Financial crises create panic. Long-term thinkers create stability.

In this episode of Make Your Wealth Work, Jason K. Powers and Joe Pantozzi sit down with Dr. Paul Mueller, Senior Research Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research and author of 10 Years Later: Why the Conventional Wisdom About the 2008 Financial Crisis Is Still Wrong.

The conversation begins with the 2008 financial crisis, but quickly expands into a broader discussion about economic uncertainty, interest rates, regulation, and the unintended consequences of policy decisions.

More importantly, this episode explores how individuals should respond.

Dr. Mueller discusses how fear-driven headlines distort perspective, why interest rates and inflation matter more than most people realize, and how disciplined capital formation protects families during volatile times.

Jason and Joe connect these big-picture lessons back to personal strategy:

1. Why patience beats panic
2. The danger of lifestyle inflation
3. The importance of capital and liquidity
4. Why long-term thinking creates freedom
5. And how controlling the banking function in your life provides stability

In uncertain times, reacting emotionally is easy. Thinking long-range is powerful.

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Most people don’t realize they’re stuck until they slow down long enough to ask better questions.

In this episode of Make Your Wealth Work, Jason K. Powers and Joe Pantozzi walk through the three questions that change how your money actually works in your life:

1. Where does the dollar live?
2. Who controls it?
3. Can it keep growing while you use it?

These questions expose why so many people feel trapped financially, even when they earn good money. Jason and Joe unpack how dollars quietly leak into banks, lenders, retirement plans, debt, or nowhere at all, and why control matters more than chasing returns.

They also explain how this lens connects directly to becoming your own banker, building real savings, maintaining discipline, and creating uninterrupted growth instead of start-and-stop progress.

This episode isn’t about telling you what to invest in. It’s about helping you see your money differently, so every future decision is made on purpose, not by default.

If you’ve ever felt like you’re working hard but not getting ahead, this conversation will give you a new framework to think through every money move.

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Every year starts with good intentions, but most people stay stuck in the same financial patterns.

In this episode of Make Your Wealth Work, Joe Pantozzi & Jason K Powers break down the real cost of waiting, not just in dollars, but in lost opportunity, rising debt, inflation, and time you can never get back.

They explain why focusing on rate of return too early misses the point, why saving comes before investing, how Parkinson’s Law quietly sabotages progress, and why taking imperfect action beats waiting for the perfect plan.

If you’ve been telling yourself “I’ll get to it later,” this conversation will challenge that mindset and help you rethink how your money should actually work for you.

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