Remnant Finance - Infinite Banking (IBC) and Capital Control

Book a call: https://remnantfinance.com/calendarEmail us at [email protected] or visit https://remnantfinance.com for more informationFOLLOW REMNANT FINANCEYoutube: @RemnantFinance (https://www.youtube.com/@RemnantFinance)Facebook: @remnantfinance (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61560694316588)Twitter: @remnantfinance (https://x.com/remnantfinance)TikTok: @RemnantFinanceDon't forget to hit LIKE and SUBSCRIBEHans joins Oto Gomes on the Oto Gomes Crypto Show for a long-form conversation covering his background, the end of his Naval Aviation career, and how a contract fight with the Navy led him to Infinite Banking. The episode opens with a macro segment on the August payroll number coming in at triple expectations, what a strong labor print does to the Fed's split mandate, and why the long end of the curve is not buying what Powell, Warsh, and Bessent are saying, with 52-week highs across the two, five, and ten year.Hans and Oto cover the Kennedy School years and learning macroeconomics from central bankers, the EUA statute and the right to refuse, the boilerplate denials that exposed the religious accommodation process, the recouped bonus and the debt the Navy handed to the Treasury, and the pediatrician appointment that ended the vaccine question permanently. From there they get into human life value and what most families are actually insured for, protect save grow as an order of operations, base premium versus PUA and why structure determines year one cash value, the policy loan and its absence of underwriting or repayment schedule, and the average rate of return fallacy that holds up even with perfect hindsight. Because Oto's audience operates in the private and Hans works in the public, they draw that line explicitly throughout. Chapters 00:00 – Opening Segment 02:20 – Public versus private, and which path this show takes 06:40 – Why the long end is calling the bluff 09:30 – COVID and taking every assumption down to the studs 11:03 – Navy aviation and the grad school program 12:30 – Cambridge, spring 2020, and the two weeks before the shutdown 16:20 – EUA products and the legal case against the mandate 20:40 – Boilerplate denials and a process built to reject 22:40 – Benched for two years, and looking for something to learn 24:30 – "You wrote the contract, I just signed it" 26:30 – The $60,000 bonus and the loan they invented 28:00 – Norfolk, and a billet that did not exist 30:10 – Separation, the Treasury, and 30% on top 33:00 – The class action and what the government settles for 35:00 – Researching the childhood schedule at 50/50 36:30 – The pediatrician appointment that ended the question 42:30 – Pensions, Title X, and the golden handcuffs 49:00 – The Kennedy School and learning macro from central bankers 52:00 – The Creature from Jekyll Island 54:30 – Being handed the book at Thanksgiving 2021 01:00:30 – Getting licensed, then picking it up to disprove it 01:02:30 – Two hundred years of case law and a contract that has never defaulted 01:04:40 – Pirates of Manhattan and whole life as a Tier 1 asset 01:09:00 – Human life value and what your family actually loses 01:11:30 – A McLaren insured like a Civic 01:14:40 – The asset report card and the job of a dollar 01:17:30 – Liability and creditor protection in 48 states 01:20:30 – The average rate of return fallacy 01:26:30 – Planning 30 years out and what that assumed in 1990 01:29:30 – Base premium, PUA, and cash value in year one 01:32:30 – The policy loan and who guarantees the collateral 01:39:30 – The collateral stack and the bank that still hesitated 01:55:00 – Who this is not for 01:57:00 – The mortgage analogy for base and PUA 02:02:00 – Series 65, Remnant Frontier, and the offensive coordinator 02:08:00 – The distribution problem and the 4% rule 02:12:30 – What happens if you clip the three worst years 02:17:30 – Closing Segment

