The Real Investment Show Podcast

Market Performance and appropriate portfolio management; when you sell on the news, what do you do with the money? Social Security changes and telephone scams; Eating Dogfood; investor/advisor complacency; financial literacy and backdoor taxes; FICO Scoring, realistic debt-to-income ratios; making good social Security decisions.

President Trump says lower interest rates would spur economic growth above 4%; but if that were the case, how does he explain the past several years of near-zero percent interest rates, with GDP stubbornly clinging to 2% growth? RIA Advisors Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts w Portfolio Manager Michael Lebowitz, CFA, examine the proof.

The Cigna Survey on Loneliness and Social Media; Impeachment; Aaron Hernandez; Emotional Support Animals limitations; Coronavirus impact on economic growth; forecasts lowered for 26th time; China vs US Birthrates; Michael Lebowitz on The Fed vs Donald Trump--who's right? Lower rates = higher GDP growth? who really benefits from Trump tax cuts; Creeping Along to MMT; pulling forward future economic growth; economy is predicated on debt.

What happens when a group of ultra-wealthy activists jointly sign a letter to the Davos Economic Summit participants, advocating for public policy in order to avoid dealing with pitchforks wielded by the poor?

Want to know what keeps the Fed up at night? A problem of such enormity, most cannot even comprehend that mass and scale. RIA Advisors Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts sets the landscape for what could potentially be a catastrophic economic event.

The Impeachment Trial Parade continues; the dance at Davos meanders on;. pundits proclaim a "Goldilocks Economy," while 84% of the population derives no direct benefit from a surging stock market; the Patriot Millionaires Group letter to Davos: Raise Taxes on the Rich; the problem of the US Debt Balloon; would lower interest rates really boost GDP, as President Trump has said? Dark Tech, Elections, the Clinton's and the power of Google (and behind the scenes, what we deal with regularly with censorship by Facebook, YouTube, and Google.)

The Impeachment Trial of President Trump; Davos Financial Summit focus on Climate Change instead; The Corona Virus & The Zombie Apocalypse; Chinese New Year of the Rat (1/25) "Outbreak" Movie; Email Answers: What the Fed is Doing; Corporate Debt levels; What the Fed is Afraid of; Coming Asteroid 2003-YT-1; Larry Kudlow on Tax Cut Benefits; Household Debt Ratios.

The Federal Reserve is stuck in a problem of its own making, an "economic liquidity trap," with monetary policy now ineffective in stimulating growth, as RIA Advisors Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts discusses w Portfolio Manager, Michael Lebowitz, CFA.

Market commentary and the oven analogy; Value Investing in the current market; Richard's new pick-up line; the Financial Vulnerability Cushion; Planning Against the Fed; Januhairy; Women's HSA's and healthcare expenses

"Ignoring problems rarely solves them." -John Mauldin The problem with this extended run of low interest rates is that it has encouraged a mis-allocation of capital. And what does "Quantitative Easing" REALLY mean? #FedGibberish