Money, Markets & New Age Investing
Hello, my name is Greg Weldon, and I am the host of Money, Markets & New Age Investing, a Podcast that I have created to help people better understand what makes the global capital markets "tick", to help level the so-called playing field. I will teach you the things you'll NEED to know to best capitalize on your investments. I will show you specific trading strategies, and how to be protect your downside, because having a risk management overlay is paramount to success. But that’s just the beginning. We live in historic times, with big picture changes happening all around us . Financially speaking, this is all about a 50-year credit cycle of printing money, debasing the value of your paper wealth every single day …trillions of new dollars, yen, euros, pesos, new paper IOUs FLOODING the market. Then a pandemic accelerated a FORTY YEAR TREND REVERSAL, and BAM, inflation is thrown into the mix !!! More money chasing less goods”, it is everywhere, in everything, and everyone feels it. Add one final and critical secular trend that is intensifying … POLARIZATION …we’ve seen in it income for decades, but now it is in everything … weather, politics, human behavior, and markets. What do we have?? A new age of heightened volatility, one that will be with us for the foreseeable future. Thus, it is never more important to care for your ASSETS. With four decades of experience and a New Age vision for the future, I can help you learn how to better navigate these ever more volatile markets!!!! Join me for Money, Markets & New Age Investing!!!
Episodes
30 episodes
S3 E1: The New D.E.I.
In Episode One of Season Three of Money, Markets & New Age Investing Greg Weldon defines the new "D.E.I." for the next four years in the US under Donald Trump.The new D.E.I. is......DEBT...EASY-MONEY...INFLAT...
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28:56
S2 E12: Vladimir is Bullish on Silver & Bitcoin
Vladimir Lenin once said... "The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation."While there is controversy as to whether it was in fact Lenin who said that, or the legendary ...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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34:25
S2 E11: The US Dollar - Exposed as "The Emperor Has No Clothes"
The "Twin Towers" are gone, but never forgotten. Greg worked in Four WTC for several years, and in the adjacent World Financial Center as well, so it is with all humility and respect that he discusses the macro-economic version of the "Twin Tow...
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31:19
S2 E10: I Won't Say I Told You So...
It's Season Two, Episode Ten and Greg reviews the dramatic shift in the monetary policy narrative from the Federal Reserve this past week, away from "fighting inflation" to "protecting the economy", following yet another in a string of EXCEPTIO...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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29:28
S2 E9: Trading Lessons From the Original Market Wizards
In Episode 9, Greg introduces his new Three Podcast Special Series, "interviews" with a handful of the greatest money managers/traders of all-time, thanks to his colleague of many years, the legendary Jack Schwager, author of the must-read and ...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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33:06
S2 E8: There is NO Debating the Current Health of the Economy!
There was a mind-numbing Presidential debate this week on national TV, but there is NO "debating" the facts:Fact -- the US consumer is cocooning, cutting back discretionary spending amid a depletion of savings, maxed-out credit cards, a...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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30:46
S2 E7: Powell Taps Out
First, don't miss the offer of a FREE Chart Book that accompanies this Episode, with dozens of cool charts on Consumer Credit, Delinquencies, Household Finances, Inflation, Retail Sales, and, ALL the markets we are currently involved with, Fina...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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24:04
S2 E6: US Stocks - Exit Stage Left?
The S+P 500 has risen by +50.8% since the October 2022 low. The XLK S+P Information-Technology ETF has risen by +88.0% since the October 2022 low. And since just last October the NASDAQ-100 Index has risen by +31.2% .The las...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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22:35
S2 E5: Central Bank MoneyFest 2024
Twenty-two global Central Banks held meetings this past week to decide what, if any, changes they would make to their monetary policy stance. More than one-third of those Central Banks (8) voted to CUT their official short-term Policy Rate, TWI...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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34:05
S2 E4: Captain Crunch...Are We Headed for Global Credit Crunch?
You have heard me warning about a coming crisis in US Commercial Real-Estate and how it would link to Small Banks, not only here in the US, but around the world. Moreover, I warned in December about Small Bank Balance Sheets, and cited that as ...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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30:50
S2 E3: A Global-Macro Economic Trilogy
In Episode #3 of Season Two Greg offers an in depth look at three countries which reflect the three primary and dominant macro-economic "backdrops" - Stagflation, Inflation and Deflation. Each of these locations offer crystal clear evid...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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30:17
S2 E2: What Does the FOMC Know, That the Markets Don't?
