Thoughtful Money with Adam Taggart
Episodes
Why Did Stocks Just Fall 5%? | New Harbor Financial
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
WORRIED ABOUT THE MARKET? SCHEDULE YOUR FREE PORTFOLIO REVIEW with Thoughtful Money's endorsed financial advisors at https://www.thoughtfulmoney.c...
Time To Go Short The Market? | Kevin Muir
21 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On the famous fear/greed index, after spending most of the past year and half in "greed", we've suddenly switched to "fear" o...
S&P Drops Below 5000: How Much Farther Is It Likely To Fall? | Lance Roberts & Adam Taggart
20 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Well, the relentless bull rally that began in November is over. Stocks fell hard this week, with the S&P breaking below 5000 on Friday. It's n...
Get Ready For "Much Larger Swings To The Downside" | Adam Kobeissi
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The headline economic data gives a comforting sense the economy is strong. The media headlines tell us the consumer is "resilient" But if yo...
Iran vs Israel: How Worried Should We Be? | Ryan Bohl
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a live Special Report with geopolitical expert Ryan Bohl, MidEast analyst for the RANE Network. Given the serious nature of and confusion aro...
Gold Is At An All-Time High. What Does That Mean For Markets? | Axel Merk
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The price of gold has experienced a breakout over the past month and a half. What does that mean? Is that a sign that investors are worried about high...
Now That We're In Reflation: Still Be Bullish, Just Not As Much | Darius Dale
14 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When I last interviewed today's guest back in December, he said that the forecast of his proprietary model made him about "as bullish as he&#...
Stocks Have Broken Below Their Trendline. Will They Regain It? | Lance Roberts & Adam Taggart
12 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The unending string of up weeks we saw in stocks in Q1 has ended here in April. The market had a volatile week, with the S&P ending roughly 100 po...
Stocks To Fall ~20%, Recover Before The Election, Then "Drop Precipitously" | David Brady
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Q1, investors could do no wrong. Making money was easy as almost every asset class rose to new highs as markets anticipated coming interest rate cu...
The Market Is Priced For A Fairytale Economy, But Stagflation Is Much More Likely | Jesse Felder
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest expert is concerned that too many investors, giddy with the ferocious market gains since November, are increasingly willing to pay p...
Marc Faber: Most Households Are Drowning Financially While The Rich Get Richer
07 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There's a lot of uncertainty in the world right now -- geopolitical, economic, social, and environmental. At times like this when the path forwar...
Stock Rally Showing Cracks? | Lance Roberts & Adam Taggart
06 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are cracks starting to appear in the bull market rally? Portfolio manager Lance Roberts thinks so. His technical dashboard is now showing sell signals...
Former Federal Reserve Exec Thomas Hoenig: Our Money Is Dying
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Federal Reserve is one of, if not the most, significant institutions in the world given the global impact of its policy decisions. It influences ...
Prepare for S&P 6000 (And Higher) In The Coming Years-Long Bull Market | Ed Yardeni
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Stocks have delivered a great ride over the past year and a half. That has attracted retail investors back into the markets with a vengeance. Househo...
Steve Hanke: Shrinking Money Supply = Recession And Sub-2% Inflation By End Of Year
31 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When I interviewed today's guest expert back in August of 2021, when inflation was 5%, he made the bold prediction that the CPI would eventually h...
Election Uncertainty To Cause Market Correction By Summer? | Lance Roberts & Adam Taggart
30 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nearly every asset class saw gains in Q1 -- stocks, the dollar, gold, Bitcoin and real estate. Will the rally keep powering higher through the remain...
Yep, Stocks Are Back In A Bubble | Jonathan Treussard
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Animal spirits have certainly been running wild in the stock market of late. The S&P is up over 1,000 points (roughly 25%) in the past 4.5 months...
'Higher For Longer' Inflation To Upend Markets, Create Opportunities | Tavi Costa
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Recent inflation reports show that it's proving "sticky", stubbornly refusing to recede down to the target rates that central banks are ...
Gold, Not Stocks, Will Be The Best Asset As The Global Debt Crisis Unfolds | Egon von Greyerz
24 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The global economy is awash in too much debt, which continues to pile up at an exponential rate. History is clear how such eras end. The purchasing p...
