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This is not a blog about personal finance, but given the events of the last few days I feel compelled to chime in and say a few words especially to our youngest readers, since they are the best positioned to ride out these complicated times and come out ahead.
I really believe that what […]

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While both sides of the aisle keep coming up with their own reasons why the $700 billion financial industry rescue package failed, there is one angle that nobody’s talking about: that one of the reasons the proposal failed is because of poor salesmanship.
First, the package proponents didn’t pay a lot of attention to […]

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Photo Credits: Stephen Witherden
Last Monday I traveled overseas and, while at the airport in Miami, I observed the behavior of two people working there. One was a food stand attendant and the other one a security agent for the TSA (Transportation Security Administration).
The food stand attendant was taking a personal phone call while serving […]

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