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.
A Business Credit survey1 conducted and published in March 2016 by
the Federal Reserve Banks of New York, Atlanta, Boston, Cleveland,
Philadelphia, Richmond, and St. Louis reports that “cash flow” is
the number one problem facing small businesses with fewer than
500 employees.
NOISE: a loud or unpleasant sound;
Thoughts from R. Nelson Nash regarding the Infinite Banking Concept.
One of the greatest awakenings we can experience happens when we
recognize that our monetary systems rest entirely on our confidence.
Also relevant to this article is this perspective. According to the Tax Policy Center roughly 80 percent (of revenue for the federal government) comes from the individual income tax and the payroll taxes that fund the social insurance programs.
—Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature & Causes
of the Wealth of Nations. Volume I, 17591
Within this quote by Adam Smith resides the
fundamental premise for the creation of the IBC
Practitioner Program for financial professionals.
“There are probably thousands of such
examples of misclassification that we run into every day but they
probably don’t increase the quality of our lives. Instead, they limit
our thinking and lead us to wrong conclusions. Words are powerful
things!”
Becoming Your Own Banker, by author R. Nelson Nash is an
extraordinary book. And yet, it’s not actually a book as much as it
is a book-let. A mere one hundred and seven pages in its entirety, it
dispenses wisdom and logic of a kind that only an individual who has
been educated in the Austrian School tradition could have written.
Neither the brevity of its treatment nor its plain language takes away
from the fact that it contains information of great intellectual and financial depth.
Bankruptcy? There is an Alternative. A NewRole For Privatized Banking – Part Two By: L. Carlos Lara
