March 2018
11 articles published this month.
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From My Work-in-Progress Basket
One Thing & Another — March 31, 2018
Word for the Wise Preternatural (prih-tur-NATCH-uh-rul) – existing outside of nature; extraordinary. Example from George Will: “Beyond his preternatural affability, there is some acid and some steel.”…
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Miscellaneous Essays
The Worst Thing I Ever Said to Laura
For years, Laura came to our seminars, sitting in the front row, taking notes and looking earnest. And at least once during each of those seminars, she’d pigeonhole me to tell me something she didn’tlike about…
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Miscellaneous Essays
The Virtue of Laziness
Speed Up Your Career by Indulging Your Lazy Gene The unpaid bills are stacked next to the unwashed dishes. You’ve been short about $1,200 per month since the divorce. You need something to fill that…
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Miscellaneous Essays
Wealth Building for Beginners (Even if You Are Not Young Anymore) — March 26, 2018
4.- “The Most Powerful Force in the Universe” Legend has it that Albert Einstein was once asked what he considered the most powerful force in the universe. He answered, “Compound interest!” It’s commonly…
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One Thing & Another — March 24, 2018
Word for the Wise Claque (KLAK) – a group hired to applaud; a group of sycophants. Example as used by Charles P. Pierce in an Esquire article titled “Nobody Knows How to Play This Game Anymore”: “The bill…
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Miscellaneous Essays
Wealth Building for Beginners (Even if You Are Not Young Anymore) — March 19, 2018
3.-Your Invitation to the “$150,000 Club” In the last installment https://www.markford.net/wealth-building-for-beginners-even-if-you-are-not-young-anymore-2 of this series, I told you how I got started on my…
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One Thing & Another — March 17, 2018
Word for the Wise Pinguid (PING-wid) – fat and oily. Here’s a lovely sentence from The Bunsby Papers by John Brougham that includes it alliteratively: “Peter was pinguid, plump, and plethoric – she was thin to…
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Miscellaneous Essays
What I’m Doing With My Money Now and for the Rest of 2018
Consult an expert, if you like experts. Talk to your broker. Read your broker’s “research” recommendations. But don’t ask me what you should be doing with your money right now. I have no qualifications as a…
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One Thing & Another — March 10, 2018
Word for the Wise Popinjay (POP-in-jay) – a strutting, supercilious person. Example from Ernest Hemingway: “If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and…
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Miscellaneous Essays
How to Protect Yourself From the Next Global Economic Collapse
I wrote the following essay a while ago. It was recently published in Laissez Faire Letter https://lfb.org and I thought I’d reprint it here because it’s relevant… By Mark Morgan Ford Making good investment…
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One Thing & Another — March 3, 2018
Word for the Wise Retrodict (ret-roh-DIKT) – to use present information to explain or reinterpret or revise knowledge of the past. Example from Jamie Whyte in The Wall Street Journal: “Many are impressed by…
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