At the headwaters of the Mississippi River, you can literally dip your cup and take a drink of water; but, by the end of the same river - 2,350 miles later at the Gulf of Mexico, you probably wouldn't even want to eat a fish from it. Money works the same way. In the beginning it's pure. Yet, once it's flowed through government constructed retirement programs like 401(k)s and IRAs, taxes, fees and inflation; it becomes polluted. Here's Author-Mark Bertrang's latest video describing exactly how that happens. How do you purify your money?