Financial Sense Newshour Big Picture Archive

In this week’s edition of the Lifetime Income Series, Jim concludes his case study on Carl and Tish Springer, and shows how they were able to successfully deal with a sudden early retirement for which they had not planned.

Jim welcomes back JKC de Courcy, Chief Executive of Courcy’s Intelligence Service in London, and publisher of Courcy’s Intelligence Brief. Mr. de Courcy sees more evidence of an Israeli strike on Iran ahead, and likely without any assistance from the United States. He also sees the continuing turmoil in the Middle East leading to more dictators getting overthrown, and the potential break-up of a number of Middle East countries. Mr. de Courcy notes that Islam is at war with the West, and with itself. Turning to Asia, he sees Japan moving to closer ties with Russia and beginning to move away from its military posture of pacifism, all in response to a growing threat from China, which just launched its first aircraft carrier.

Jim welcomes technician Tracy Knudsen CMT, Senior Analyst at Lowry Research Corporation, back to the program. Tracy is still somewhat cautious with regard to higher stock prices in the near term. Her indicators have not yet turned fully bullish, so her outlook for stocks at this level is still one of caution. Also in this segment, Ryan Puplava looks back at this eventful week, particularly the Federal Reserve announcement of more QE in his Market Wrap-up report. Rob Bernard reports on this week in the fixed income markets. Last, but certainly not least, Jim answers your Q-Calls in this segment of the program.