Blackout Of Stock Buybacks Threatens Bullish Run | Lance Roberts & Adam Taggart
23 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As Q1 concludes, corporations are starting to enter the blackout period preventing them from buying back their stock until they've released their ...
Reaction to This Week's Federal Reserve Announcement & Press Conference | Axel Merk
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Portfolio manager & Fed-watcher Axel Merk shares his immediate take-aways from this week's FOMC release and press conference with Fed Chair Je...
Here's The Latest Outlook From Lacy Hunt, Stephanie Pomboy, Michael Pento + A Dozen Other Experts
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Well, the first-ever Thoughtful Money conference was held online this past weekend and I’m delighted to say the event was a real success. That was ...
Bill Fleckenstein: Bulls May Find Themselves "Up To Their Neck In Alligators" Soon
17 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For a long time now, passive capital inflows have powered equities higher, especially the Magnificent 7, as a tremendous percent of every new dollar t...
No Doubt About It: Stock Prices Remain Very Stretched Here | Lance Roberts & Adam Taggart
16 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Stocks pretty much ended the week where they began. Is the raging rally that has propelled stocks higher so far this year finally running out of gas?...
It's All About To Crash | David Stockman
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
To better understand the current economic environment we find ourselves in, it helps to better understand how we ended up here. And few have as detai...
Don't Fool Yourself: Higher Rates WILL Bring Pain To The Credit Markets | Alf Peccatiello
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Since the October lows, stocks have roared back to record highs, and bonds have risen solidly as US 10yr Treasury yields have dropped from 5% to near ...
Liquidity Is Still In Charge, But It's Going To Be A Bumpier Ride From Here | Michael Howell
10 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When today's guest was on this channel back in December, he explained that rising net liquidity was responsible for the surprisingly strong perfor...
'Juggernaut' Rally Ripe For A Correction | Lance Roberts & Adam Taggart
09 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Well, another week, another all-time high in stocks. Valuations are now stretched to extremes only seen near a bubble top, and volatility is low...too...
Over-Leveraged Consumers & Corporations Pose The Biggest Threat To the Economy | Neely Tamminga
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The media is full of reports that the economy is in fine shape due to a "strong" and "resilient" consumer who has held up much bet...
Ebbing Fiscal Stimulus To Cause Economic Slowdown? | Chance Finucane
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As the stock market trades at all-time highs, is this a great time to continue to ride the bull rally? Or has the getting been too good for too long?...
The Coming Year Will See Recession & A Major Correction In Stocks | Gordon Long
03 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The economy is chugging along at more robust GDP growth than many expected. Inflation has moderated and unemployment remains low. Many, including Wa...
Stock Rally 'Extremely Long In The Tooth' | Lance Roberts & Adam Taggart
02 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Investing great Ray Dalio said this week: "The stock market doesn't look very bubbly". But Bank of America just released a new report t...
Returning Inflation Is Putting The Fed In A Tough Spot | Truflation's Oliver Rust
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Inflation has been called the invisible tax. Economist John Maynard Keynes wrote that, through it, "Governments can confiscate, secretly and uno...
Markets Are In A "Speculative Blowoff", But When Will It End? | David Hay
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Back in 1996, Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan famously said: "How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, ...
Unaffordable Housing Market Still Due To Correct By 30-40% | Nick Gerli
25 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Well, the average home price in America remains just about as unaffordable as it's ever been. In fact, a recent report from real estate data prov...
Is The Ongoing Meltup A Gift? Or A Danger? | Lance Roberts & Adam Taggart
24 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The S&P is at yet another record high in a week that saw the second-biggest 1-day gain in market cap in history after Nvidia (NVDA) delighted inve...
How To Invest For Income | Steven Bavaria
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most frequent requests from Thoughtful Money viewers is for a discussion focused on investing for income. Well, that's what we're d...
'Vast Majority' Of Investors Unprepared For Coming Higher Levels Of Inflation & Risk | Bob Elliott
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After decades of moving towards increased globalization, the aftermath of the supply-chain vulnerabilities revealed by the COVID pandemic, as well as ...
The Debt Ponzi, Not Inflation, Is The True Threat | Michael Lebowitz
18 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Inflation for January rose higher than expected. Is this a one-off blip? Or is it a sign that the remaining inflation in the system is "sticky...
