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Household Net Worth Has Never Been This Tied to the Stock Ma...
Some things I’m thinking about regarding the housing market:
How affordable is housing for the majority of Americans? The 50/30/20 rule says that you should spend roughly 50% of your income on necessities (housing, transportation, healthcare, etc.), 30% of your income on wants (dining out, travel, entertainment, etc.) and 20% of your income on savings or paying off debt.
Within the 50% necessity bucket, a good rul...
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I’m reading two books about different eras right now that have some themes we’re dealing with in today’s world.
The Breaks of the Game by David Halberstam is widely regarded as one of the best sports books ever written.1
Halberstam chronicled the Portland Trailblazers in the 1979-80 NBA season.
People talk about how money and greed have infested professional sports now but it was interesting to hear tha...
Some people say this country has never been more polarized.
We can’t agree on anything anymore. Everything is a partisan issue.
Maybe that’s true but the one thing that can bring us all together is our new national pastime — complaining. We love to complain about pretty much everything.
Travel is something everyone loves to complain about.
I love Italy but it’s just soooo overcrowded now in the sum...