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Dollars and Nonsense

Dollars and Nonsense focuses on helping individuals and families find financial freedom by leveraging the Infinite Banking Concept. The podcast delivers real-world tips, tricks, and techniques for anyone wanting to take their wealth to the next level. We do all this through the hosts sharing their vast knowledge and sitting down with experts. Plus, the show is for the average person—you don’t have to be a financial expert or an economics professor to get a metric ton out of every episode. We extract priceless resources and action steps for you and deliver them in a 30-minute bi-monthly show. Learn more about the show by visiting https://livingwealth.com/podcast/ Infinite banking is a financial strategy, sometimes called IBC, or the infinite banking concept, that allows you to control your savings and debt needs, helping you become your own banker, in essence. It was formalized by finance expert R. Nelson Nash in the early 1980s. But its roots go back much further.
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Now displaying: December, 2017
Dec 25, 2017

In this episode, we take a close look at Dave Ramsey's advice on finance. We discuss who it's good for, who it's not good for, some things that he says that is great advice, and other things that some would say would be poor advice.

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A lot of us know who Dave Ramsey is. He is on 500 radio stations across the US.

Some of what Ramsey shares is good and some we would call poor advice. So you need to start asking yourself this question, "Does this make sense?"

The best thing is that he helps people that do not know how to control their spending or to live within their means. And he does teach a disciplined approach to actually budget and live within your means. His advice and strategies are great if you're struggling to get a system in place that gives you the ability to start saving.

The Best and Worst Dave Ramsey's Advice Topics Discussed:

  • Who the advice is good for
  • Who the advice is bad for
  • The wisdom of having an emergency fund
  • Budgeting and living within your means
  • The advanced topics Ramsey leaves out
  • How you're drawn into the stories and miss asking the hard questions
  • When "buying term and investing the difference" isn't the right decision to make
  • The different kinds of whole-life insurance policies and their annual growth rates
  • The whole truth about mutual funds generating a 12%  rate of return
  • Doing the math on mutual funds for retirement
  • The hidden fees not accounted for eating up wealth
  • How whole life stacks up against mutual funds
  • The differences between good debt and bad debt
  • What the wealthy high-level financial players like Robert Kiyosaki do
  • When Dave Ramsey doesn't follow his own logic and math with home mortgages
Dec 11, 2017
In this episode, we question the notion that you save money using tax-deferred programs. Typically, this is sold through funding your IRA or your 401K. We'll also clarify what we believe a real tax-savings is.

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https://livingwealth.com/e31
 
We hear a lot from our clients come this time of the year saying, "Hey, I normally fund my IRA or my 401K because my tax bill is so high. The common thought is that you will save money on taxes by funding them.
 
But we have a beef with this. It doesn't actually save money on taxes. It's a smoking mirrors type of thing.
 
What people don't really understand is that on these deferred programs you're not actually saving any money on taxes. They're not called the tax savings programs. However, they are called tax-deferred programs.
 
We discuss in more detail in this episode...
 
~ The Tax-Saving Hoax of Tax-Deferred Programs Topics Discussed: ~
 
    * Doing the math
    * Tax-savings vs. tax-deferred
    * The long-term outlook on tax rates
    * IRAs and 401Ks
    * The impact of inflation
    * Opportunity costs
    * Leveraging whole life insurance policies
 
Episode Takeaways: 
 
"When you put money into the tax-deferred program, you truly are eroding your wealth due to the time and inflation."
 
"Every time you put money where you can't touch it, you're automatically guaranteeing the dollars that come back are weaker."
 
"looking to reduce, not defer, but reduce taxes is to think how you can serve people and start a business."
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