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The Lara-Murphy Report — 89 episodes
Episode 89: The Fed Just Lost a Trillion Dollars--Should We Care?
Episode 88: Is the United States Hopeless at This Point?
Episode 87: Is the US in a Recession or Not? Making Sense of the Numbers
Episode 86: The Fed Is Officially Bankrupt--Should We Care?
Episode 85: How Is Today's Economy Like the 1970s?
Episode 84: Is a Recession Coming? Listen to the Austrians
Episode 83: Will Inflation and Yield Curve Hurt Bonds and Ruin the Case for IBC?
Episode 82: How to Weather the Coming Financial Storms (Redux)
Episode 81: Return of the IBC Jedi
Episode 80: The Hidden Forces Behind Our Slide Into Tyranny
Episode 79: Does Fed Inflation Threaten IBC?
Episode 78: On the Fed’s Emergency Actions to Stem Coronavirus Panic
Episode 77: The 2020 IBC Think Tank and Outlook for the Future
Episode 76: The Trump Tax Reform’s Impact on Charitable Giving, And Beto’s Threat to Churches
Episode 75: The Psychology and Economics of Recurring Financial Crashes
Episode 74: Carlos Lara Explains His Absence, and How He’s Back in the Saddle
Episode 73: Dr. Keith Smith Tells Doctors and Patients How to Secede From the Broken Health Care and Insurance System
Episode 72: IBC “Jumbo” Policies, Trusts, and the Estate Tax
Episode 71: Shadow Banking and the Real Estate Market
Episode 70: IBC and the Business Owner, Part 3 of 3
Episode 69: IBC and the Business Owner, Part 2 of 3
Episode 68: IBC and the Business Owner, Part 1 of 3
Episode 67: The Economic Outlook for 2019
Episode 66: Getting Into the Minds of Federal Reserve Officials
Episode 65: Should You Fully Fund an IBC Policy ASAP or Leave Room for a Windfall?
Episode 64: Why Is the Stock Market So Shaky?
Episode 63: Why Learn Austrian Economics?
Episode 62: Why Not Just Pay Cash?
Episode 61: Stumbling Blocks in Learning IBC
Episode 60: “Should I Take Out Multiple IBC Policies?”
Episode 59: Bob Murphy’s Speech at the Libertarian Party “Mises Caucus” Event
Episode 58: Central Bank Strategy and Trump’s Playbook for the Economy
Episode 57: Policy Loans: With Freedom Comes Responsibility
Episode 56: The Case for IBC: Chapter 7, “Putting IBC Into Action”
Episode 55: The Case for IBC: Chapter 6, “Lessons From History”
Episode 54: The Case for IBC: Chapter 5, Part II, “The Economics of IBC”
Episode 53: The Case for IBC: Chapter 5, Part I, “The Economics of IBC”
Episode 52: The Case for IBC: Chapter 4, “Becoming Your Own Banker”
Episode 51: The Case for IBC: Chapter 3, “Banking and Life Insurance: Process vs. Platform”
Episode 50: Murphy Debates Climate Change at Yale Political Union
Episode 49: The Case for IBC: Chapter 2, “The ‘Perfect Investment’”
Episode 48: The Case for IBC: Chapter 1, “Thinking Like a Business Owner”
Episode 47: Orwell, Yield Curve, and New Book!
Episode 46: What the fork?! Bitcoin vs. Bitcoin Cash
Episode 45: The GOP Tax Plan: Theory and History
Episode 44: Is There a Real Estate Bubble?
Episode 43: IBC BEST PRACTICES: Policy Loans and Tax Implications of Surrender
Episode 42: Do the Feds Have a Plan to Unload the Fed’s Bonds?
Episode 41: Are There Any Negatives to Positive Thinking?
Episode 40: The Pending DOL Ruling on Financial Professionals
Episode 39: Interview With Nelson Nash (Part 2 of 2)
Episode 38: Interview With Nelson Nash (Part 1 of 2)
Episode 37: GOP Tax Reform and International Trade (Part 3 of 3)
Episode 36: GOP Tax Reform and International Trade (Part 2 of 3)
Episode 35: GOP Tax Reform and International Trade (Part 1 of 3)
Episode 34: What Does the Trump Administration Mean for the Economy?
Episode 33: Carlos and Bob Read the Intel Report on Russian “Hacking”
Episode 32: The Introduction to “How Privatized Banking Really Works”
Episode 31: The Financial Year in Review
Episode 30: The City of God versus the City of Man
Episode 29: Explaining Common Financial Terms
Episode 28: How to Weather the Coming Financial Storms, Part 2 of 2
Episode 27: How to Weather the Coming Financial Storms, Part 1 of 2
Episode 26: Danger WIll Robinson: European Banks and US Debt
Episode 25: Why You Should NOT Implement IBC With Universal Life
Episode 24: Is Passive Investing Worse Than Marxism?
Episode 23: Why IBC Works: Highlights from the Nashville Public Seminar
Episode 22: European Banks Are in Trouble
Episode 21: Are the Markets Signaling Confidence or Fear?
Episode 20: A Minority View on “Brexit”
Episode 19: How Policy Loans Work
Episode 18: How-To Guide for Starting IBC, Part 2
Episode 17: How-To Guide for Starting IBC, Part 1
Episode 16: How Governments Use Inflation as a Hidden Tax, Part 2
Episode 15: How Governments Use Inflation as a Hidden Tax, Part 1
Episode 14: What the Department of Labor Ruling Means for Financial Professionals
Episode 13: The Perils of Bankruptcy for the Business Owner
Episode 12: Why Taxes Make Business Less Efficient
Episode 11: What You Need to Know About the National Debt
Episode 10: The Contributions of Ludwig von Mises to Economic Theory
Episode 9: Explaining Bank-Owned Life Insurance (BOLI)
Episode 8: Pay Tax Now or Later?
Episode 7: The Nuttiness of Negative Interest Rates
Episode 6: What’s Wrong With ‘Buy Term & Invest the Difference’? Part 3
Episode 5: What’s Wrong With ‘Buy Term & Invest the Difference’? Part 2
Episode 4: What’s Wrong With ‘Buy Term & Invest the Difference’? Part 1
Episode 3: Your Money Isn’t Safe in the Bank
Episode 2: Lara-Murphy Origins, Part 2
Episode 1: Lara-Murphy Origins, Part 1