Not Your Average Financial Podcast™

Not Your Average Financial Podcast™


Episode 220: Client Spotlight: Joe Rulli on Bread and Circuses and Banking

November 19, 2021

In this episode, we ask:


  • How about the times?
  • Have you heard of Bread and Circuses?
  • What about real, honest conversations?
  • Who is Joe Rulli?
  • What’s Joe story with money?
  • How is a co-op different from a condo?
  • What about co-office space?
  • What did Joe initially think about Bank on Yourself®?
  • What about volatility?
  • What about risk?
  • What about mutual life insurance companies?
  • What has Joe used his policy for?
  • What is Joe working on now?
  • What about monthly payments?
  • What about the mortgage?
  • What about Joe’s philosophy aligns with the philosophy of Bank on Yourself®?
  • What about interest?
  • What about growth?
  • What about freedom?
  • What about the history of banking and social unrest?
  • What are the benefits of a Bank on Yourself® type whole life insurance policy?
  • Have you read Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber?
  • What does Joe recommend?
  • What about trust?
  • What is prosperity?
  • What is wisdom?
  • Would you like to read Joe’s latest book, Bread and Circuses?

Joseph Anthony Rulli is a transplanted Hoosier, living in Chicago since 2006. A 1987 graduate of the University of Notre Dame (BA, History) and a 1992 graduate of St. Meinrad School of Theology (MDiv) he taught Social Studies, Religion, Philosophy, and History at the high school level. He began writing as a career upon his arrival to his second city and has had two short stories published, a stage play performed, an electronic tour book published online, and The Chicago Haymarket Affair (History Press/Arcadia Publishing, 2016) his first print book, followed by Chicago Socialism: The People’s History (History Press/Arcadia Publishing, 2019).


His first novel, the satire Bread & Circuses, is due for an October release through Chicago-based Shy City House. He has just contracted with History Press/Arcadia Publishing for a third history, tentatively called Chicago Marching: Protest, Authority, and Violence Since 1855.