Mindful Investing: Better Investing Outcomes; Less Suffering This is the working title of my 2nd book. The idea is a simple one. There are lots of people who promise better investment outcomes. If you have paid attention for the last 3 months on this blog, you know what I think of those promises. I wanted

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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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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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The standard – Oxford English Dictionary – definition of risk is: Noun: A situation involving exposure to danger.       Verb: To expose (someone or something valued) to danger, harm, or loss. It is easy to see how both the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) transferred this

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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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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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Brett and I had a great discussion about the importance of “going inside” – finding out what truly matters to us as a first step on our path to financial wellbeing – then creating a plan and putting it into action. Thanks for having me on the show, Brett! ABOUT THE EPISODE Episode Details Here  ABOUT

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Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web We Desperately Need to Disrupt Our Approach to Retirement Saving We aren’t saving enough for the old version of retirement. The only way these new ideas work is if individuals expand their “earning” years and we save substantially more than we are saving currently. A Once Radical

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Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web Berkeley May Explore Making Reparations to Black Residents A friend of mine just wrote this article. It’s important that we keep talking and writing, but it is more important that we start doing. A Startup Is Sucking CO2 From the Sky and Making Diamonds. No More Mining?

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