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Personal finance links: making bad decisions

Abnormal Returns

(awealthofcommonsense.com) On the math of a 0% line of credit. bestinterest.blog) Why you should turn off auto-renew for your bank CDs. axios.com) Personal finance Loss aversion is real. awealthofcommonsense.com) The many ways that life for you is better than for John D. Rockefeller. wsj.com) How do estimated taxes work?

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Personal finance links: financial mistakes

Abnormal Returns

morningstar.com) On the math of early Social Security claiming. awealthofcommonsense.com) Piggy banks are passe. (humbledollar.com) An appreciation of Jonathan Clements' work. apexmoney.com) Retirement Lessons from a 'faux retirement' including 'Balance is hard!' bestinterest.blog) Cognitive decline is coming for us all.

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Personal finance links: paying for the life you want

Abnormal Returns

lifeblood.live) Banks Bank failures affect people who are not even customers of the bank. financialducksinarow.com) Retirement The math behind savings rates and retiring early. (peterlazaroff.com) George Grombacher talks with Jonathan Clements about his new book "My Money Journey."

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Dollars Are For Spending & Investing, Not Saving

The Big Picture

That comp gets deposited directly into my bank account, and that money is available for purchasing necessities (food, housing, clothing, medicine, transportation, etc.) Whether it’s a few decades or a century, the math works the same. That compensation is in a currency that is a widely accepted medium of exchange.

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Math Problems

The Better Letter

The maths are exactly the same. These sorts of math problems are the focus of this week’s TBL. Math Problems As this TBL goes live, just 16 games and one day of the NCAA Tournament are in the books, yet my bracket is a mess. We notice the unlikelihood of 100 in a row because of the pattern. Thanks for reading. quintillion.

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10 Weekend Reads

The Big Picture

KCP Group ). • Your Career Is Just One-Eighth of Your Life : Five pieces of career advice, shaped by economics, psychology, and a little bit of existential math. ( She is on various “Most Powerful Women in Finance lists” including American Banker, Crains Rising Stars in Banking & Finance 2020. The Atlantic ). •

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10 Friday AM Reads

The Big Picture

Wall Street Journal ) • From Math Camp to Handcuffs: FTX’s Downfall Was an Arc of Brotherhood and Betrayal : Gary Wang and Sam Bankman-Fried are offering dueling accounts of the FTX fiasco and of who’s ultimately to blame. Slate ) • Guess Who Loses After Florida and Texas Bar ESG Banks? Here’s your investing playbook.

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