The Paul Truesdell Podcast

The Deadly Poison of Nullification How the Selective Application of Justice Is Destroying the Republic and Why the Reckoning Will Be Severe By Paul Grant Truesdell, JD, AIF 1 What We Are Witnessing Is Nullification and It Will Not End Well: A Warning From History There is a principle in American jurisprudence that most citizens never learn about in school, and for good reason. It is called jury nu...

Freeloaders And Fantasies Why Europe Collapsed While America Course Corrected Trump as plain-speaking truth teller who communicates complex realities to ordinary people Europe's self-inflicted irrelevance through destruction of economy, industry, military, and diplomatic influence The freeloader analogy comparing Europe to an employee who cannot perform, will not learn, but expects full compensati...

Greenland Is Not About Ice. It Is About America. Let me tell you something that most people do not want to hear. Greenland is not some frozen wasteland at the top of the world that we should ignore. Greenland is the key to North American security in the twenty-first century, and anyone who cannot see that is either not paying attention or does not want you to understand what is really happening on...

Follow the Money Where Campaign Cash Really Comes From, Who Benefits from Climate Policy, and Why Christians Stay Silent About China By Paul Truesdell Before I begin… Why I Do Long-Form: A Four-Minute Explanation You know what’s funny? Every marketing guru out there tells me I’m doing it all wrong. “Paul, you need to be on TikTok. You need fifteen-second clips. You need memes. You need to hook ‘em...

Rough Draft / Script  When the power was cut to the Stone Creek Republican Club Christmas party in 2025, think about it. When power was cut to the George Bush presidential campaign visit to the Villages in 2004 by a disgruntled Democratic Party operative working for Sumter Electric, think about it. When Covid lockdowns took place and you were told to trust the science without being allowed to ques...

Rough Notes Paul Truesdell dot Com When a nation loses its people, it loses everything else shortly thereafter. This is not philosophy or political commentary. This is arithmetic. An economy requires workers to produce, consumers to purchase, and taxpayers to fund the infrastructure that makes commerce possible. Remove the people, and the entire system unravels like a cheap sweater. History offers...

Casual Cocktail Conversations and Client Coffee Quarterly at The Truesdell Companies Wednesday, December 31, 2025 – Episode 526 Somewhere along the way, the financial services industry decided that the best way to talk to people about their money was to put them in a conference room with stale coffee, a PowerPoint presentation, and a sales pitch dressed up as education. You sit there for an hour,...

The Variable Annuity Money Pit Tuesday, December 30, 2025 - Episode 525 Now let's talk about variable annuities, which might be the most cleverly disguised fee machine the financial services industry ever invented. And I say that with the kind of admiration you'd give a con artist who manages to pick your pocket while shaking your hand. Here's how they work, and pay attention because the industry...

The Cost Blindness Problem Let me tell you something that might sting a little, but sometimes the truth does that. After thousands of conversations over the years, I can tell you with near certainty that about half the people I sit down with simply do not want to know what they are paying. Not cannot know. Will not know. There is a difference, and it matters. I call it willful cost blindness, and...

The Bundled Financial Product Problem and How to Solve It Let me tell you something most financial advisors would rather you not think about. When you invest your hard-earned money into what the industry calls bundled financial products, you are paying for layers of costs that are about as transparent as mud in a Mississippi river bottom. Some of these costs are disclosed, sure. But many of them a...

Adverse Possession and Why Every Property Owner Should Understand It Use It or Lose It Is Not Just a Saying The Quiet Way Strangers Can Take Your Land Most people have never heard the term adverse possession until someone tries to take a piece of their land using it. By then, it is usually too late to do much about it except hire a lawyer and hope for the best. That is not a position you want to f...

Truesdell Wealth, Inc. The Big Beautiful Bill and What It Means for Real Estate Investors Over Fifty-Five When Washington Hands Out Candy, Check the Wrapper The Big Beautiful Bill and the Salesmen Who Love It On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law. The name alone ought to tell you something about how Washington operates these days, but setting aside the sal...

Keep Your Eye on the Ball This Christmas - Christmas Calm for Conservatives Merry Christmas, friends. Part of celebrating this season means wishing for peace on earth and goodwill toward your fellow men and women. That spirit of goodwill ought to extend even into the sometimes messy world of conservative politics. Now, if you've been paying attention to the news lately, you've probably seen the st...

Picking Your Pocket With a Permission The Paul Truesdell Podcast How medical inflation, healthcare consolidation, and congressional laziness are draining your wallet dry. Medical inflation is picking your pocket while Congress holds the door open. Every year, the bills get bigger, the explanations get longer, and the solutions get further away. Employers are drowning. Employees are stretched thin....