The Power of Zero Podcast
Hosted by David McKnight
Tax rates 10 years from now are likely to be much higher than they are today. Is your retirement plan ready? Learn how to avoid the coming tax freight train and maximize your retirement dollars.
Today’s episode focuses on the difference between your effective and marginal tax rate and which one is relevant in different financial planning contexts. For David, the American tax system works exactly like a graduated cylinder: your money flows...
David explains how, normally, we think of the sequence of return risk as the risk associated with the order in which you experience investment returns in your stock market portfolio in retirement. There are a couple of different ways you can safeguard...
There are dozens of contexts in which life insurance gets used, but 95% of the time, and from a Power of Zero planning standpoint, it gets used in two different ways. David explains how having a certain amount in your taxable bucket may sound great...
David discusses how Mitt Romney is at the forefront of trying to save Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, solve the national debt problem, all while simultaneously trying to save the country. In a recent interview with former Power of Zero Show guest...
Mark Byelich doesn’t know when taxes are ever going to be lower than they are right now. David sees Medicare, not Social Security, as the main issue because Medicare is five times more expensive and it’s what’s really going to be driving debt...
Normally, it takes a year to add $1 trillion to the national debt. With Covid-19, we have added $6 trillion to the debt. Something that usually happens in 6 years took place in 3 months. David believes that instead of cutting the various programs, the...
