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Do You Have What It Takes To Be Independently Wealthy?
Money is just the start of it, perhaps not even the hardest part
Economics
These posts cover financial and economic topics, including taxes, financing, macro- and micro-economics
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Stakeholder Capitalism: the Myth, the Misunderstanding, and a Lie
Delivering shareholder value is entirely consistent with taking a long-term view. And short-term profits have nothing to do with it
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A Truly Reliable Way To Increase Your Earnings
Successfully educating yourself will more reliably improve your lifelong earnings than anything else you do
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How Does Your Wealth Stack Up on a Global Scale?
What does it take to be in the top half of adults? The top 1%? I hope the answers make you feel better about yourself
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Would You Sell Your Time for 500x Less Than You Could Earn?
Although life is about so much more than making money, looking at this graph gave me pause
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How Not To Get Rich (Newsletter 009)
Alas, for many their salary is no indication of their likelihood to become wealthy
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Reports of Society's Collapse Are Premature (and I Can Prove It)
Greetings friends! Over the weekend, I went on a short trip to Hendersonville, North Carolina, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, about an hour from where I live in South Carolina. My wife and I were visiting a venue in Flat Rock, a converted 150-year-old grist
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President Biden May Have the Last Laugh
Ironically, it was the Supreme Court that delivered him this opportunity. Mr. Biden will be just the first President to exploit it
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Failure Hidden in Plain Sight
Women are well-represented in the law, or so it seems. Digging deeper reveals some shocking gaps
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Speeding Out of Control –Time to Pull the Brake?
Or do we need to crash first to realize the error of our free-spending ways? What if there was a better way?
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The Year Your College Degree Became Worthless
If we stop testing and grading students, what message do we send?
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Failing the Marshmallow Test, Over and Over
If we continue to spend more than we earn, eventually we will find that we need to sell assets to generate cash flow. Trouble awaits the unwary spender