Jeffrey Reeves is a licensed life insurance agent. He formerly was a registered securities rep but gained wisdom with age. Jeff has been guiding clients for almost 40 years as they chart their paths to financial security. During this time clients, insurance professionals, and financial advisors have all contributed ideas, strategies and tactics to the arsenal of tools that emerge throughout Jeff's practice - Money for Life…in good times and bad - also the title of h
What I'm Reading
Blogs, newsletters, internet articles and any thing else that deals with what is being said - true and not so true - about how Americans should run their personal economies. I continue to read religious and spiritual books, magazines and anything else related.
Subjects I'd Like to Learn More About
Archaeology, science, history, the future, myself, my family and friends
An Interesting Fact
I have made more mistakes and experienced more mistakes by others than a hundred typical Americans and have learned from every one of them
Myth…No. 6 - My Financial Advisor Knows
This may be the biggest myth of all. Some of my best friends and clients are financial planners and advisors. They perform a valuable service, especially those who are specialized and focused on one particular aspect of the market and have an open mind toward the processes that [...] Read Full Story
Myth No. 4 - I Have A Retirement Plan From Work
Myth: my company has a pension/profit sharing/401k/other plan that promises me a secure future income.
Reality: Enron, MCI, US West/Qwest, Mutual Benefit Life, United Airlines, and many other well known and superficially reputable and stable companies have defaulted on retirement plans in the past and many [...] Read Full Story
Myth No. 2 - “My Home Will Keep Me Secure.”
Let me tell you a story.[1] Abigail had been in the military for 19 years when a stroke put her out of commission at the age of 52. She only qualified for a small military pension and a small monthly Social Security disability/retirement income.
“But,” she thought, [...] Read Full Story
Seven Myths and Seven Mysteries of Personal Finance and Personal Economics
For the past half century, the hubris-laden financial industry has led Americans to believe that the individuals and organizations on Wall Street - renamed Dull Street by the author - and their minions on Main Street know more than we do about our personal finances [...] Read Full Story
If you were wondering about how the medical professionals feel about the insane national health care proposals in DC, read this article from the highly repected Investors Business Daily. It is submitted without comment because it speaks loudly for itself…
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=506199 Read Full Story
Dear Kay,
At www.youBEthebank.com we are committed to re-educate America about the power, flexibility, and versatility of dividend paying whole life insurance and the extraordinary benefit of participating with like-minded people in ownership of mutual insurance companies. To this end, we have sacrificed the past several years of our life to write and publish books, blogs, [...] Read Full Story
Setting the Stage…
The men that came together in Philadelphia to craft the Declaration of Independence in 1776 were, for the most part, ideologues. Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston were on the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Adams and Jefferson in particular were at different points on an [...] Read Full Story
The primary aim of this blog is to inform and educate Americans about ways to create and manage personal economies that thrive in good times and bad.
Unfortunately, in 2009 the Federal Government and the US Congress pose the greatest threat to our collective financial security. Their greed for the accretion of power and unparalleled confiscation [...] Read Full Story
The primary aim of this blog is to inform and educate Americans about ways to create and manage personal economies that thrive in good times and bad.
Unfortunately, in 2009 the Federal Government and the US Congress pose the greatest threat to our collective financial security. Their greed for the accretion of power and unparalleled confiscation [...] Read Full Story
Remember that averages are meaningless in planning your future. Are you going to live the average life span? Is your retirement account average - $143,000? Do you expect to receive the average social Security check - $1077.00?
Remember also that most of what the pundits,financial planners and investment advisors call “investments” are actually speculations.
Benjamin Graham, the Dean [...] Read Full Story