Book a call: https://remnantfinance.com/calendarEmail us at [email protected] or visit https://remnantfinance.com for more informationFOLLOW REMNANT FINANCEYoutube: @RemnantFinance (https://www.youtube.com/@RemnantFinance)Facebook: @remnantfinance (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61560694316588)Twitter: @remnantfinance (https://x.com/remnantfinance)TikTok: @RemnantFinanceDon't forget to hit LIKE and SUBSCRIBEHans joins Sean King's podcast for a long-form conversation covering his background, the collapse of his Navy aviation career, and how a contract fight with the Department of Defense led him to Infinite Banking. The episode opens with a macro segment on Jackson Hole, Kevin Warsh's dismantling of forward guidance, and the Treasury's expanded buyback of off-the-run bonds, plus rising bond yields across Japan, the US, the UK, and Germany. Hans and Sean cover the criticisms of whole life that are worth engaging and the ones that are factually wrong, why he financed a car through a dealer instead of taking a policy loan, where he departs from the purist position on loan repayment, how he sizes an emergency fund using a daily burn rate and a 365-day runway, and why every dollar should be evaluated against the job it is actually doing. They close on low stress options trading as an income strategy, and on Remnant Frontier, the asset management arm Hans is building to bridge the gap between the IBC world and the CFP world.Chapters00:00 – Opening Segment 00:36 – Macro: Jackson Hole and the end of forward guidance 08:16 – The Treasury put and the September 9th buyback 12:03 – Global bond yields and the yen carry trade 13:54 – Hormuz, oil, and gold 15:15 – Labor market softening and the Fed's split mandate 17:10 – Remnant Finance and meeting Brian

Book a call: https://remnantfinance.com/calendarEmail us at [email protected] or visit https://remnantfinance.com for more informationFOLLOW REMNANT FINANCEYoutube: @RemnantFinance (https://www.youtube.com/@RemnantFinance)Facebook: @remnantfinance (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61560694316588)Twitter: @remnantfinance (https://x.com/remnantfinance)TikTok: @RemnantFinanceDon't forget to hit LIKE and SUBSCRIBEIn 1933, a Harvard-trained lawyer walked into Chase National Bank with signed receipts for twenty-seven numbered bars of gold and was told he could not have them. Two days after he sued, a federal grand jury indicted him. He never got the gold back. Hans opens with an update on Brian, who may be home temporarily in September or October but likely stays on active duty orders, then turns to the Treasury's announcement that it is doubling its long end buyback operations from two billion to four billion. The dollar figure is a rounding error against forty trillion in debt. The signal is not, and it is the same move Scott Bessent spent the last two years criticizing Janet Yellen for making.Chapters 00:00 – Opening segment 02:20 – No end in sight and why nobody negotiates with America anymore 06:35 – Reading the macro tape without becoming a permabear 07:55 – The Treasury doubles its long end buybacks 09:15 – The economic equivalent of no new foreign wars 11:50 – Where Hans actually sits on the political spectrum13:10 – Two billion to four billion: the substance of the move 14:05 – Bills, notes, and bonds, and why the distinction matters here 16:35 – Off-the-run long bonds and a disorderly long end 17:35 – What they are buying and what is paying for it 19:00 – One leg of QE, not the money printing leg 20:15 – Yellen's trillion dollar mistake and the two percent mortgage analogy 22:40 – Bessent criticized this exact move, then made it 23:55 – Yield curve control and how far away it actually is 24:25 – Intervening into a record high market with no visible fever 26:00 – The debasement trade and the stock market as pressure release valve 28:30 – The yen intervention and why Japan matters 29:15 – The repo facility and keeping Treasuries out of foreign hands 32:20 – What all three moves have in common 33:30 – Hormuz closed, oil creeping, and an empty petroleum reserve 36:45 – Japan as the roadmap for where this road ends 37:50 – Homeschooling, wristbands, and the safe and inclusive playground 43:35 – Frederick Barber Campbell walks into Chase National Bank 46:05 – The lawsuit, the indictment, and the demurrer 49:50 – When a dollar was a bearer claim on gold 51:55 – Benjamin Strong, the Bank of England, and the boom that had to bust 53:10 – How the Fed was sold to America in 1913 55:50 – Nine thousand banks fail and the money supply drops a third 58:50 – The Fed as an instrument of extraction 01:00:35 – Where America sits in the line, and the prison hierarchy analogy 01:03:50 – Hamilton, specie, and the principle of productive credit 01:06:05 – The bank holiday and the Emergency Banking Act 01:07:45 – Five words added to the Trading with the Enemy Act 01:10:20 – Executive Order 6102 defines hoarding as owning 01:16:20 – The markup from twenty dollars