STW Radio was born out of the crisis of 2008 and was the mission of its host, Bruce Weide, to fill a massive void in most American's retirement portfolio. This safety net would have literally saved them any grief in the crash of '08-'09 and let them pick right back up on the historic gains from there. America seems to believe that investment risk is a thing of the past. But STW Radio is dedicated to reporting all sides to the stories that matter to those close to retirement or in retirement. ...
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Your Financial Advisor Needs to See the Future! - Episode 83
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No one can tell the future, right? Well frankly, your financial advisor will be made or broken on whether they can just do that! In this episode, Bruce goes into why it is so important for financial advisors to buy their own BS, but rather, to always question and doubt. Bruce looks forward to ask "Is the next Recession of 2024 coming, or has the go…
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Going Live, Buying Starbucks and Taking Calls
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This week I came into the KVTA Ventura studios and decided to broadcast live and take calls. I really want to know what YOU want to hear about! I started to get into David Stockman and the difference between how the markets and economy appear and what Mr. Stickman thinks they're really doing. BUT...the phones kept ringing and YOU ALL are much more …
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There's a feeling out there that the investments markets have weak underpinnings, and that soon, the tides will change. Maybe. But do you understand why some pundits feel that way? With historically low unemployment, high prime-age workforce, and so thereby monetized consumers, what could go wrong? Extreme global levels of debt. That's what. Now, I…
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After a lifetime of accumulation of savings and wealth, for retirees the entire games changes to the spending of wealth. So how does your portfolio provide for you then? In the past retirees have leaned heavily on income producing assets, such as dividends and bonds. Dividend payments have particular frailties. They're never guaranteed and, as show…
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The Death of Bonds in a Negative Interest Rate World
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If what Alan Greenspan says is true, we are heading into a whole new uncharted world of financial planning and asset allocation. In this episode hear Alan Greenspan in Sept of 2019 declare: 1.) The US GDP is driven by the US Stock Market! (The OPPOSITE of how it has ever been). 2.) Negative Interest Rates WILL COME to the U.S. It's only a matter of…
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What Every Senior Should Know About Medicare. The devil is in the details.
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We've never covered this topic before, but every single person age 64 1/2 should be paying close attention. Medicare rules are changing. Rates are changing. Benefits for Medicare Advantage and Medicare Supplements are changing. This week, Bruce brings in Ventura's leading Consultant on Medicare, Jessica Jones, to discuss why your Medicare coverage …
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Bears vs Bulls - David Stockman vs Logan Mohtashami
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As the US Economy achieves it's longest ever period of expansion, only one of two great stories can be told! Overloaded with private and public debt, and a decade of stimulus, we will soon see the greatest bubble burst in all of US History. The Federal Reserve has done a phenomenal job, the economy has never looked better, America is the greatest e…
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Inflation Ahead? Deflation? It damn well matters!
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The core issue of this macro-economy, the driver of every tactical investment decision boils down to whether we have inflation or deflation ahead. That single issue affects stocks, bonds, banks, real estate and metals. No single investment choice can escape this fulcrum of balance in the economy. In this episode Bruce discusses the ongoing pressure…
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The Current Direction of the US Economy: Boom or Bust?
