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Why I Trust the S&P 500 By Joe Seta The primary reason so many stock investors underperform market averages is because they don’t understand a few…
It Is So Damn Easy to Feel Entitled It took me more than 30 years to learn it, but since I did (more than 30 years ago), I’ve been saying this to…
Decca Aitkenhead’s Smartphone Experiment The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt is one of the I-don’t-want-to-say-how-many book titles that are on my…
Two Brief Video Clips Impressive: Tenor Steps Up to the Piano in Italian Restaurant I’m convinced that these videos are planned, not accidental. But…
Oops! “In the Nov. 18 issue, you mentioned the government’s $37 trillion budget deficit. It is actually debt – and while you were in Japan, the number…
Dancing to… Steely Dan? No, they are not actually dancing to Steely Dan’s music. But Pete Roberts, who compiled these classic movie clips, makes it…
Is the American Dream still alive? Alex Green thinks it is, and I agree – mostly. Let me know what you think after reading his argument in today’s main…
Back Home and Reluctantly Catching Up on the News I usually don’t get jet-lagged on return flights to the US – but since we returned from Japan last…
“The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to…
Is the American Dream Over? According to a recent Gallup poll, a record-low 58% of US adults say they are “extremely” (41%) or “very” (17%) proud to…
Why Is It That So Few People Get Rich? Robert Frank, a columnist for The New York Times, has argued for some time that the key difference between the…
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