Aaron Miller, during an interview, estimates that if all market variables and church growth rates were entirely predictable, the Church could operate without additional tithing revenue for 16 years using Ensign Peak funds.

Date
May 19, 2023
Type
Interview
Source
Aaron Miller
LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

"'Mormon' Church: Taxes, Trust, Transparency: Deeper Context | E0008," Youtube, May 19, 2023, accessed September 29, 2023

Scribe/Publisher
YouTube
People
Aaron Miller
Audience
Internet Public
Transcription

Nielsen: Guessing at here but the but an endowment of roughly this size depending on the the percentages involved you know in terms of like what their portfolio grows at what the ongoing expenses of the church are and so forth one guess and this is just a little quick math I did in a notebook is that the Church could probably continue operating for about 16 years now that assumes a couple things that assumes again nobody's paying tithing, that assumes that, uh, that the asserts continue to grow at a predictable rate, and and it assumes that the Church stops growing in terms of its expenditures.

Timestamp: 20:35-21:20

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