Odds Of Market Correction Rising As Retail 'Dumb Money' Piles In | Lance Roberts & Adam Taggart
17 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The S&P 500 is now solidly above 5,000. Stocks have shrugged off "bad" data like higher inflation numbers & disappointing retail sal...
Demographic Time Bomb: US Population On Track To Start Shrinking By 2035 | Chris Hamilton
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Narrative drives so much of the thinking today, especially when it comes to the markets. To prevent becoming unduly influenced by it, it's impor...
Passive Capital Flows Are Starting To Reverse - This Will Change Everything | Michael Green
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The officially-reported headline GDP, jobs and inflation numbers look pretty rosy right now. But how much of that is due to actual, healthy sustainab...
Grant Williams: The Economy Is At "A Dangerous Point" Where Reality Is Much Worse Than Headlines Suggest
11 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
According to the official data - be it economic growth, disinflation or jobs -- things could hardly be better. But if you talk to a regular person on...
Now That S&P 5,000 Has Been Hit, Is It Time To Lock In Gains? | Lance Roberts & Adam Taggart
10 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The S&P finally hit a new all-time high of 5,000 this week. So does this milestone give the market the green light to rocket higher? Or is this th...
Markets Could Easily Drop 30% (Or More) This Year | Steen Jakobsen, Saxo Bank CIO
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Markets seem pretty convinced that 2024 is experiencing, in the words of US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen, a soft landing. But what if everyone is ...
The Fed Is Worried. Don't Be Fooled By Powell's False Confidence | Axel Merk
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A few days ago, the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee released its latest policy decision, followed by a press conference by Fed Chair Jerome Powe...
Stocks Will Be Supported, Because If Not, All Hell Could Break Loose | Sven Henrich
04 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The bears had every opportunity to break the markets over the past few years: From a global pandemic with a broad economic shut down, to a resulting 4...
Stock Prices Now In 'Positive Feedback' Loop | Lance Roberts & Adam Taggart
03 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The S&P 500 is back to an all-time high and the NASDAQ is a hairs'-breadth away from the same. Stocks have started 2024 strong and appear now...
Lacy Hunt: Prepare For Recession, The Fed's Optimism Is Wrong
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The S&P and Nasdaq are back to all-time highs. And the recently-released Q4 GDP data beat analysts expectations, positively, by a long shot. So a...
Farmland's Long Term Return Beats Stocks & Bonds. Here's How To Invest In It | Craig Wichner
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One of the asset classes I get the most requests to do an interview on is farmland. It's a form of real estate investment that yields cash flow b...
The Market Bottom Is Not In Yet | Danielle Park
28 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
According to the latest government data, the US economy is growing faster than expected, inflation is largely under control, jobs are plentiful and c...
Will The Current Bull Stampede In Stocks Turn Into A Bearish One? | Lance Roberts & Adam Taggart
28 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
NEW!! SCHEDULE YOUR FREE PORTFOLIO REVIEW with Thoughtful Money's endorsed financial advisors at https://www.thoughtfulmoney.com The S&P just...
Debate On "Peak Cheap Oil": Fact Or Overblown Fear? | Doomberg vs Adam Rozencwajg
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A month ago, energy analyst Doomberg published a report titled "Peak Cheap Oil Is A Myth", and a few weeks back, I interviewed him about it....
Housing Market To Suffer 'Aggregate Price Decline' This Year | Melody Wright
21 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The US real estate market remains frozen. Transactions are at multi-decade lows, mortgage rates remain painfully high and home prices are at near rec...
How Bullish Is The New Market All-Time High? | Lance Roberts & Adam Taggart
20 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The S&P 500 index closed at an all-time high yesterday (1.19.24).How much of a bullish signal is that for stocks for 2024? Maybe not as big of on...
The Fed Fears A Liquidity Crisis More Than An Inflationary One | Jim Bianco
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rumors are suddenly flying fast and furious that the Federal Reserve will be soon ending its campaign of Quantitiave Tightening (aka QT). This is on ...
