The Retirement Trainer

With inflation lingering and still impacting our purchasing power, it’s time to ask ourselves: Is it time to invest in gold and precious metals? This begs the question, how much should you have in your portfolio?

In today’s episode, we discuss why yields are going up despite interest rates going down, why weaponizing the US dollar will dramatically change how we live, and how to make alt...

 

Today, I’m excited to welcome Jim Rogers back on the podcast. Jim is the bestselling author of The Investment Biker, an economist and investor, globetrotter, and multiple Guinness World Record holder with a very unique perspective on the global economy, and how things are going.

In this episode, you’ll hear Jim’s thou...

Today’s guest is world-renowned economist Dr. Arthur Laffer. Arthur is a former member of Ronald Reagan’s economic council, inventor of the Laffer Curve, and author of Taxes Have Consequences.

Among his many accomplishments, he helped define Prop 13 in California, consulted with several Presidents, including Nixon, Cheney, Trump, and Thatcher, and has spent most of his life studying econ...

It’s no secret that Social Security is a significant issue in this country. But what’s worse is that many people are unaware of how to maximize the Social Security benefits they paid into throughout a lifetime of hard work. 

Today, we’re talking about worst-case scenarios with Larry Kotlikoff. Larry is a professor of ec...

America’s ongoing housing problems have impacted the lives of so many people–including today’s guest, Dr. Ben Carson.

Before becoming a renowned pediatric surgeon or the 17th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2017 to 2021, he faced many challenges as he and his aunt and uncle moved between Detroit and Boston.

In this interview, we discuss Dr. Carson’s run for ...

The typical retirement portfolio has operated on a 60/40 split between equities and bonds for many years–but this traditional approach has cost retirees a lot of money over the past few years.

Our goal with today’s episode is to help answer two questions: when is the right time to add more bonds to your portfolio, and w...

Jim Rogers made a name for himself co-founding the Quantum Fund, but became the “Investment Biker” when he took a 22-month, 52-country journey business trip by motorcycle. 

A so-called “adventure capitalist,” Jim has published several books, driven all over the world, and achieved remarkable success. In our conversation...

Millions of Americans are still feeling the pinch of high gas and grocery costs. Mortgages rates have climbed to a high of 8% for 30 years, and credit card rates and balances are impacting the ability to absorb the new cost of living. We’ve been talking about inflation for several years now, but we’ve never had a chance to discuss it with a true titan of fi...

Every day we’re bombarded with harmless-looking emails promising free gifts or things that are too good to be true. The phone rings and we get asked to update information we didn’t know anything about. Where is this coming from? When it comes to your sensitive information, who can you trust, and what’s real? 

Today, we’...

The more things change, the more they stay the same. We’re still dealing with high inflation and interest rates and the silent recession continues with the average household still feeling the pinch at the grocery stores and gas pumps.

And now, the Federal Government says that we’re in a deflationary period while adding $1 trillion to the national debt every quarter. Which begs the questi...

With 30-year mortgage rates at 7.5%, inflation continuing to impact our spending power, and gas pushing almost $4 a gallon, we’re seeing higher bankruptcy rates and hearing talk of a lost decade. So what do we do to keep our financial plan as healthy as possible? 

In today’s episode, we’re talking about what’s going on in America–and the silent recession that is affecting everyone except...