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Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web Not Financial Advice. This is a great piece from Young Money: the best personal finance blog you’ve never heard of. Tell your kids to read this blog. Compounded Luck Advantages compound. Disadvantages compound. A society can be judged on how it handles unearned advantages. Mentality The job

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Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web How a Massive Refinery Shortage is Contributing to High Gas Prices Would you invest in a horse & buggy company after you saw the first automobile come off the line? High gas prices are a feature of the transition to renewable energy. The First Global Credit Crisis

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Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web Optimism When All Else Fails “I think the real and tangible thing we can do is not give up.” Beach Currents Don’t Have to Be This Deadly Last year, my brother was one of the hundreds of people who drowned after getting caught in the rip current.

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Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web One-Third of Americans Making $250,000 Live Paycheck-to-Paycheck: Survey My mom might say, “Cry me a river.” We need an income, and that income should grow throughout our lives. But financial success has never been just about what we earn. Oliver Burkeman’s Last Column: The Eight Secrets to

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