The Power Of Zero Show

Maya is the President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. The committee itself has been around for a couple decades at this point and came about after several members of Congress left …

In Prosperity in the Age of Decline, the authors are predicting that 2030 will be the opening year of the greatest depression since 1930. Dr. Kotlikoff believes that it might not wait until 2030.

Chi…

The official debt-to-GDP numbers are on track to be 110% by the end of the year, which is nearly a 30% increase over the last decade. The trouble is this calculation doesn’t count unfunded obligation…

Brian Beaulieu is in the business of predicting economic trends. He’s been forecasting trends for the past 39 years and he’s very transparent about his methods. Brian is politically agnostic and aims…

There is a new bill moving through Congress right now that has bipartisan support and is fairly likely to pass in its current form.

We can get a good sense of what the bill is intended to do by looki…

With the recent release of the US Census we are getting a picture of the upcoming demographic time bomb facing the country.

The 2020 census revealed that there are 331 million US residents, which rep…

This is an apolitical podcast. The goal is to call out fiscal irresponsibility no matter what side of the aisle it’s on. It’s less about politics and more about math.

Joe Biden recently came up with …

If you want to maximize the amount of money you can safely spend in retirement some economists say that you should sell some of your bonds and replace them with annuities. According to Tom Hegna, the…

Bernie Sanders is heading up the proposals regarding estate taxes, and his proposals are deviating to some extent from what President Biden has campaigned on.

Joe Biden’s plan says that the estate ta…

Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is a pernicious threat to the Republic and has become a popular theory among left-leaning economists.

MMT is less an economical theory than it is a political theory. Ther…

Now that Joe Biden has the pandemic relief bill behind him, he can begin to focus on his tax plan which he heavily campaigned on before the election.

Joe Biden’s pledge that nobody making less than $…

If you have a history of premature death or cancer in your family you may still be a good candidate for an annuity. If your spouse has longevity it can still be a good option. Even if you’re not in t…

Popular speakers in the financial and retirement space like Ken Fisher and Suzy Orman have made annuities rather unattractive. The major objection has to do with the supposed fees of the product, eve…

The amount of money that we’ve printed over the course of the past year and what we’ll print in 2021 is equivalent to the entire economy of Japan.

Van Mueller believes that at some point in the futur…

The general public should definitely be paying attention to the impact of inflation and what’s driving it. The government has gone to such ridiculous measures printing money that by the year 2029 the…

Some people have a concern about the implications of the tax arbitrage they could be receiving if they just waited. This is the key to the Roth plans and Life Insurance vehicles that Ed described.

Th…

Ed Slott has a new book coming out called The New Retirement Savings Time Bomb. It’s the updated version of the original book written 20 years ago where the time bomb was the tax building up in your …

Joe Biden’s tax proposal has serious implications for anyone attempting to use the Power of Zero paradigm for their retirement planning.

We know that the current tax cuts enacted by President Trump w…

There are some basic updates and thresholds you need to be aware of if you’re interested in implementing the Power of Zero strategy.

The first change is that your standard deduction went from $24,800…

Due to low prevailing interest rates, the federal government has restricted the ability of industry experts to show the robust rates of return that LIRPs are capable of.

When the Consolidated Appropr…