Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St welcomed back returning guest, President of Financial Sense Advisors, Host of the popular long running show, Financial Sense Newshour https://www.financialsense.com/ and Certified Financial Planner (CFP), Jim Puplava for an interview. Jim's full bio: https://www.financialsense.com/contributors/james-j-puplava During this in depth 40+ minute interview, Jason asks Jim questions about: 1) As someone who has professionally managed money for decades, do you find that the performance of general stock market index funds and ETFs from passive investing are making it harder to manage money now? 2) A few weeks ago you did an entire segment on your excellent Financial Sense Newshour show ( https://www.financialsense.com/bond-market-precipice ) warning people about taking on too much risk in bonds funds to try to get more income. Is this a bubble in your opinion? What type of risk are these bond funds taking to offer retail investors a 5% or 6% guaranteed return? 3) Are you shocked that central banks have managed to create at least $21 trillion in liquidity and balance sheet expansion since 2008 and that there hasn't been another global financial crisis? 4) What do you think are the most important things in markets that investors should pay attention to for the rest of 2018? (Fed balance sheet reduction, interest rate hikes, US Dollar Index rally, oil prices, etc) 5) Are we at a high enough oil price to hurt the global economy or for a lot more oil supply to start coming online? 6) What's your views on this everything bubble? Is there any asset classes or stock sector that you think are not drastically overvalued right now and might be a good time to buy? Don't miss Jim's superb insights! He thinks that, based on his extensive research that Spanish banks are in even worse shape than Italan banks! (UH OH!) and that emerging markets are already starting to crack given this 2+ month US Dollar Index rally. Jim has been accumulating more positions in commodities including agriculture, oil and energy stocks and also junior gold mining stocks. Please visit the Wall St for Main St website here: http://www.wallstformainst.com/ Follow Jason Burack on Twitter @JasonEBurack Follow Wall St for Main St on Twitter @WallStforMainSt Commit to tipping us monthly for our hard work creating high level, thought proving content about investing and the economy https://www.patreon.com/wallstformainst Also, please take 5 minutes to leave us a good iTunes review here! We have 40 5 star iTunes reviews and we need to get to our goal of 100 5 star iTunes reviews asap! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/wall-street-for-main-street/id506204437 If you feel like donating fiat via Paypal, Bitcoin, Gold Money, or mailing us some physical gold or silver, Wall St for Main St accepts one time donations on our main website. Wall St for Main St is also available for personalized investor education and consulting! Please email us to learn more about it! If you want to reach us, please email us at: [email protected] **DISCLAIMER- ANYTHING MENTIONED DURING THIS AUDIO OR SHORT VIDEO RECORDING IS FOR INFORMATION & EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY AND DOES NOT CONSTITUTE INVESTMENT ADVICE. JASON BURACK AND HIS GUESTS ARE MERELY STATING THEIR OPINIONS ON DIFFERENT TOPICS RELATED TO INVESTING, THE ECONOMY, MARKETS OR COMPANIES. PLEASE TALK TO YOUR INVESTMENT ADVISOR AND DO ADDITIONAL RESEARCH AND DUE DILIGENCE ON YOUR OWN BEFORE INVESTING AND MAKING IMPORTANT INVESTMENT DECISIONS.- DISCLAIMER**