The Real Investment Show Podcast

Clarity Financial Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts and Director of Financial Planning review the opportunities that can save you money during Open Enrollment Season.

Clarity Financial Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts reviews the history of past market cycles and observes, as history is about to repeat itself, investors who ignore the signs will pay the price.

(Yeah...you can't.) Clarity Financial Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts w Richard Rosso, Director of Financial Planning, and Danny Ratliff, CFP, discuss the ups and downs of the markets and the risk vs reward scenario.

Clarity Financial Chief Financial Strategist Lance Roberts reviews the history of stock valuations, the CAPE, and how what happened in the early '90's is relevant to investors of the twenty-teens.

Clarity Financial Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts reviews grim statistics about the majority of soon-to-be retiring American's who will not have enough to live on.

Clarity Financial Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts reviews Thursday's (9/20) market numbers, and previews statistics showing despite record market performance, more American's are less prepared for retirement than ever before.

Clarity Financial Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts shows why the danger of asset bubbles in every investment class is part of a recipe for reversal as the bond yield curves begin to invert...and what that means for your money.

Clarity Financial Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts uses market history to demonstrate that the Bond Market is telling us things may not be as rosy as they seem.

Clarity Financial Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts reviews the poor savings rate in the US, and offers simple, straightforward ideas for making realistic savings goals.

Clarity Financial Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts reviews disturbing, divergent pictures in foreign markets that do not mirror what's occurring in the US. How long before that changes?

Clarity Financial Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts runs through the numbers that are stacked against many who would be savers, and why saving is no fun.

Clarity Financial Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts relates the latest, nutty marketing scheme, and reviews the ingredients for an explosive market.

Clarity Financial Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts reviews the numbers revealing that being a millionaire doesn't quite have the same cache as it did 30-years ago.

Clarity Financial Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts examines stock valuations vs investor sentiment and agrees with Prof. Robert Shiller that investors have become complacent to risk with higher valuations.

Clarity Financial Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts explains the fallacy of expecting tax cuts to help the economy when the government refuses to cut spending; as the deficit expands, risk to stock markets increase.

Clarity Financial Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts answers view mail on market trends--Bullish vs Bearish, and whether the Fed has enough tools to offset the next credit crisis.

Clarity Financial Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts reviews the financial history of previous financial crashes.

Clarity Financial Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts w John Coumarianos, Financial Analyst discuss why the job of investors is manage money and risk...and the problem of jumping from one strategy to the next to the next.

Clarity Financial Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts with John Coumarianos, on managing risk towards retirement goals, and why many baby boomers are unable to retire.

Clarity Financial Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts reviews the signals we should heed, and three main issues of which to be aware as 2018 draws to a close, and 2019 draws near.

Clarity Financial Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts w Dir. Financial Planning Richard Rosso on the psychology of investing and debt, with heavy reference to Jason Zweig's The Human Brain and the Money Drain

Clarity Financial Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts w Dir. Financial Planning Richard Rosso on Houston Hurricanes, Hurricane Florence, Ray Dalio's Debt Cycles, and Hyman Minsky's Minsky Moment in the economy.

Clarity Financial Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts with Richard Rosso, Dir. Financial Planning on debt and Dave Ramsey, Donald Trump's erroneous tweets on employment numbers, and economic bumps from natural disasters.

Clarity Financial Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts reviews Monday's (9/10) market action, whether we'll hit 3000, and the mentality of debt.

Clarity Financial Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts w Richard Rosso, Director of Financial Planning, and Financial Analyst, John Coumarianos, compare parameters of the economy in the late nineties with today's trends.

Clarity Financial Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts, w Richard Rosso, Director of Financial Planning, and Financial Analyst John Coumarianos discuss value stocks, value traps, and the consequence of dopamine for investors.

Clarity Financial Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts, w Richard Rosso, Director of Financial Planning, and Financial Analyst John Coumarianos review the epic story that is Elon Musk doing doobies on the Joe Rogan show, and why stocks don't split anymore.

Clarity Financial Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts reviews today's (9/7) market action, as well as the holiday-shortened trading week.

Clarity Financial Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts and Richard Rosso, Director of Financial Planning, review bone headed marketing ideas from Nike and Starbucks, and call out ADP for their questionable employment number calculus.

Clarity Financial Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts with Richard Rosso, Director of Financial Planning, discussing bone headed marketing, knuckle-headed financial advisors, and the real way that money works over time.

Clarity Financial Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts with Richard Rosso, DIrector of Financial Planning, discuss Keurig-hot tea, what Brent really does, and the concept of investing discipline.

Clarity Financial Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts w Director of Financial Planning Richard Rosso and Danny Ratliff, CFP, with closing thoughts on Wednesday's (9/5) market action

Clarity Financial Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts with Richard Rosso, Director of Financial Planning, and Danny Ratliff, CFP with reaction to today's Capitol Hill hearings on Social Media: "What do you have the right to say on Social Media, and what do you NOT have the right to say--and is it all fair?"

Clarity Financial Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts, with Director of Financial Planning, Richard Rosso, and Danny Ratliff, CFP, discuss the myths and fallacies behind Social Security, what it was intended to provide, and how it has been bastardized over the years.

Clarity Financial Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts reviews Wednesday's market action, and compares the markets to a big, giant video game, feeding investors' dopamine cravings.

Clarity Financial Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts is joined by Director of Financial Planning, Richard Rosso, and Danny Ratliff, CFP to discuss the days market action, myths about social security, the farce of social media hearings on Capitol Hill while Equifax leaks the really vital personal information, and how the Fourth Quarter may be shaping up.

Lance Roberts' internet debut is capped with a detailing of how 401-k's transformed a commissioned sales job was turned into an annuity for stock brokers...and why there's no such thing as a "free ETF" as offered by some financial entities lately. And we birth the RIA Index.

Lance Roberts debuts his new internet-only show with stories about branding effectiveness, getting our money's worth from the FBI, and what the S&P 500 is really telling us about the economy.

Clarity Financial Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts reviews the first trading day of September and explains why the past two quarters' earnings reports really ought to have asterisks applied to their numbers.

US Rep Ted Poe updates Lance Roberts on his audit of foreign aid, now reaching 22 countries from diverse funding sources within the US Government

City Councilman-at-Large Mike Knox explains the nuances between the county flood bonds and the city's answer to flooding, and to which he'd more readily entrust money to do the job.

Lance expounds on what a truly beneficial immigration policy for the US would look like.

Lance Roberts discusses the various ways to cheat in a marriage, not all of them having to do with sex.

Lance Roberts and US Rep Ted Poe discuss the recently concluded first summit meeting between US President Ted Poe and DPRNK Kim Jong Un

Lance quizzes US Rep Ted Poe on which western burger chain should be placed in Pyongyang, North Korea as part of ongoing talks with Lil' Kim.

Lance reviews the legal travails of Donald Trump, Jeff Sessions and Robert Mueller.

Lance discusses the truth behind the Iran Nuclear deal that was not authorized by Congress in the first place.

Lance examines lessons from the life of Sam Houston with historian Denton Florian

Lance reviews the history of Texas war for independence with historian Denton Florian

Lance reviews the latest news from the Korea's with US Rep Ted Poe