Wouldn’t you like to ask the CFO of an $18 billion company what he personally invests his own money in?  Well I did, and I’m going to share what he said with you later, but for now remember, there are those, and always will be those, who love to buy gold, silver and other hard …

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Everyone talks about retiring someday, dreaming about how it’s going to be.  No alarm clock, no schedule, no boss, no worries and not a care in the world.  To some this means golfing daily. For others it might include traveling, more time with grandchildren, volunteering, or taking on some new and distinctive responsibilities.  Yet there …

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Being sized up is uncomfortable.  And it happens all the time. That is because we humans tend to size up everyone and everything based on our past experiences.  Obviously this has proven to have some value or the human race would have discarded and replaced it with some other more reliable immediate evaluation process centuries …

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Imagine a world with no standards or values. What a hassle it would be to know how much gasoline you were putting into your car, let alone how much you were going to have to pay for it.  You’d never know what the cost of groceries would be or how much the utility company was …

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Wealth is a lot like sex, delaying gratification can pay off big time.  And though this statement might sound trite and old fashioned there are millions and millions of case studies that prove its validity. In a recent study in the The Wall Street Journal, researchers compared the willingness of Americans to delay financial gratification …

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We’ve all heard this adage before. Still we’ve all been guilty of discarding what we have to pursue what we want only to be disappointed with the end results.   And yet, if we don’t reach out to pursue and attain the new and different in life we cut ourselves off from the opportunities that could …

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What an honor to present at Freedom Fest 2016 along with other greats like Steve Forbes, Judge Andrew Napolitano, George Foreman and Wayne Allen Root! As with all political gatherings, there were a lot of opinions being tossed about and it was intriguing to listen to what others were saying about who should be the …

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Today while browsing the news online “The Math of Raising a Big Family” popped up on my screen.  Having a large family of 8 children myself I thought, “Maybe there is something here that I haven’t considered.” So, I clicked on the link and discovered this was another Dave Ramsey advertorial.  And pathetically, Dave’s advice …

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Life insurance does get more expensive the older you get. But just because you are a grown up doesn’t mean you can no longer benefit from owning participating whole life insurance. Unlike all other types of life insurance participating whole life insurance is the only product that provides you with a guarantee that your premiums …

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Benjamin Franklin said it best.  “Death and Taxes.” The two things you can count on in life.  And I don’t know of anybody getting out of this world without confronting both of them. Still, it is fairly common for people to attempt to pay their life insurance premiums with dollars that they haven’t paid taxes …

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