2025 April BankNotes
Conventional “Retirement Planning” is Code for Gambling. The core of ordinary financial planning is rotten and no one
wants to talk about it.
Conventional “Retirement Planning” is Code for Gambling. The core of ordinary financial planning is rotten and no one
wants to talk about it.
We are in a serious financial crisis. And, it is not only Americans who have been holding their breath throughout this ordeal. Many other countries of the world also fear total collapse because our economic affairs are so intertwined. As we watch the stock markets rollercoaster downward, we wonder if anything can possibly work at this point.
This week’s news about President Joe Biden’s preparations for leaving office before the holidays should be another glaring example of why we need to intensify our efforts into doing all that we can to motivate each other into taking personal action toward protecting ourselves and our families.
These economic theorists have at their
core of thinking the principles of scarcity and choice. More importantly, they believe that economic value is subjective to the individual. These concepts, when used in the thinking process, provide the ability to see the world and especially the market economy in a uniquely different way from all other schools of thought.
The average American citizen simply wants to be able to live a
peaceful life, be financially secure and debt free. Why then, do
so many of us fail to attain this noble goal and 98% suffer from
cash flow problems till the day we die? Is it ignorance? Is it poor
judgment? Is it our lack of time to properly research every aspect of
money decisions, or is something else occurring that we simply are
totally unaware of?
What lies behind all of this rampant corruption and impish display on
the part of so many financial elites. This is the question all concerned citizens are asking and many answers are pouring forth from the media to help us sort this out. But, at the end of the day, are we sure we really know who or what is at fault? Are we pointing our finger at the real source of the problem?
One of the most compelling ways financial professionals explain the IBC concept is to compare it to one’s own private bank as Nelson Nash has done in his national best selling book, Become Your Own Banker.
Former Dallas Federal Reserve President, Richard Fisher, publicly dressed down President Trump in a recent interview with CNBC in response to Trump’s remark that he’s “not thrilled” about the Fed’s interest rate hikes. Obviously, Trump’s comment upset Fisher quite a bit and he told CNBC that
by making that comment “Trump is out of line.
It was our largest Think Tank event to date with over 280 people in attendance. This was a milestone event in many ways aside from attendance. We recognized our council members with Nelson Nash Leadership Awards and presented certificates to 38 IBC Practitioner course graduates.
Nothing in recent years has convinced me more of this fact than attempting to explain the Infinite Banking Concept (IBC) to others. When I consider the number of years it took me to finally understand it, I wonder if its simplicity is not perhaps the real source of its difficulty.