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The U.S. economy is currently in the midst of the longest expansion in history. But for retiring Boomers, or those near retirement, it's not about where we've come from, but about where we're going! Boomers don't have any room left for another decade of mistakes in their saving or investing strategy. Of course, there are only two answers - Growth o…
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Re-Thinking the Fundamentals / Free Tools to Help Calculate Your Own Retirement Withdrawals
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In anything you're trying to master, the fundamentals of the subject are the first thing to fully grasp and become comfortable with. Baseball? Practice your hitting, fielding, double-plays, over and over and over again, and you've got a shot at winning games. Musician? Practice your scales, arpeggios, and chord structure to get good at your instrum…
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Lazy Money - Episode #2: Easy Interest Upgrades on Savings Accounts
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How much of your cash is earning less than 2%? That's easy enough to fix! In this episode Bruce shows how just getting small increases in your interest bearing savings accounts makes big returns over not so much time. Learn how to turn your money in 0.5% CD's at the bank into something better with 2%, 2.5% or even 3.7%. Learn how to get the fees ou…
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How much of your money is earning less than 2%? That's LAZY MONEY and there is no reason for it! Too many people are sitting on huge sums of cash earning practically nothing, only because they can't strategically make up their mind on how to build their portfolios for Income, Growth, and Liquidity! In this episode Bruce demonstrates that the cost o…
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The 3 Greatest Risks to Running Out of Savings in Retirement
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WARNING: Your stock and fund broker would prefer you did NOT listen to this episode of Straight Talk Wealth Radio! The fact is that there are 3 key erosion factors to any retirement portfolio that your wealth manager might be able to guess how to manage against, but they can never guarantee the outcome. If you live too long, or if you plan on a por…
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As Boomer Need for Long Term Care Insurance Explodes, Insurers' Finances Implode
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Presently, !0,000 Baby Boomers A DAY turn 65 in the U.S., and it will continue until the year 2030! At that time there will be more people old people (over 65) in the U.S. than young people (18 and under) for the first time ever in the history of the country! Stats show that 7 out of 10 retirees will need Long Term Care (LTC) support services at so…
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Annuities are LONG-TERM contracts! And annuity salesmen are well-trained to always "Sell the Sizzle"! They talk about great features, but omit the details. How long are your funds tied up? What benefits do you think you are getting for that? Why would your annuity salesperson show you just one or two models when there could be dozens to consider? W…
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Don't Buy an Annuity! - 30 Second Spot for 2019-03-03 Show on KVTA
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This week's show is going to rattle some cages!By Bruce M. Weide
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STW Radio RETURNS! Wall Street Journal series: The UnPrepared Boomers!
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Our first Episode back on the airwaves at Newstalk 1590 KVTA, Ventura, CA since 2016! Bruce discusses what is new in the ALL NEW Straight Talk Wealth Radio! This week, featuring the ongoing Wall Street Journal series about retiring Baby Boomers, entitled "The Unprepared". Bruce excerpts the first article in the series and discusses how Boomers are …
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Annuity Wars - State of Calif Aims to Gut the Best Performing Annuities
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California State insurance regulators have acted to remove some of the best performing annuity products from the California market starting on 1 January, 2017. I have never seen this much warfare against American Savers since Ben Bernanke destroyed the interest rate market to force retirees back into stocks, no matter the risk. Folks, there is a WA…
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The Peak of Globalization and What Happens Next: Exclusive Interview with Harry S. Dent
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For decades the world has been marching deeper and deeper into the globalization solution. NAFTA, the Euro, the rise of China,the TPP, etc, etc. But there have been repercussions, from the loss of manufacturing in the US, to the Euromess to clean up the debt-ridden southern European countries by Germany and the other northern European countries. An…
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Strategies for a World Turned Upside Down - Episode 3
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Breaking News about the The Global Banking Crisis 2.0 in this show! European Debt levels show massive private sector bank debt with massive loan non-performance, and tells us how Europe will become a Global Crisis that will swamp Mario Draghi. And Janet Yellen won't be able to do a thing about it.Bruce then tells very specifically the tactical chan…
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Strategies for a World Turned Upside Down (Episode 2)
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This episode opens with a review of Jon Hilsenrath's Wall Street Journal article about the failures of the Federal Reserve to revive the economy and the question of whether they really know what they can even do about it in the end. Then Bruce turns right back to "What do you DO about it?"By Bruce M. Weide
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Strategies for a World Turned Upside Down
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Bruce got tired of telling you that things are going to change. In this episode he starts telling you more explicitly what to DO about it in your own portfolio.By Bruce M. Weide
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JANUARY 2016 - Three major events were hurling markets down 10% in single month! The China Bubble, The Oil Glut, The Fed is Out of Bullets! And as fast as they rattled the markets, 5 months later it seems that these concerns are a distant dream. Are the stories gone? Are we back on a year of growth? Or will China and Oil come back to haunt us again…
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2016 - Year of Crisis or Recovery? Has Risk Left the Market?
