conventional finance

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Problem, Worldview

The Myth of Self-Insurance: Why You Can’t Insure Your Own Life

Self-insurance isn’t insurance. It’s risk retention, and when a life is lost, the family left behind pays the cost. Here’s why the plan fails.

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Build A Foundation
Principles, Problem

The Financial Foundation Modern Planning Skips

Modern financial planning treats investing as the start of wealth-building. It should come after you’ve built an accessible working capital reserve.

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Problem

Lies and Rates of Return: Why Rate of Return Is Not an Interest Rate

Rate of return and interest rate are not the same thing. Conflating them produces dangerously wrong projections of future wealth. Here’s the difference.

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Is Tradfi really traditional?
Problem, Worldview

Is TradFi really traditional? The History of 401(k)s, Roth IRAs, and Conventional Finance

“Traditional Finance” is not traditional. There is an older more efficient way to finance your life.

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Introduction, Worldview

Reformed Finance is More Than a Name

Our financial system is broken, it is not designed to work for us. It needs to be Reformed.

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