"Most investors are building their portfolios for an economic era that no longer exists."
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Bitcoin, gold, stocks, real estate, notes, royalties, tax structure, and privacy. The complete self-directed playbook for the new monetary era. Free to attend.
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"I was a very busy physician with a good income for 40 years. I did not understand what was going on with our financial system until the past several years and you have added to my knowledge… Most physicians are poor investors I have heard. Add me to the list. What you are doing is going to bless many people's lives."
"The old formula of working for one company all your life and retiring securely is no longer reliable. Joe explains the macro environment and then drills down into specific action steps to take and help one secure financial independence."
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"Utilizing The Phoenician League's process and resources I've built up more passive monthly income than I ever thought possible."
"The main reason I joined The Phoenician League was to get more coherence around my investing practice and to understand real-estate better. I think that the capital model, stock picks, gold and silver run-down and learning about limit orders were all very valuable."
The problem
Paper assets are showing cracks. Stocks, bonds, and 60/40 portfolios were designed for an era of dollar dominance and falling rates. That era ended. While the market has continued to move higher, many individual stocks have been left behind. Most portfolios haven't adapted.
Conventional financial advice is built for institutions, not individuals. The mainstream financial media tells you to "stay the course." That is advice optimized for their business model, not your financial independence.
The macro environment has shifted underneath your feet. Gold is remonetizing. Energy is underinvested. Bitcoin is being treated as a reserve asset by sovereign nations. The "Rules-Based World Order" is dead... the rulebook has changed.
Most investors have no framework for what comes next. Not because they lack intelligence — but because no one with a mainstream platform benefits from admitting that we're entering a completely new era.
Why this summit is different
Gold, Bitcoin, stocks, real estate, mortgage notes, royalties, macro analysis, tax structure, and privacy — in one week, from people who actually work in each of those markets. Most events pick one asset class and call it a strategy. We put them into a blueprint.
All of these speakers live and breathe what they're teaching — a real bullion dealership, an active note-buying operation, hands-on real estate acquisitions, professional investment analysts, a tax practice built from scratch. This isn't commentary from the sidelines.
Sixteen analysts, sixteen different backgrounds, no single company's platform being cross-sold in every session. You're getting sixteen independent views of the same landscape, not one funnel dressed up as sixteen sessions.
The whole week is built around a specific sequence, not a hype cycle: get your financial foundation secure before you chase growth. That's a deliberate philosophy, not a marketing line.
What you'll discover
Every session is built around one question: what actually works for a
self-directed investor in this macroeconomic environment?
Why central banks are accumulating physical gold at record rates, and what it means for your portfolio allocation.
The case for Bitcoin beyond speculation — why nation-states and corporations are treating it as a reserve asset and what that signals.
How to take control of the banking function in your own life — and keep more of what you earn working for you.
Cash-flowing real assets, royalties, and building income streams that operate outside the traditional equity markets.
Energy is structurally underinvested and nuclear is returning. The investment thesis for the sector driving the next decade of critical infrastructure development.
Understand the structural forces reshaping global capital flows and how to determine which assets will preserve and grow wealth
in the decade ahead.
The structures and strategies that let you keep more of what your portfolio earns and offset active income — legally and by design. This is critical to financial freedom, but most investors overlook it.
The era of full-scale digital surveillance is upon us and the geopolitical landscape is shifting. Learn how to shore up your data, protect your privacy, and internationalize your assets where appropriate.
Featured speakers
These are independent thinkers that will present you with actionable information. No sponsored content. No mainstream platitudes.
Day one
The Great Structural Shift
Paul Rosenberg
Electrical engineer, cypherpunk, and author
The Fundamentals of Gold
Marc Tancer
Founder, Taggart Trading & South Florida Bullion
The Current State of Bitcoin
Wesley Schlemmer
President & Co-Founder, Bitcoin Bay Foundation
The Power of Infinite Banking
Hans Toohey
Founder, Remnant Finance
Day Two
Strategic Investing in the Current Climate
Tom Dyson
Investment Director, Bonner Private Research
Investing in a World of Inflation and Deflation
Nick Giambruno
Founder, The Financial Underground
The Race You Already Won
E.B. Tucker
Author, Why Gold? Why Now?
The Intelligence Revolution and Its Consequences
Dan Denning
Co-Author, Bonner Private Research
Day Three
Investing in Real Estate
Shane Thompson
Investment Property Consultant, Lineage
Investing in Mortgage Notes
Jerry Jones
Founder, Gold Pinnacle
Investing in Royalties
Lance Goldberg
General Partner, The Partners Fund
Investing in Alternate Assets
Mike Fruzzetti
General Partner, The Partners Fund
Day Four
Internationalization Strategies
Christian Nix
Founder, Expat Phyles
Privacy and Digital Security
Glenn & Eric Meder
Founders, Privacy Academy
Tax Optimization for Investors and Business Owners
Neal McSpadden
CEO, Tax Sherpa
The Blueprint: How It All Fits Together
Joe Withrow
Founder, The Phoenician League
Day five
Special Live Q&A Session - VIP Only
Your host
Founder, The Phoenician League
In 2009, Joe was a young banker inside Wells Fargo's loss mitigation department — one of thousands of people the industry hired to "modify" mortgages during the housing crash. He asked a simple underwriting question in a morning meeting: were they tracking loan-to-value on these modifications? The room went cold. He was told, in no uncertain terms, to keep his head down.
That was the moment he realized the system wasn't built to help homeowners — it was built to make a political problem disappear... and that set him on a different path. Joe spent the next decade inside the investment research industry, building himself into a senior analyst at one of the largest financial publishing networks in the world — until he watched that business get taken over, stripped for parts, and turned into a marketing engine at the expense of the very subscribers it was supposed to serve.
He'd seen this pattern twice now... so he built something different. The Phoenician League isn't a newsletter that hands you a new stock pick every month and leaves you to figure out the rest. It's a full asset-allocation framework — gold, Bitcoin, stocks, real estate, tax structure, and more — with an actual network of professionals to help members implement it.
Joe's work is built around a simple philosophy: financial security first, then financial independence. The summit will feature experts in various fields to show how both are within reach today.
Register now and receive daily session links during the event week. We'll also send out several bonus reports and templates to help you implement what we'll cover at the summit at no cost. Keep the insights for life.
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