War
No matter what side or opinion you may take concerning the events in Ukraine and Russia in February 2022, the question remains: how does this affect me? When a new…
What’s Your Line?
Like many people these days I've been watching a lot of videos. In particular, I've been watching reruns of the original “What's My Line?” that aired in the early 1960s…
Tony Robbins Is Wrong Again, Darn It
Tony Robbins, the creator of the modern motivation industry, has authored a second book on money, called Unshakable. I won’t include the link here because I have not read it,…
Forgotten Financial Knowledge: Members-Only Video
In our first members-only exclusive video, we discuss how the average person in America understood a fundamental and critical concept of savings -- that most no longer understand. Our member section…
Independence Day, Every Day
Those of us who go on and on about the government and their central bankers printing trillions of dollars may not have been making our point strongly enough. The creation…
Good Banking Is Not Entertainment
The difference in the investments a mutual insurance company makes for us versus the rest of the securities world is that stocks are traded for speculative reasons, for increases in…
The importance of sharing what you know
No less than the esteemed Nelson Nash personally filled in a gap in my philosophical knowledge: The powerful influence of Leonard Read, co founder of FEE, the Foundation for Economic…
Truth is Truth, No Matter Who Says It
You may have noticed the change to the quote attributed to Thomas Jefferson on the homepage at at MyFreedomBank.com. The great Dr. Tom Woods recently informed me, via his podcast,…
Is Tax Deferral Really a Benefit?
Like most of us, we do not like paying taxes, wherever our philosophical grounding in that emotion comes from. When presented by our employer, accountant or financial advisor the promise…
What is Money?
Money, when we hold it in our hands, is not really there. Of course an ounce of gold is real, but the gold stands for an idea. Money—and that gold…