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In the lead up to our Oxnard event on June 25th, hear an exclusive interview with economist Harry S. Dent. Bruce asks Harry about why the markets calmed after January 2016. The China Bubble, The Oil Glut, Fed Reserve out of bullets. Did these stories just go away or are they still major risks today?By Bruce Weide
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Listen to Straight Talk Wealth Radio! (30 sec promo)
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For your listening enjoyment!By Bruce M. Weide
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A Look Behind the Wizard's Curtain! An Interview with John Truman Wolfe
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Is the international economic crisis a carefully orchestrated strategy to gain control of the world’s finances?What if the current financial crisis was not caused by unforeseen random events, but was instead a carefully orchestrated assault on the US Dollar, designed to cripple the American economy and ultimately gain complete control of the world’…
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After the great setback of 10% in January of 2016, by the end of the first quarter, it seemed liked all of the noise just suddenly stopped. Markets rebounded and didn’t look back.So what happened to the story? What about the “China Bubble”? What about depressed oil prices getting ready to crush banks who loaned the frackers up to $1 trillion that w…
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Bruce is determined to infuriate his colleagues. In the issue Bruce walks you through the most common financial sales presentations currently being huckstered at the free steak dinners that are so popular today. Most of these events are promoted through mass mailed invitations or even other radio shows. And while there is substantial content in the…
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This episode features a startling collection of predictions from David Stockman (Former Director of the Office of Management and Budget - Reagan Administration), Mohammed el-Erian (chief economic adviser at Allianz), Jim Rogers (Chairman of Rogers Holdings and Beeland Interests), Donald Trump. These are just a few of the experts, the "Smart Money" …
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The Great Gold BUST Ahead - Exclusive Interview with Harry S. Dent
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2016 starts off with "Mom & Pop 401K" shaking in their boots! If the markets fall this year, let alone the global economy, will gold be the answer? Harry Dent says authoritatively, "No Way!" Find out why Deflation must defeat gold. Listen to Dent's bold prediction in this interview for gold to reach $700/oz. by 2017 and even $350/oz. by 2023!…
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David M. Walker - The State of the Union's Finances - and YOUR Retirement Assumptions
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Exclusive interview with former Comptroller USA, The Honorable David M Walker. Mr Walker is the former Public Trustee for the Social Security anf Medicare accounts, former head of the General Accountability Office of Congress, appointed by President Clinton and servings also under G.W Bush. This episode begins one of several where Bruce interviews …
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GLOBAL RUMBLINGS: More of Harry S. Dent on China's Massive Bubble - plus Falling US Real Estate Values to Come
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We've added some new reports from Harry Dent's "Markets & Economy" newsletters.By Bruce M. Weide
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The Thief in the Night - Harry S. Dent on China's Massive Bubble - plus Falling US Real Estate Values to Come
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Hear Bruce's exclusive interview with Harry S. Dent about the depth of the massive Chinese bubble in real estate that has now blown into Chinese stocks. Learn how the Chinese Communist parry is poised to lose control of their top-down crony capitalism in the bursting of their phony investment bubbles so big, it threatens to begin a global economic …
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Thief in the Night UPDATE with Harry Dent: China's Real Influence
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Exclusive interview with economist Harry Dent regarding China's real potential to crash US Markets. Leading into a new event in Oxnard on 10 October.By Bruce M. Weide
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Maximizing Social Security Benefits; plus The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of Medicare - EPISODE 1
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Leading up to our local workshop in September, Bruce discusses how utterly dependent most Americans will be for Social Security retirement benefits, when the actual income generated by Social Security is poverty level income. In the second half of this show Bruce introduces one of the most authoritative speakers in the US on Medcare benefits Alvin …
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Nicole Gelinas - Entire Uncut Interview for Podcast Subscribers Only!
