2025-12-21  Economic Forecast: Dollar Devaluation, Rising Rates, and the Reality Behind Inflation

2025-12-21 Economic Forecast: Dollar Devaluation, Rising Rates, and the Reality Behind Inflation

Author: Dennis Tubbergen December 20, 2025 Duration: 24:41
As 2025 comes to a close, host Dennis Tubbergen delivers a clear-eyed and provocative economic forecast for 2026. In this episode of RLA Radio, Dennis explains why ongoing U.S. dollar devaluation is inevitable, how massive government debt refinancing will pressure the Federal Reserve to resume easy-money policies, and why interest rates may continue rising despite Fed rate cuts. He explores the growing divide between two U.S. economies, challenges official inflation metrics using real-world cost comparisons, and outlines why inflation in nominal terms may mask deflation in real terms when assets are priced in gold. Dennis also warns of an increasingly stagflationary environment ahead and shares what investors should consider as the economy moves into a critical turning point in 2026. Dennis Tubbergen has been working in the financial services industry for over thirty years. He is the CEO of PLP Advisors, a registered investment advisory company, and the host of Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio. Dennis has authored numerous books for financial advisors and consumers, five of which have been #1 best-sellers on Amazon. You can get a free copy of this month’s Special Report titled “2026 Investing and Economic Outlook” at www.RequestYourReport.com. For more information about Retirement Lifestyle Advocates and more free resources, please visit www.RetirementLifestyleAdvocates.com.

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Author: Language: English Episodes: 100

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2021-04-18 Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio w/ Dennis Tubbergen [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 43:46
Imagine that you are financing the purchase of a home. You get to the closing table, and upon review of the loan documents, you notice that the interest rate and the amount that you're required to pay back to the lender…
2021-04-11 Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio w/ David Skarica [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 43:51
The stock market is more overvalued than it’s ever been by every historical measure. “I wouldn't be surprised if we see a 1987 or '29 type shock at some point”…followed by inflation similar or greater than we saw in the…
2021-04-04 Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio w/ Karl Denninger [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 43:54
Are we looking at a deflationary collapse in the next 12 months? Our guest this week, Mr. Karl Denninger says he would not be surprised by a 50% re-pricing in all asset classes. Join your host, Dennis Tubbergen as he and…
2021-03-28 Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio w/ Murray Gunn [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 44:08
It's amazing to think that the Japanese stock market topped out 31 years ago and the European market topped 21 years ago, and the Chinese market topped to 14 years ago. As positive social mood is waning here in the U.S.,…
2021-03-21 Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio w/ Brien Lundin [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 44:22
The dollar will eventually be completely discredited and lose credibility. The thing that's helping it right now is the fact nearly all world currencies are going through the same process. Eventually, currencies are goin…
2021-03-07 Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio w/ Dr. Charles Nenner [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 44:15
Our guest this week on Retirement Lifestyle Advocates radio is the leading cycles research analyst, Dr. Charles Nenner. A past guest on the program, Dr. Nenner explained how he mathematically predicts the annual, monthly…
2021-02-28 Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio w/ Karl Denninger [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 43:58
If we have a hyperinflationary event, there's going to be a civil war. If you take the current $2.3 trillion operating deficit, add $1.9 trillion to that, we're at $4.2 trillion. Should another $3 trillion stimulus packa…
2021-02-21 Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio w/ Michael Pento [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 44:15
“You don't have to look any further than the Federal Reserve, the disgusting institution that used to be in the business of bailing out banks on the margins if they had some bad debt they had to bring to the discount win…
2021-02-14 Retirement Lifestyle Advocates Radio w/ Alasdair MacLeod [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 43:54
We have two global problems. The potential bankruptcy, in fact, almost certain bankruptcy of the Eurozone and the ending of the Euro. And at the same time, in America with dollars being printed to create a wealth effect,…