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Nobody Knows Anything, Kentucky Derby Edition | No, America Is Not Collapsing | How Good Are You at Detecting Bullshit? Take Our Test | The Key to a Good Parent-Child Relationship? Low Expectations. | How to Know When to Stop

A “Bear Market” is usually defined as the condition in which the price of a market falls – on a closing basis – 20% (or more) from recent highs amid widespread negative investor sentiment. Your answer to the question, “Are we in a Bear Market?” will depend on what “market” you are considering.

How To Make New Friends as An Adult—And Keep Them | The Mental Health Consequences of Staring at Yourself on Zoom All Day | Bitcoin Is Not an Investment — I’m Glad I Sold It | Why I Walk | 2022 World Changing Ideas Awards

The Flood of '72: Fifty Years Later Podcast | Being Present | Mary Oliver: “I Got Saved by the Beauty of The World” | The Last Time | The Current Thing

Brett Swarts of the Capital Gains Tax Solution Podcast interviews Jonathan DeYoe, author of Mindful Money on "Unlocking Your Money Mindfulness."

Mapped: Global Happiness Levels in 2022 | 2022 World Happiness Report | Putin and Xi Exposed the Great Illusion of Capitalism | Young Women Are Out-Earning Young Men in Several U.S. Cities | Five Things I Know About Investing

In the coming weeks, it is likely that "Recession" will take over the media conversation. Some combination of war, oil price spike, and inverted yield curve will come to be seen as natural predictors. Given current and potential headlines… what should we (goal-focused and planning-driven investors) be doing in our portfolios?

Can I Afford to Take a Sabbatical? | 9 Reasons Why Active Investing is Difficult | How To Get Better at Making Every Type of Decision | Tech Selloff Hints at Deep Cracks in Glamour Stocks | NIMBYism Reaches Its Apotheosis | How COVID Stole Our Time and How We Can Get it Back

Black History Month | Reasons to be Cheerful | Empathy Is a Muscle You Build | We’re Seeing a Virtual Repeat of the Dot-Com Crash | The Moral Calculations of a Billionaire

How to Perform Well Under Pressure | Derek Sivers: Books I’ve Read | Everyone Gets Rejected. Here’s What Our Readers Learned from Their Toughest Ones. | How Much Americans Make

Striking Findings From 2021 | Weepings and Gnashings of Teeth | This Is The #1 Ritual You Need To Do Every Day | A New Era for The American Worker | How Mo Salah Became the New King of Football

Give Your Money. Give Your Time. Don’t Tell Anyone. | Global Wealth Inequality: The Rise of Multimillionaires | The Desert Within | 100 Ways to Slightly Improve Your Life Without Really Trying | Cathie Wood’s Rollercoaster Performance Offers A Familiar Lesson About Volatility

The latest employment numbers were worse than expected… but that didn’t stop the aggregate unemployment numbers from falling below 4% for the first time since the beginning the pandemic. And the year just past, we saw almost 6.5 million jobs created - the most jobs ever created in a single year.

Insights from “The Matter with Things” | The Importance of Price Signals | The 10 Best Data Visualizations of 2021 | 99 Good News Stories You Probably Didn’t Hear About in 2021 | The Better Letter: Forecasting Follies

Why Paul Simon? | Dodging the Diderot Effect | Hugging the X-Axis | How to Become a Better Listener | Proof-of-Stake and Stablecoins: A Blockchain Centralization Dilemma | Why It’s Too Early to Get Excited About Web3 | A Wild, Emotional Year Has Changed Investing—Maybe Forever

Chris Larsen of the Next-Level Income Show interviews Jonathan DeYoe, author of Mindful Money.

Shark Bite Biz's David Strausser interviews Jonathan DeYoe, CPWA, AIF, owner and author of Mindful Money about why he doesn't speculate (buy lottery tickets or Bitcoin).

Patrick Francey of the Everyday Millionaire Podcast interviews Jonathan DeYoe of Mindful Money.

In his 2021 Half-Time Report Event, Jonathan K. DeYoe discusses the global markets and economies in light of COVID-19. He discusses the unprecedented events that have brought us to where we are today, and where we might be headed.

At the completion of the first ½ of 2021, the global economy and their associated equity markets have made significant progress towards “recovery.” As always, we divide our mid-year report into two parts. First, we recap our shared investment philosophy; second, I share our perspective on the current situation.