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Exclusive interview with Senior Fellow at Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Nicole Gelinas. I recently discovered Ms. Gelinas on a video she produced with Prager University on why governement should not bail out the big banks. 1.) How we got here, markets addicted to government bailouts and stimulus; 2.) Why don't we fear the BOOM? What inve…
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Nicole Gelinas - After the Fall - Saving Capitalism from Wall Street and Washington EPISODE #2
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Exclusive interview with Senior Fellow at Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Nicole Gelinas. I recently discovered Ms. Gelinas on a video she produced with Prager University on why government should not bail out the big banks. This is Part 2 of my two-part interview with her. In this episode we discussed 1.) Where is the trail from Fed money …
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Nicole Gelinas - Saving Capitalism from Wall Street - And Washington
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Exclusive interview with Senior Fellow at Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Nicole Gelinas. I recently discovered Ms. Gelinas on a video she produced with Prager University on why governement should not bail out the big banks. This is Part 1 of my two-part interview with her. In this episode we discussed 1.) How we got here, markets addicted…
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A Thief in the Night! - Why the Next Great Crash is Inevitable by 2020! EPISODE 3
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In this final episode in the run-up to our July 18th workshop, Bruce covers new ground never featured before: What risk is Greece to American Investors: how the Chinese Bubble has shifted from condos to stocks, with the Shen Zin exchange being up 120% on the year while Chinese GDP growth continues to contract; and billionaire investor Carl Icahn's …
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Hear an exclusive recording of David Stockman speaking at the Dent Research "Irrational Economics" summit in October 2014, where he describes the current stock market as "A one-way casino dragging the economy closer and closer to the brink". Also features Bruce's exclusive one on one interview with Harry Dent. PLUS SHOCKING details about massive re…
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A Thief in the Night - Why the Next Stock Market Crash is Inevitable by 2020
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Featuring an exclusive interview with economist Harry S. Dent, and excerpts from former White house Budget Director David Stockman, hear the release of a major Southern California Event. Hear why Global Quantitative Easing can NOT go on forever,and how it will end. Hear two very different views of how investors should protect themselves. Get OUT of…
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Dollar UP? Oil CHEAP? China SLOWING? Harry Called it Years Ago!
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March 2015 Interview with Harry S. Dent where I review several forecast e made that were unbelievable at the start of 2014, and were the irrefutable FACT just a year later. Harry tells us where we will be a year from now.By Bruce M. Weide
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David Stockman on The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America
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In Episode 2, the country's leading Asset Protection Attorney, Douglas Lodmell, reviews what techniques work and what don't work to protect your wealth from frivolous lawsuits. Lawyers have turned the legal system into an industrial size extortion racket over the last generation. Doctors, contractors, employers, and construction company owners are …
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Lawyers have turned the legal system into an industrial size extortion racket over the last generation. Doctors, contractors, employers, and construction company owners are particularly at risk. Follow the thread of how the "ambulance chasers" have come to usurp the system, how the scam is run today, and most importantly, what works and what does n…
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The China Crisis - How the Coming Collapse of China Will Cause a Global Economic Depression - EPISODE 3
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The China Crisis - How the Coming Collapse of China Will Cause a Global Economic Depression - EPISODE 2
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The China Crisis - How the Coming Collapse of China Will Cause a Global Economic Depression - EPISODE 1
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Maximizing Social Security - The Most Important Financial Decisions You Will Make
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For most working Americans, Social Security s going to provide a VITAL foundation to their retirement. But few realize that there are several strategic decisions on how and when to collect Social Security that can cost you or benefit you the difference of hundreds of thousands of dollars in a lifetime. This show is classroom style, taken from Bruce…
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2 conflicting articles in the Wall Street Journal get published, and together they are foretelling. Includes exclusive interview with Harry S. Dent.By Bruce M. Weide
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