to thirty-five 01:17:35 – The Gold Reserve Act and the Exchange Stabilization Fund 01:18:35 – Marriner Eccles and the fight over the lever of power 01:21:25 – Carter Glass fights the bill he made possible 01:22:30 – The FOMC is created and open market operations take over 01:24:45 – Killing the regional discount rate and the governor it provided 01:27:30 – Half a Keynesian equation with no brakes on the other sideKey TakeawaysThe size of the buyback is not the story. Doubling from two billion to four billion per operation is meaningless against forty trillion in debt. What matters is that the Treasury told the market, in a public press release, that it will step in and buy the long end when demand thins out. 

Book a call: https://remnantfinance.com/calendarEmail us at [email protected] or visit https://remnantfinance.com for more informationFOLLOW REMNANT FINANCEYoutube: @RemnantFinance (https://www.youtube.com/@RemnantFinance)Facebook: @remnantfinance (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61560694316588)Twitter: @remnantfinance (https://x.com/remnantfinance)TikTok: @RemnantFinanceDon't forget to hit LIKE and SUBSCRIBEHans opens this episode with a correction to the original recording, the SECURE 2.0 Act dropped that penalty from 50 percent to 25 percent, and then makes the case that the only incentive that explains the rule at all is that they do not want you leaving it to your children.From there, a macro roundup on the three stories driving the tape right now: the 30-year Treasury clearing above 5.3 percent for the first time since 2007, oil sitting stubbornly in the eighties while the Strategic Petroleum Reserve hits its lowest level since 1982, and the Fed holding its range at 3.5 to 3.75 while the betting markets start pricing a hike rather than a cut. Then a replay of what was, for most of this show's run, its most popular episode. Hans and Brian take apart the conventional financial planning model, starting with the assumption buried underneath all of it: that anyone can predict the future. When you retire, what taxes will be, what inflation does, how long you live, how the market performs. Every one of those has to break your way for the plan to work. Only one has to break against you for it to fall apart.Chapters 00:00 – Opening segment 01:05 – Why part two of the interest rate breakdown is delayed a week 04:55 – Correction: SECURE 2.0 took the RMD penalty from 50 percent to 25 percent 06:45 – The one piece of the tax code Hans cannot steel man 07:00 – How the two gates work: 59 and a half, then 73 08:15 – Reducing the penalty to 10 percent, and why the barrier never really left 10:20 – Tax on the seed versus tax on the harvest 11:55 – Macro roundup: how a Treasury auction actually clears 14:05 – The 30-year breaks 5.3 percent, highest since 2007 14:55 – Heavy federal issuance and the approaching 40 trillion mark 15:50 – AI data center CapEx enters the rate story 16:35 – Three straight down sessions in the S&P 17:00 – Oil, Hormuz, and the lowest SPR level since 1982 20:20 – Why "cooling inflation" is still inflation 22:10 – Replay begins: the airline gig and stop being a passenger 25:50 – What the institutions want, and the four things they are optimizing for 26:40 – Pond money versus river money 27:45 – The blackjack cheat sheet the dealer hands you for free 28:50 – The conventional model in one paragraph 30:50 – Where did 65 come from, and why is it a goal at all 32:25 – The Social Security incentive trap 33:35 – The generation that struck gold on the timeline of history 36:10 – Asset price inflation is not value creation 37:10 – A proposal: let our generation take the hit 40:40 – On spending it all and leaving nothing behind 44:15 – The Waiting List, and what you would actually trade for your children 48:55 – Back to the model: predict the future 50:20 – What will tax rates be in thirty years 53:40 – If taxes double, does your plan survive 53:55 – The family budget slide and what it actually is 59:35 – 1988 prices and the case against linear inflation 1:02:50 – How long will you live, and the barrel of water on the island 1:05:35 – Market performance as a load-bearing assumption 1:06:45 – Closing segmentKey TakeawaysThe conventional plan is a stack of predictions dressed as a strategy. When you retire, what tax brackets look like decades out, what inflation does to the cost of a car or a house, how long you live, and what the market returns over the accumulation window.

