During the last half of the 20th century and the first decade of the new century there have been hundreds - perhaps thousands - of the latest and greatest diet books, diet infomercials, diet clubs, diets that are delivered to your door, diets you can pick up at the store, even urban legends about cabbage [...]
Mystery…No. 2 You Know Best What’s Right for You
The Debt Paradigm preaches that you cannot fully comprehend your own personal economy. It implies that the professionals who subscribe to the Debt Paradigm are in some way wiser, more knowledgeable about your situation, better informed about your needs, and perhaps even cuter than you.
BUNK!
You do not [...]
The Seven Mysteries - aka Wealth Builders
Moving from Bad Habits to Good Practices
Prologue
The difference between a habit and a practice is awareness.
If a habit relies on thoughtless performance, a practice relies on thoughtful performance. The behavior can be the same, e.g., locking the doors at night. Awareness makes the difference.
Conventional wisdom means that [...]
Myth No. 4 - I Have A Retirement Plan From Work
Myth: my company has a pension/profit sharing/401k/other plan that promises me a secure future income.
Reality: Enron, MCI, US West/Qwest, Mutual Benefit Life, United Airlines, and many other well known and superficially reputable and stable companies have defaulted on retirement plans in the past and many [...]
The primary aim of this blog is to inform and educate Americans about ways to use the EUREKONOMICS™ model to create and manage personal economies that thrive in good times and bad.
Unfortunately, in 2009 the Federal Government and the US Congress pose the greatest threat to our collective financial security. Their greed for the accretion [...]
Where do mutual insurance companies keep their money? Bonds are a staple of mutual insurance company investments. Opponents of whole life insurance from mutual companies say returns on bonds simply don’t compete with the equity [aka stock] market.
BUNK - AGAIN!
Below is an amazing chart extracted from John Maulden’s Weekly Letter that should make every “buy [...]
It’s March 2009.
Americans are struggling with the cost of everything from mortgages to groceries. The struggle is the outcome of three decades of misinformation about how to handle the money that flows through the lives of American individuals and families.
Your personal economy succeeds when you control the money that comes into your life.
The Behmoths on Wall Street, Behemoth banks and insurance companies, [...]
Financial advisors that have studied the capabilities and performance of the insurance and investment companies they represent have known for a long time that developing the foundation for a successful personal economy demands the use of the most powerful, flexible, versatile and secure financial tool in the advisors tool belt…participating whole life insurance from a [...]