Gallup’s 2024 Global Emotions Report | How To Think About Group Differences | No Hard Feelings | Intellectual Courage as the Scarcest Resource | All in One Place

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Gallup’s 2024 Global Emotions Report | How To Think About Group Differences | No Hard Feelings | Intellectual Courage as the Scarcest Resource | All in One Place

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Business Ethics | The “Self-Diagnosed” Generation | How Not to Be Fooled By Viral Charts | What Happened to Patriotism in America? | Record S&P 500 Concentration – Chart of the Day (6/24/24)

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Investing can often feel like navigating a vast, unpredictable ocean. Markets rise and fall, news headlines shift sentiment, and even seasoned investors can find themselves questioning their decisions. In such a turbulent environment, finding a guiding principle can be invaluable. There was a book I read to my kids when they were young, Zen Shorts by Jon

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The Power of Awareness: An Interview with Rock Climber Francis Sanzaro | Lazy Work, Good Work | 5 Critical Skills They Didn’t Teach You in College | The Summer Edit: Best Summer Cocktails for 2024 | Private Equity May Not Be the Diversifier We Think (Due to Volatility Laundering), But Private Credit Could Be

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The Natural Selection of Bad Vibes (Part 1) | Why We Get Bored of the Best Things in Life—and How to Fight It | How Many of Our “Facts” About Society, Health, and the Economy Are Fake? | 91 Kitchen Tricks and Tips From Our Test Kitchen | What Roth Conversions Are Likely (And Unlikely) To Achieve

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If you spend a little time on Mindful Money, you might get the sense that I recommend against hiring a financial advisor. And, while it is true in many cases, such as: It isn’t always true. The financial press covers the daily gyrations of economies, markets, and individual investments in a way that makes the

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An Open Letter to Vanguard CEO, Salim Ramji | Steady 54% of Americans Identify as Middle Class | Joe Biden and the Inversion of Reality | Selling Plasma and Personal Finances | Lowering Our Expectations

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I talk a lot about the idea that stock prices follow earnings. This is what that looks like over 30 years: At the same time, whenever the stock market is bouncing around near all-time highs (as it is today), I start to get questions about the market getting “too high.” So… are today’s stock prices

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