Book a call: https://remnantfinance.com/calendarEmail us at [email protected] or visit https://remnantfinance.com for more informationFOLLOW REMNANT FINANCEYoutube: @RemnantFinance (https://www.youtube.com/@RemnantFinance)Facebook: @remnantfinance (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61560694316588)Twitter: @remnantfinance (https://x.com/remnantfinance)TikTok: @RemnantFinanceDon't forget to hit LIKE and SUBSCRIBEThe Fed cut rates and your mortgage went up. If that never made sense to you, this episode is the explanation. In part one of a two-part solo breakdown, Hans starts with the three interest rate stories dominating the macro headlines right now, the stubborn 10-year Treasury, Kevin Warsh's campaign to kill forward guidance, and Japan quietly letting its Treasury holdings roll off, and uses them as the entry point to a much bigger question: who actually sets the price of money?Chapters 00:00 – Opening Segment 01:00 – Setting up the interest rate primer 02:25 – Headline one: the 10-year Treasury refuses to fall 03:55 – Why a weak jobs report makes the stock market celebrate 06:40 – Headline two: Kevin Warsh is killing forward guidance 09:00 – Shorter statements, no dot plot, and a market that has to do its own homework 13:35 – Headline three: Japan stops rolling its Treasury holdings 16:10 – The food chain: it was never one dial 20:25 – The fed funds rate is banks lending each other reserves overnight 25:25 – The dual mandate, CPI versus PCE, and how inflation gets measured 29:35 – Reserve requirements are now zero 32:15 – IORB: the floor the Fed actually sets 37:55 – The reverse repo facility and the discount rate ceiling 39:20 – The repo market: a pawn shop moving trillions a night 42:45 – LIBOR, the 2012 scandal, and the move to SOFR 44:10 – Primary dealers and the price of the golden ticket 47:00 – What QE really is and why the Fed can't buy direct from Treasury 52:00 – Inside a Treasury auction: bids, clearing yield, and the tail 57:05 – Recap and what's coming in part twoKey TakeawaysThere is no such thing as "the" interest rate. There is a stack of them, and the Fed only has real influence over the short end. Everything between the Fed and your mortgage is a chain of institutions taking the rate handed to them, adding yield, and passing it down. The fed funds rate is not a number anybody types into a computer. It is a real market rate set between banks settling reserves overnight, and the Fed steers it with incentives rather than force. Forward guidance has been the Fed's most powerful tool, and it costs nothing to use. Saying the conditions might align for a cut can move markets as effectively as an actual cut, which is why Warsh trimming statements and abandoning the dot plot amounts to a real policy shift. The repo market, not the fed funds market, is where the money actually is. Fed funds is a small, uncollateralized club of primary dealers. Quantitative easing is the one situation where "printing money out of thin air" is literally accurate. The Fed is barred from buying new issues directly from Treasury, so the twenty-four primary dealers absorb whatever the auction does not clear and the Fed buys from them with newly created reserves. Treasury auctions price on demand, not decree. Treasury announces the quantity, buyers submit the yields they will accept, bids fill from lowest to highest, and the yield on the last dollar sold becomes the yield everybody gets.