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Blog 72 – How Much And For How Long You Should Contribute To Your IBC Policy.

The question always arises as to what is considered a reasonable contribution. We use the following rule-of-thumb: if you are younger than 21 years old, reasonable contribution should be a minimum of $300 per month (or $3,600 per year); if you are between 21 and 30 years old, it should be the larger of $500 per month (or $6,000 per year) or 10% of your gross annual family income; if you are between 31 and 40 years old, it should be the larger of $1,000 per month (or $12,000 per year) or 10% to 15% of your gross annual family income; if you are between 41 and 50 years old, it should be the larger of $1,500 per month (or $18,000 per year) or 15% to 20% of your gross annual family income; if you are between 51 and 60 years old, it should be the larger of $2,000 per month (or $24,000 per year) or 20% of your gross annual family income; if you are older than 60 years old, it should be either $2,500 per month (or $30,000 per year) or a lump sum larger than $200,000.

Blog 71 – Don’t Delay Implementing IBC

We have been Financial Professionals for 26 years, and during the last 12 years, we have dedicated exclusively to the design of high cash value dividend-paying whole life insurance policies.

Blog 70 – Key Questions About The Infinite Banking Concept

1)What is the Infinite Banking Concept?
The Infinite Banking Concept (IBC) is an exceptional cash management tool for your personal economy or for your business that gives you financial independence by recapturing interest payments that otherwise would flow to outsiders.

2020 August BankNotes

IBC and Whole Life: Process versus Platform: By Robert P. Murphy

At this year’s Think Tank, I noticed that the various speakers seemed to fall
into two camps. In the first camp, the practitioners stressed their understanding
of the “banking” aspect of Nelson’s ideas. People in this camp explained how
they helped their clients redirect cash flows to allow their clients to “become
their own bankers.” Not surprisingly, people in this camp relied very heavily
on Nelson’s best-selling book, Becoming Your Own Banker, since their
approach with clients followed very closely the approach Nelson uses in his
book to address the reader. Typically the people in this camp would reject
the conventional framework and terminology of the professional financial
industry, saying that only by changing one’s mindset and thought process
could one escape from the bondage of the bankers.
On the other hand, there was a different camp of speakers at the Think Tank. In
their presentations, they explained how they showed their clients that dividendpaying
Whole Life insurance was a perfectly respectable asset class, which
had its own pros and cons. They then explained quite convincingly that in our
current economic and political environment, it made a lot of sense for many
clients to shift their portfolio more heavily in favor of this conservative asset,
because it was superior to the more popular selections (stocks, bonds, real
estate, etc.) on many dimensions. The practitioners in this camp did not shy
from taking on the Dave Ramseys and Suze Ormans of the world on their own
terms. You want to talk about rates of return? Sure thing, let’s just make sure
we’re analyzing the assets correctly, including tax considerations and liquidity.
The more we study it with an open mind, the more amazing it is that somehow
Whole Life insurance has gotten a reputation as an awful financialproduct.

2020 June Lara-Murphy Report

One of the ironies in our current situation is that Carlos and I have been warning our subscribers for years that the various rounds of quantitative easing (QE) had blown up a giant asset bubble that would eventually burst, and that the fallout would be even worse than what happened in the fall of 2008. Well, that did happen, but there was the whole global pandemic thrown into the mix. Consequently, it’s hard to know how Austrian business cycle theory interacts with the coronavirus itself and the associated lockdowns.

Blog 67 – The Capitalization Phase Of An IBC Policy

Prospective clients need to realize that the cumulative break-even may take a few years due to the initial cost of setting up the death benefit of the policy and the compensation to the financial professional who designs, sells and will service the policy for years to come. That is what Nelson Nash calls the capitalization phase of the policy.

2020 January BankNotes

As in the grocery business that we discussed earlier, you must first study the banking business so that you have a firm grip on what it is all about and feel that you can run such a business. Without this confidence you are fighting a losing battle. This, too, is a very competitive business.

2019 December BankNotes

The newfound openness of large numbers of Americans to socialism is, by now, a well documented phenomenon. According to a Gallup poll from earlier this year, 43% of Americans now believe that some form of socialism would be a good thing, in contrast to 51% who are still against it. A Harris poll found that four in ten Americans prefer socialism to capitalism. The trend is particular apparent in the young: another Gallup poll showed that as recently as 2010, 68% of people between 18 and 29 approved of capitalism, with only 51% approving of socialism, whereas in 2018, while the percentage among this age group favoring socialism was unchanged at 51%, those in favor of capitalism had dropped precipitously to 45%

Blog 60 – Use Infinite Banking To Create Sustainable Wealth

The Infinite Banking Concept is a process in which you accumulate cash value in a properly-designed whole life insurance policy. This cash value is used as an emergency/opportunity fund.
At any time, your cash values are doing double duty: they allow you to leverage them into other assets and at the same time they continue to earn interest and dividends for you.

2019 August & September Lara-Murphy Report

CLIMATE HYSTERIA: FACT VS. FICTION BY Robert P. Murphy
Despite their claims of just reporting on the science, the radical environmentalists don’t have the facts on their side. One of the big stories this month was “Climate Week” (September 24-30), and in particular the passionate testimony of sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg before the UN, in which she famously exclaimed, “How dare you!” to the adults who were allegedly ruining her future. Another related item was the tragic death in late August of economist Martin Weitzman, which shone a spotlight on his technical work showing the limitations of conventional models in handling catastrophic risk scenarios.