My business partner and coauthor Carlos Lara and I have been warning since the financial crisis of 2008 that the Federal Reserve’s response has merely set us up for another crash. In September 2016 we released a video entitled, “How to Weather the Coming Financial Storms” which outlined our prognosis, and gave strategies for business owners and households to protect themselves. (You can still view the video from our main landing page at: http://laramurphy.
The answer is in an Infinite Banking policy. Nevertheless, most Americans put the amount they intend to save at risk by placing them in qualified plans, which are nothing more than investment vehicles controlled, not by you, but by the government, Wall Street and your employer. We would like to compare an IBC policy to qualified plans on four key elements.
TRUMP’S PLAYBOOK FOR THE ECONOMY: Trump’s Executive Order 13772 on “Core Principles for Regulating the United States Financial System.” was written to provide the President’s rationale for
wanting to overhaul the U.S. tax code and scale back the excessive government regulations found in the Dodd-Frank Act. Now, one year later after the report came out, and seeing several of the major suggested changes written about in the report actually take place, I am now convinced that this official essay is actually Trump’s “playbook” for the economy. So far he has been executing it just
as it is written.
A common method of showing the public the power of Nelson Nash’s
Infinite Banking Concept” (IBC) is to stress its feature of “constant
compounding.” In contrast to many other asset classes, dividend-paying
Whole Life insurance always increases in value. Indeed, some proponents of
IBC enthusiastically declare: “There’s nothing else like it!”
Not only does private lending help diversify a stock-heavy portfolio, but through private lending, it is also very easy to diversify amongst different types of assets, or real estate investments, in different locations.
The World Population Clock1 is currently registering 7.6 billion people on the planet. Among those 7.6 billion people, Forbes2 has identified only 2,208 individuals who are billionaires from 72 different countries. Based on this information our chances of ever becoming a billionaire are pretty slim — somewhere around 0.00002%.
Believe it or not, there is growing interest—even among market friendly economists—for the government to mail checks to every American. Guess it’s time to explain why this is a really bad idea.
Have you taken a “30,000-foot view” of your finances lately? Is it positioned for the growth, strength, stability and cash flow you desire? To help you answer that, let’s examine asset allocation and diversification.
The Hope of Victory: By Bob Murphy
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. (Romans 15:13, NIV)
FRACTIONAL RESERVE BANKING CAUSES THE BUSINESS CYCLE: by Robert P. Murphy
On April 16, I debated the Cato Institute’s George Selgin on the resolution, “Fractional Reserve Banking poses a threat to the stability of market economies.” I was arguing for the resolution, while George was against. This is an area where even self described Austro-libertarian economists are hotly divided, and moreover fractional reserve banking plays a key role in the book I co-authored with Carlos Lara (How Privatized Banking Really Works). For these reasons, it’s worth summarizing my case in the present article.