Avoiding Recession Won't Be Easy With The Economic Challenges In Play | Andy Constan
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's a tough time to be an investor. There are cross-currents galore in the macro data, the financial headlines, policy decision-making, and marke...
Growth Slowdown & Returning Inflation Are The Key Turning Points For 2024 | Lakshman Achuthan
14 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The real money in investing is made by those who perceive what the markets are likely to do tomorrow, and then position themselves today to profit fro...
Do Steepening Yield Curves = Recession Near? | Lance Roberts & Adam Taggart
13 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Portfolio manager Lance Roberts has long stated that it's not the inversion of the yield curve that means recession is near, it's when the cur...
Bear Market, Recession, Layoffs: Lots Of Ways For 2024 To Get Worse | John Rubino
12 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How stable is our current system -- economically, geo-politically and socially? The markets seem confident it's quite stable. But you don't ...
Will Stagflation Be The Price We Pay For A 'Soft Landing'? | Cem Karsan
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Well it's a new year and with it, I'm doing my best to bring important new voices into the discuss here at Thoughtful Money. And today we'...
Stephanie Pomboy: Will The Rise Of Moral Hazard Be Our Economic Downfall?
07 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Greed and exuberance returned to Wall Street as we ended 2023 and welcomed the start of 2024. Markets are trading near all-time highs, the Fed has sw...
Is This A Garden-Variety Pullback Or Something More Worrisome? | Lance Roberts & Adam Taggart
06 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
2024 has seen the worst start to the year for stocks in 20 years. Is this just a natural pullback from overbought extremes, or is there something more...
Expect Lower Oil Prices In The New Era Of Abundant Supply | Doomberg
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nothing happens in an economy without energy. And despite the current efforts & hopes to de-carbonize our energy systems, the world remains hea...
Darius Dale: "I'm About As Bullish As I Can Possibly Be" Looking At The Next 3 Months
02 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When I think back on all the experts I interviewed last year, the one whose market predictions played out most accurately is Darius Dale, founder &...
Jim Rogers: Before It's All Over, We'll See Higher Inflation, Higher Rates & A Wicked Bear Market
31 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The past few years have been full of surprises, often going the exact opposite way that Wall Street expected at the start of each year. Well, as we p...
Fiscal Spending Is Having A FAR Bigger Impact Than Investors Realize | Kevin Muir, The Macro Tourist
28 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We're all aware of how the pandemic threw the economy and financial markets into unprecedented disarray. And for the past two years, investors ha...
Stocks To Keep Heading Higher Until Inflation Starts Rising Again | Bloomberg's Simon White
26 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Wall Street was extremely pessimistic heading into 2023, and the year surprised to the upside. Here at the end of the year, markets are now brimming ...
Rising Liquidity To Power Markets Higher Through 2025? | Michael Howell
24 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
2023, a year nearly everyone expected a recession, has instead seen impressive economic growth and the markets power to all-time highs. How did this ...
Overbought Stock Market Likely To Pullback, Then Power Even Higher | Lance Roberts & Adam Taggart
23 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this final Weekly Market Recap of 2024, portfolio manager Lance Roberts explains why a short-term correction in stocks (and bonds, too) is highly l...
"Unhealthy" Housing Market Stuck In A Tug-Of-War | Lance Lambert
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
While 2023 was a much better year for stocks and bonds, the housing market has fared less well. Instead, 2023 was the year gravity caught up with hom...
Stocks Are Richly-Priced & The Economy Is Late-Stage, So 'Selectivity' Is Key | Cameron Dawson
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
By many calculations, the stock market has returned to rich valuations. Following one of the best Novembers in market history and now juiced by fresh...
The World Order Is Fraying. Will The Global Economy Survive? | Michael Every
17 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In my recent interview with Felix Zulauf he mentioned that we are shifting from a unipolar world order into a multipolar world dis-order.The majority ...
Is The Fed Scared Of Something They're Not Telling Us About? | Michael Lebowitz & Adam Taggart
16 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lance Robert's portfolio co-manager Michael Lebowitz kindly steps in this week while Lance is away. Like many, he was caught off guard by the Fede...
'Buy Everything!' Says Wall Street As Fed Signals 3 Rate Cuts Are Coming | Axel Merk
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Yesterday the Federal Reserve Market Committee announced it has chosen to keep the Federal Funds Rate steady for now, but when that changes, a rate cu...
