Looking around at the economic turmoil we’ve experienced post-pandemic, it’s easy to get discouraged. You may feel that everything you thought you knew about creating and preserving wealth is wrong. You may think that finding prosperity and lasting wealth despite the chaos is an impossible task. Fortunately, there are some steps you can take right now to help keep your wealth from being completely devastated by inflation, bank shenanigans, wrongheaded policies, and market downturns.

47% of Baby Boomers regret not starting retirement planning earlier. 35% wish they had more cash stashed away. By age 65, the average American has only saved 30% of the $1 million they’ll need to maintain their comfortable lifestyles once they stop working.” Teresa Kuhn

Fears of robot overlords may be a tad overblown, at least for now. I’ll be the first to admit that I am sometimes a little unnerved when I realize just how far the artificial language model known as ChatGPT has come. My anxiety increases whenever one of the artificial intelligence world’s biggest fanboys proclaims, “Robots will be able to do everything better than us.”

The concept of centralized global currencies has been around for some time now. However, this idea has raced from concept to reality as cash usage in the United States and globally continues to drop. Many people are eager to find alternatives to physical cash. Widespread support for a cashless society hasn’t gone unnoticed by central bankers, governments, and corporations. As we know from history, these entities may have less than noble purposes and are usually eager to exert greater control over people’s lives, including their financial lives.

Bank-owned and company-owned life insurance (BOLI-COLI) has a proven track record of helping corporations fund executive compensation and improving their bottom lines.