Wise Money Tools
Learn everything you want to know about Infinite Banking, Leveraging Life Insurance, Real Estate, Bitcoin, Bitcoin mining and ways to skyrocket your wealth. Dan has been in the financial planning business for almost 40 years. Starting out as a stockbroker, Dan learned quickly that the Wall-Street methods simply do not work. Join Dan on his journey to finding the most predictable, wealth building investments that Wall Street won't tell you about. Don't miss the Wise Money Tools Podcast--with Dan Thompson.
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This one touched my heart. Our Spanish host, Briseida, left shoot day early to join a finance class in Spanish, because finance terms are different from everyday English and Spanish, and she wanted to truly understand what she teaches. It hit me: I grew up with parents who lived paycheck to paycheck, and I was never taught money either. She's probably not alone, and neither are you. Start with the terms: compounding, leverage, time...
The 4% rule sounds comforting until you stress test it. Say you have $1M in retirement accounts: 4% is $40,000 — but after taxes that's closer to $32-33K of spendable income, maybe $55-60K with Social Security. Now drop that into 2022: markets fall 15-20%, your $1M becomes $816K — about four years of income gone. Next year, do you take 4% of the original million or 4% of what's left? Do you add the inflation adjustment?...
The safest asset isn't your 401k, your rental property, or your stock portfolio — it's control. When you control an asset, you control the cash flow, the tax treatment, and the leverage. Step 1: label every asset you own as controlled by you or controlled by the market. Step 2: open a properly structured cash value life insurance policy built for cash value, not death benefit. Step 3: use that policy as collateral to acquire ...
She's recorded 100+ videos for our channel — and just told me she never fully understood the terms she was saying on camera. It broke my heart, and made me realize how many of you probably don't understand them either.
Terms to know: compounding, leverage, time value of money, rate of return, ROI, IRR, net operating income, debt service ratio, appreciation, dividends, capital gains, passive income, m...
The 4% retirement rule sounds simple: build a large portfolio and withdraw 4% each year.
But what happens when the market drops 20% shortly after you retire?
You're not just dealing with investment losses. You're still withdrawing money while your portfolio is down — creating what many investors know as sequence-of-returns risk.
That's why retirement planning shouldn't rely solely on selling assets to generate income.
A stron...
Most people know the 50/30/20 rule:
50% for needs.
30% for wants.
20% for saving and investing.
But what if you flipped it?
The 30/50/20 approach puts saving and investing FIRST — because you can never get yesterday back, and the sooner your money starts compounding, the more time it has to grow.
Building wealth isn't about making more money and hoping everything works out.
It's about having a strategy.
In this video, Dan breaks down five essential principles for building long-term wealth: living below your means, investing early, using lever...
You don't build wealth overnight.
You build it through small actions repeated over time.
The four keys:
⏳ Time
📈 Compounding
⚡ Leverage
💰 Tax Advantages
The question is:
Is your money working as hard as you are?
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Your cash value shouldn't just sit there.
The wealthy have used leverage for generations:
Store capital safely.
Access liquidity.
Create opportunities.
Keep money working.
The goal isn't taking unnecessary risk.
It's making your money more efficient.
For decades, people were told the same retirement formula:
Save. Invest. Wait. Hope.
But what happens when the market crashes right before retirement?
A 30%, 40%, or 50% drop can change everything.
The question isn't just how much money you have.
It's whether your money is built to su...
Most people spend decades chasing money…
But never learn how to make money work.
The wealthy understand leverage, cash flow, taxes, and assets that can create income.
The question is simple:
Are you working for your money, or is your money working for y...
Most people plan retirement like this:
Pick an age… then figure out the bare minimum to survive.
That's not a plan.
That's scarcity.
Cut expenses.
Pay everything off.
The 4% rule sounds simple:
Withdraw 4%… and you're set for life.
But reality isn't that predictable.
Markets drop.
Inflation rises.
Income shrinks.
And suddenly… your "safe"...
Most advisors don't have a strategy problem… they have a targeting problem.
The fastest way to lose confidence?
Explaining a great idea to the wrong person.
When you learn who to talk to — everything chang...
Most financial advice sounds the same… because it is the same.
This is different.
The Elite Fifty isn't about selling products — it's about building a real wealth strategy using tax efficiency, income, and long-term asset growth.
Most financial advice sounds the same… because it is the same.
This is different.
The Elite Fifty isn't about selling products — it's about building a real wealth strategy using tax efficiency, income, and long-term asset growth.
This isn't traditional life insurance — it's a wealth strategy.
Ynsurance turns a policy into a capital system:
• Build cash value
• Deploy into Bitcoin yield
• Capture ma...
Most people don't struggle with money because they're lazy or careless — they struggle because no one ever taught them how money actually works. We inherit financial habits, not financial education. I learned early that hard work alone doesn't build wealth.
Compounding matters — but compounding without leverage, tax efficiency, and cash flow isn't enough. That's why we built Ysureance and tokenization strategies: to do ...
Bitcoin isn't complicated — it's misunderstood. It's stored energy, protected by math, scarcity, and a global network that never sleeps.
With the Z Token, Bitcoin yield is delivered monthly to your self-custody wallet — no exchanges, no middlemen, no guessing. Stable position. Real accumulation. Long-term contro...
This moment stopped me in my tracks. Someone on our team is taking a finance class — not because she isn't smart, but because money was never explained to her in her language.
It reminded me that most people don't struggle with money because they're lazy — they struggle because no one ever taught them the rules. Edu...
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