Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web Nobody Knows Anything, Kentucky Derby Edition The best thing I read this week: On Overconfidence. No, America Is Not Collapsing The fall of America is not on the horizon. Our demise is being over-stated. How Good Are You at Detecting Bullshit? Take Our Test Because we are

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Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web Why American Teens Are So Sad I worry a lot (too much?) about my kids’ state of mind… for ALL of these reasons. Employee Performance Vs. Trust What matters most to employers – Trust or Performance – often depends on the size of the business. Asset Allocation

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Last week we introduced two different definitions of risk. Loss of principal Uncertainty about lifetime consumption This week I want to place those definitions into the context of a lifetime financial plan to help with the understanding that, while investment bankers and analysts define the risk of a particular investment in terms of the loss

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Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web Why The Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid I didn’t share this last week because I had not read the whole thing. Now that I’ve read it – twice – I think it is the most important thing we can read. It is

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Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web The Pyramid of Leisure For context, I’ve been asking anyone that would answer what they “do” in retirement or with their excess time and no one seems to be very happy with how they spend their leisure. If you wonder the same thing, this might help. This

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We have spent the last three weeks highlighting the three measurable and controllable percentages that are absolutely critical to your long-term financial plan, especially your retirement-income success. They are (with links): Savings Rate: The percentage of your income you save Equity Allocation: The percentage of your portfolio you place in equities Withdrawal Rate: The percentage

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Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web The Flood of ’72: Fifty Years Later Podcast Trauma begets recollections of trauma. When I was 7 months old, a flood destroyed much of my hometown, Rapid City, SD, killing 238 people. My dad, working for the local power company, discovered many bodies. The stories started coming

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The last couple weeks we’ve been highlighting the only three percentages that matter. These are the three measurable and controllable percentages that are absolutely critical to your long-term financial plan, especially your retirement-income success: Savings Rate: The percentage of your income you save Equity Allocation: The percentage of your portfolio you place in equities Withdrawal

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From last week’s Mindful Money Weekly, you remember that there are three measurable and controllable percentages that are absolutely critical to your long-term investment success. These are the three financial levers each of us can pull to alter our long-term financial outcomes for better or worse: Savings Rate: The percentage of your income you save.

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