In my last blog post, I went over the worth of a guarantee. This is a continuation of that post, which you can read here. Why can cash value be guaranteed using whole life insurance? Because of the following guarantees: A guaranteed mortality rate. This means that your cost of insurance inside the policy is […]
Not many things are truly “guaranteed” in life. We can’t guarantee the weather, what other people will or won’t do, the direction of the markets, or even if we’ll be around to see tomorrow.
A few months ago, the U.S. government assumed control of Puerto Rico. As the AP story by Danica Coto reported: “A federal control board on Friday took over Puerto Rico’s finances and several government agencies for the first time in the U.S. territory’s history in a bid to haul the island out of an […]
“You’re not getting old; you’re getting ready.” – Ernestine Shepherd, the world’s oldest female competitive body builder. The numbers are in, and people are living longer! The CDC calculates that overall life expectancy in the U.S. is presently 78.7 years, with women outliving men by an average of 5 years, or 81 years vs. 76 […]
Economic self-reliance: the ability of a person, place or nation to endure successfully without additional financial support from government or other agencies. From earthquakes in Nepal, tsunamis in Indonesia hurricanes in the South, mudslides in Northwest, and drought in Africa (and now, California), it doesn’t take a weather report to convince the average person that […]
“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would a revolution before tomorrow morning.” – Henry Ford Everyone has heard the expression, “It’s like money in the bank!” What could be more reliable or safer than one of our long-standing […]
Those of us with credit cards often receive phone calls from the credit card company that sounds very similar to the one I’m about to describe. It’s imperative to handle it extremely carefully. NEVER EVER provide any information regarding your accounts or you personally.
I sometimes think that we’ve gotten too comfortable in the United States. As long as we can go to the mall, drive our big SUVs, eat good food, download our favorite music from iTunes, pay our big credit card bills and all the other cushy trappings of the American way of life, we can simply […]
I sometimes think that we’ve gotten too comfortable in the United States. As long as we can go to the mall, drive our big SUVs, eat good food, download our favorite music from iTunes, pay our big credit card bills and all the other cushy trappings of the American way of life, we can simply […]
I sometimes think that we’ve gotten too comfortable in the United States. As long as we can go to the mall, drive our big SUVs, eat good food, download our favorite music from iTunes, pay our big credit card bills and all the other cushy trappings of the American way of life, we can simply […]