Bonds Becoming "Irresistible" To Big Buyers, Prices Headed Higher | Alf Peccatiello
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bonds yields have weakened recently, making November the best month for global bonds since 2008 and for US bonds since 1985. Is this the start of a re...
Felix Zulauf: Stocks To Crash A Gut-Wrenching 40% Next Year?
10 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As 2023 begins to draw to a close, investors are feeling substantially better than they were are the start of the year. And as we enter 2024 where is...
Did The Santa Claus Rally Already Happen? Pullback Likely Ahead | Lance Roberts & Adam Taggart
09 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With such a massive run-up in stocks and bonds in November, should we still expect a Santa Claus rally in the markets this month? Or did it already ha...
Danielle DiMartino Booth: The Fed's Sins Are Finally Going To Catch Up With Us In 2024
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many of the guests appearing on this program recently, though perhaps none more than I, have warned that the Lag Effect will eventually catch up with ...
"We NEED A Recession!" Says Wolf Richter, Though He Doesn't See One Happening Soon
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There are a lot of narratives flying around right now regarding the economy, the stock market, recession risk, jobs, inflation and what's going to...
Michael Pento: "Look Out Below!" - Stocks So Overvalued Phase 2 Of Bear Market To Hit Soon
03 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Like many, today's guest was quite concerned entering 2023 that a recession was all but inevitable. But it never showed up. As the year nears it...
Is Liquidity Foiling The Fed's Efforts To Tame Inflation? | Lance Roberts & Adam Taggart
02 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's market recap, portfolio manager Lance Roberts warns that both stocks and bonds remain short-term overbought here and are likely to ...
The Future of Money | Lyn Alden, Danielle DiMartino Booth, James Rickards & Russ Gray
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Recently, I was invited to host a panel discussion on “The Future of Money: at the New Orleans Investment Conference, which has a well-earned reputa...
Simon Hunt: Holy Smokes! A Market Crash In 2024 & A Depression By 2025?
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The last time Simon Hunt was on this channel, he predicted a rocky road ahead for the global economy, that will eventually culminate in the massive pi...
Ted Oakley: "Worst Part" For Stocks Lies Ahead In 1st Half Of 2024
26 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Here at the end of 2023, confidence in the economy and the financial markets is a lot higher than it was at this time a year ago. Is that confidence ...
Short-Term Pullback Ahead: Stocks & Bonds Are Overbought | Lance Roberts & Adam Taggart
25 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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Recession To Send Interest Rates Even Higher In 2024? | Jesse Felder
23 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When the game changes, the old rules don't apply and to succeed, you need to adopt a new playbook. Well, there's a good argument to be made t...
Debate On The US Dollar: Will It Soar Or Sink From Here? | Brent Johnson vs Matthew Piepenburg
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this video, we're witness to a "meeting of the minds" between two top monetary experts, who each will argue their predicted path for ...
2024 "Going To Be A Lot Worse" For Markets As Tech Stocks Implode | Fred Hickey
19 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Heading into 2024, we may be witnessing a change in a number of trends. The October CPI numbers suggest inflation is moderating faster than expected....
How Much Juice Does The Rally In Stocks Have Left? | Lance Roberts & Adam Tagart
18 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Yes, the Saturday weekly market reviews between Adam Taggart & Lance Roberts are back! In today's video, Lance shares his expectation that th...
David Rosenberg: The Market Is NOT Ready For What's Coming
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The world has watched intently as the world's most influential central bank, the Federal Reserve, has implemented the most aggressive interest rat...
Marc Faber: Prepare For A Global Breakdown Of Order (Part 2)
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Macro & markets expert Dr Marc Faber returns for Part 2 of this interview to explain his concerns why he sees democracy increasingly under threat ...
Marc Faber: Prepare For "Disappointing" Market Returns From Here (Part 1)
12 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Macro & markets expert Dr Marc Faber predicts that the "heavenly" returns the financial markets have delivered over the past 20+ years a...
Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Sees Era Of "Permacrisis" Ahead | Michael Spence (w/ Adam Taggart)
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Spence, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, sits down with Thoughtful Money host Adam Taggart to discuss the findings ...