2025-06-08 The Hidden Cost of Nixon's 1971 Decision: How Abandoning Gold Destroyed Fair Trade

2025-06-08 The Hidden Cost of Nixon's 1971 Decision: How Abandoning Gold Destroyed Fair Trade

Author: Dennis Tubbergen June 7, 2025 Duration: 43:30
The Hidden Cost of Nixon's 1971 Decision: How Abandoning Gold Destroyed Fair Trade and Made America the World's Chump This week on RLA radio your host Dennis Tubbergen talks with Jeffrey Tucker, founder of the Brownstone Institute, where reveals how President Nixon's 1971 decision to close the gold window fundamentally broke global trade and turned America into a permanent disadvantage against countries like China. In this eye-opening discussion, Tucker explains how the shift to fiat currency created "unfair competition" that has gutted American manufacturing for over 50 years, leading to our worst-ever trade deficits. He also dives into Trump's controversial tariff strategy, the pharmaceutical industry's price-gouging of American consumers (paying 5-10x more than other countries for the same drugs), and the revolutionary changes happening in public health under the MAHA movement. From removing COVID shots from childhood vaccine schedules to eliminating chemical dyes from food, Tucker argues we're witnessing the first real government progress he's seen in his entire adult career. Jeffrey A. Tucker is the Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and ten books in 5 languages, most recently publisher of Blindsight in 2020. He is also the editor of The Best of Mises. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. For more information about our guest, Mr. Jeffrey A. Tucker, please visit https://brownstone.org. For more information about Retirement Lifestyle Advocates, please visit https://retirementlifestyleadvocates.com.

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Author: Language: English Episodes: 100

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2023-12-10 Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio w/ Jeffrey Tucker [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 43:56
This week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio, your host, Dennis Tubbergen, speaks with Jeffrey Tucker about the state of the US economy and the health of liberty in the US. Tucker expresses concern about growing US…
2023-12-03 Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio w/ Karl Denninger [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 43:58
The yield curve has been inverted for over a year, which is unusual and suggests a recession is likely on the horizon. Our guest this week, Karl Denninger, discusses with your host, Dennis Tubbergen, the inverted yield c…
2023-11-12 Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio w/ Mark Jeftovic [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 43:33
Inflation went from “transient” to, “it's good for you” to, “we've got to do something before we have a revolution on our hands”. But (the Fed) they're kind of trapped now because they can't keep raising (interest rates)…
2023-11-05 Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio w/ Dr. Charles Nenner [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 43:04
This week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio, Dr. Charles Nenner, a specialized analyst who uses cycles to analyze markets, explains to your host, Dennis Tubbergen, how he applies his cycle analysis to forecast mark…
2023-10-29 Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio w/ Egon von Greyerz [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 43:36
We all know that central banks and governments don’t present accurate economic data. While they report inflation at roughly 4 percent, we all know from our own experience at the grocery, gas pump, and just about everywhe…
2023-10-22 Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio w/ Harry Dent [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 43:52
If there's a time in your life when you're going to be cautious in investments, and that's everything, stocks, normal corporate and high-yield bonds, everything but the Treasury bonds, which are the safest in the world,…
2023-10-15 Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio w/ Kerry Lutz [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 43:34
We have said for many years that the easy money policies of recent years end in inflation followed by deflation, or deflation. This week's guest on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio, Mr. Kerry Lutz, echoed that idea i…
2023-10-08 Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio w/ Michael Pento [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 43:46
Two years ago, the 10-year US Treasury note was yielding .50 percent. Now it's 4.8 percent. That debt is rolling over, and the money that it costs to service that debt is skyrocketing. Soon, 35 percent of all tax revenue…