from Kerry Lutz's Financial Survival Network
Kerry interviewed Tom Wall about retirement planning, highlighting the psychological barriers retirees face in spending their savings due to fears of depleting their funds, which can diminish their retirement experience. Tom advocated for life insurance and annuities as tools to ensure a guaranteed income stream and mitigate financial risks, recommending mutual life insurance companies for their policyholder-centric approach and historical reliability. He discussed the role of permanent death benefits in his financial strategy, emphasizing their importance in providing for his spouse and leaving a legacy for his children, which allows for higher-risk investments without compromising family security. Both Kerry and Tom noted the long-standing reliability of these financial products, which offer bond-like returns with lower risk and volatility, and stressed the necessity of understanding their contractual nature to effectively manage investment risks.
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Today, the world’s economy no longer runs on oil, but data. Shortly after the advent of the microprocessor came the internet, unleashing an onslaught of data running on the coils of fiber optic cables beneath the oceans and satellites above the skies. While often posited as a liberator of humanity against the oppressors of nation-states that allows previously impossible interconnectivity and social organization between geographically separated cultures to circumnavigate the monopoly on violence of world governments, ironically, the internet itself was birthed out of the largest military empire of the modern world – the United States.
Producing quality goods that aren’t addictive or obsoleted in a few years–there’s no money in that, fool. Get real. You want to get rich, “invest” in a bet in the casino. 
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is ending searches of passengers at airports and other mass transit hubs after years of investigations by government watchdogs, civil liberties groups, and media outlets documenting how agents seized legal cash from innocent American travelers.
QUESTION: I made a bet that a friend was wrong that Roosevelt also confiscated silver. I never heard of that, only gold. He said I should write to you and you will decide who wins.
In my first interview of 2025 I spoke to Patrick Karim of North Star Bad Charts. We dove straight into the markets for 2025, focusing on gold, silver, and other key assets. Patrick is always insightful, and this time I asked him what he thinks is in the charts for the year ahead.
European countries are the largest welfare states in the OECD and among the highest in the World. At the same time, Europe’s economic dynamism has faded out and European leaders are getting increasingly worried about it. According to Christine Lagarde, the ECB President, Europe’s generous social model is at risk unless the region fixes a persistent decline in growth. In a recent report, Mario Draghi strongly calls for reforms and investments to reinforce productivity growth, while keeping untouched the continent’s oversized welfare state. For Austrian school economists, this sounds like having your cake and eating it too, because the issues of economic growth and income redistribution are intrinsically linked.
I appreciate Ayn Rand’s contributions to the capitalistic, individualistic ethos as much as the next borderline-misanthrope dissident disenchanted with modern society — especially in this age of techno-fascistic anarcho-tyranny.
The monetary metals pulled back sharply yesterday but have entered Tuesday on stable footing. Silver is trading at $29.90 –and gold is $2,674.
A populist proposal to auction off distressed federal government assets, such as loans, to pay for infrastructure and other policy priorities for working-class Americans is gaining renewed interest ahead of former President Donald Trump’s return to the White House next week.
I like Hunter Biden’s artwork. If I were furnishing my first apartment and needed some posters, I would totally drop $50 on a Hunter Biden poster. And even now, if I were on vacation at some seaside resort, saw one of his paintings at a local art gallery, and felt like dropping a couple of hundred bucks, I might buy one in a moment of vacation-induced frivolity. That last opportunity, though, may never come my way because almost 200 Hunter Biden artworks were burned in the Los Angeles fire.
The Washington Post cartoonist who was arrested on charges of possessing child pornography previously produced cartoons depicting conservatives as Nazis and sexual deviants for calling leftists ‘groomers’.
President-elect Donald Trump’s new presidential portrait features the former and soon-to-be-next president displaying a stern scowl, a striking departure from the smiling image captured during his first term.
Silver priced in Canadian dollar has hit an all-time high! Plus a look at gold.
Imposing mandatory digital identification on every nation on the entire planet has become a primary goal for the global elite. It isn’t going to happen tomorrow, but eventually the plan is to get virtually everyone in the world into the system. If the global elite get their way, a time will come when you will not be able to buy or sell anything on the Internet without logging in with your UN-mandated digital identity chip. You won’t be able to go to school, get a job or open a bank account without your UN-mandated digital identity chip either. In essence, you will become a complete and utter outcast from society.