, Michael Lebowitz, CFA, compare scenarios, with some disconcerting conclusions.

Covid Traffic; Biggest Risk to Recovery is Secondary Infections; the Fed's temporary fixes vs long-term solutions; Michael Lebowitz: The Bond Market is working better than Stocks; Did the Fed over-react to Covid? The Fed as ultimate arbiter of fixed rates vs free market; long term consequences; The Ides of May; heading into summer months; what we're doing w portfolios; compression of treasury yields;