The Real Investment Show Podcast

With the current market free fall, you may begin getting calls from annuity salesmen with a "guarantee" of returns that seem too good to be true. They are. And here's what you should ask... RIA Advisors Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts w Certified Financial Planner, Danny Ratliff, CFP.

Grocery Deliveries, Job Stats, and how Work is being redefined by Covid-19; Did the Fed move too soon to inject more liquidity? No idea where the bottom is. Danny's Theme Song; Where's the bottom? Take action but be careful; Debt markets to be downgraded, selling into illiquid market; Why Helicopter Money won't work; Controlling Risk in a Frozen Market; Protection of Capital; Watch out for Annuity Salesmen; Annuities should be planned for, not sold. Tom Brady: Walk Away; What's happening in markets is not as important as Credit Spreads; What happens if Quarantines last more than a month? What happens next?

Before companies come asking for bailouts, should not they first sell-off their bought-back shares to raise capital...and then determine their needs, before asking for tax payers to shoulder their burdens? RIA Advisors Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts takes a stand.

Shut-down Tuesday: Implications of Restaurants and School Closings (for the rest of the semester); Even a little risk is too much risk; We're in a Recession Now; Goldman stats on Covid-19; Managing expectations between hope and reality; McDonald's playgrounds to close (probably ground zero in Wuhan was a McDonald's playground!) A Function of Fairness in Bailouts; Disco Lance; Muni Bonds and Interest payments; how to be sure your muni bonds are sound.

With schools and businesses closed for the near term, the full impact of Covid-19 has yet to be measured; shopping at Costco; Fed Cuts Rates to Zero and adds QE; Portfolio Manager Michael Lebowitz, CFA joins RIA Advisors Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts on Hunkering Down, and what the Fed may do next; Global Recession coming; How employment will look after Covid-19; investment ideas, and the consequences of rescue; Market Strategies at the open; Credit Instability still exists; Going to Money Heaven.

The Covid-19 Coronavirus will likely bankrupt more Americans than it will kill. How to respond in trouble times? RIA Advisors Director of Financial Planning, Richard Rosso, CFP, with Certified Financial Planner, Danny Ratliff, CFP, with sound advice on how to move forward.

Sticking to the basics in troubled times; Variable Assets and Risk; Passive Investing doesn't mean "safe;" Managing Your Portfolio in Difficult Times; Black Swan Events; Porn Hub freebies for quanrantinees; , Spec's, Shopping, Restaurants, Traffic; Why asking your advisor questions is okay; Live Your Life; Coronavirus will bankrupt more people than it kills.

As the Coronavirus is elevated to pandemic status, what should investors do as markets respond? RIA Advisors Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts w Portfolio Manager, Michael Lebowitz, CFA, discuss strategies and warnings all investors should heed. And wash your hands!

Market Responses to Donald Trump's Coronavirus Measures; Fastest Correction in Market History; What will the Fed do? Michael Lebowitz on anticipated market response; how credit line access creates a banking problem; lack of testing; Millennials' YOLO attitude as danger; The Silence of the Fed; Deficit to go to $2-T; Fear is more powerful than Greed;

The Federal Reserve has (had) three tools at their disposal: Interest Rates, Quantitative Easing, and Forward Guidance. RIA Advisors Chief Investment Strategist, Lance Roberts, w Certified Financial Planner, Danny Ratliff, CFP, examine their current effectiveness.