Michael Pento joins us to discuss the causes of the ongoing financial crisis, the inevitable bursting of multiple debt and asset bubbles, how a wise investor can protect themselves, and the fact that war remains a possibility at the end of economic cycles that run concurrent with the decline of great empires.
Michael Pento is a specialist in Austrian economics and is the President of Pento Portfolio Strategies. Prior to starting Pento Portfolio Strategies he served as a senior economist and VP of the managed products division of another well known financial firm. Michael has also created ETFs and UITs that were sold throughout Wall Street. Earlier in his career, he worked on the floor of the NYSE. He is the author of The Coming Bond Market Collapse: How to Survive the Demise of the U.S. Debt Market.