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The actual cost of hiring a financial advisor
You’re going to end up paying them 30-40% of your wealth over a 30 year period.
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Pricing the Housing Market in 2025
I don't think interest rates have as much to do with housing prices as housing velocity. The real answer is always supply & demand.
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How I sold 13,468 books by going the self-publishing route
The traditional book publishing industry is populated with dinosaurs.
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If you ran a company like a democracy, it would be bankrupt within the year.
If you ran Walmart like a democracy, every worker in each of the 10,784 stores would vote the company into a benefits-fueled hole. We don't run…
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Averages & medians don't really tell you what you need to know
Perhaps you’ve seen the statistic: 50% of marriages end in divorce.
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Being in Liberia during Ebola made me distrust the media
I don't trust anything you see in the media — anything. And I have real reason behind this.
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Why the SMMA model is fundamentally broken
This year, I have gotten more messages about one specific subject than anything else by far.
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Cowboy economics, contrarian politics, maverick travel, and anything else that could get me canceled.
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