What Does the FOMC Know, That the Markets Don't? Alternative Title: "Jerome Powell goes Mandelbaum on the Market!" Indeed, Jerome Powell and the FOMC stunned markets last week as the US Central Bank did NOT verbally "p...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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28:22
S2 E1: Is US Real Estate Ready to Rock and Roll Again in 2024?
What began as the smallest of dovish comments among a broad range of hawkish “Fedspeak” from Chairman Powell in his post-FOMC press conference earlier this month, became a rallying cry for many market participants wanting to celebrate their bel...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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33:26
Episode 16: Jerome Powell, Federal Reserve Chairman...or...Con Man?
I asked rhetorically in a research piece I wrote last week...is Jerome Powell a "con man"? Of course the answer is a resounding NO. Jay Powell has talked the talk and then walked the walk. He has told us what he thinks, he has told...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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33:34
Episode 15: The Perfect Geopolitical Storm
Just as inflation has retreated and it at least appears that a soft landing is not such a far-fetched thought as we once might have believed, BAM, the "perfect storm" is unleashed on the markets in the Middle East, in what could become a worst-...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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30:23
Episode 14: One Thing Leads to Another
Irresponsible money printing and out-of-control deficit spending, exacerbated by (ongoing) supply-demand fundamentals that are increasingly skewed towards supply side issues (AKA shortages relative to demand) leads to inflation (AKA more money ...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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35:05
Episode 13: Just the Facts Ma'am, Just the Facts!
In this business one must put ego aside and be willing to be wrong, a lot. Success comes down to unearthing the facts, digging deep into the data-details, connecting the dots globally, and putting ALL the little pieces together to build a pictu...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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30:39
Episode 12: Jerome "The Undertaker" Powell in a Steel Cage Death Match
Is it Mark William Calaway? … or Jerome Powell? … will the REAL "Undertaker" please stand up!Indeed, the modern-day version of legendary WWF superstar and World Champion "The Undertaker" is none other than the current Chair of the US Fe...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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30:59
Episode 11: The US Consumer Goes to War, Investors Need to Prepare!
The average Consumer in the US has been forced to borrow money just to pay the monthly bills, and while Consumers have exhaled a sigh-of-relief as inflation spiraled back "down" to 3%...little do they realize the WAR is not over. No, the war ha...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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27:36
Episode 10: Are You Guys Playing Cards?
The infamous "line" from the Hollywood classic "Animal House", when freshman Delta pledge "Flounder" walks into a smokey room with frat brothers sitting around several poker tables and cluelessly asks … "Are you guys playing cards?"
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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31:26
Episode 9: El Nino...Godzilla Rising from the Pacific
In Episode #9, before Greg gets to the intensifying and already vicious El Nino that has become dominant in the Pacific Ocean...he discusses the Fed and monetary policy, the disinflation in the year over year rate of change in CPI inflation to ...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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25:51
Episode 8: Jerome Powell, Economic Executioner?
While all focus is on the “Debt Ceiling” buffoonery...the Retail Sales report revealed DEEP and DEEPENING contraction in Sales within nearly EVERY type of Discretionary sector-industry…particularly the heretofore resilient Building Material and...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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28:39
Episode 7: The Charmin Soft Economy
Ahead of the May 3rd meeting of the US Federal Reserve Bank's FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) the debate is raging ... will and should the Fed hike their official short-term interest (policy) rate again, or not. The year-...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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37:20
Episode 6: US Fed Pours Ether on the Fire
Over the last fifty-two weeks Bitcoin has outperformed the US Stock market (S+P 500 Index) by +42.9%, while Ethereum has outperformed the S+P 500 by +27.2%, and Gold has outperformed by +17.0% despite a +4% appreciation in the US Dollar Index o...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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36:12
Episode 5: Back to the Future?...or...1978-79 All Over Again?
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell has summoned the ghost of Paul Volcker, circa 1978, with a monetary regime that is hell-bent on generating PAIN, economic pain, as a means to "defeating" inflation. Powell has pledged to use the Volcker "playbook", dr...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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30:49