The economic landscape.

How is it that we have a financial culture where a home made out of wood and sheet rock costs 200,000 to 500,000 dollars and the home only lasts 30-90 years? In most condos, you can hear your neighbor through the walls. How is it that our food... 
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Why can’t I figure it out?

This is the age of the highly distracted mind. We literally encounter thousands (3,000 from the last article I read) of new advertisements that were designed to grab our attention each day. But there is an even more fundamental difficulty in... 
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Character assassination.

Why can’t I move forward? I can see now that one of the reasons we’re stuck in our financial mess is because of how we interpret the meaning of that mess. In other words, when we see the mess, we almost immediately turn towards character... 
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MoneyGab Thoughtful Reflections: the economic collapse.

I think the cause of the economic collapse wasn’t the banks with the sub-prime lending. It was the consumer. The masses leveraged their income to purchase items that were unbelievably expensive in comparison to their income. And those... 
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MoneyGab Thoughtful Reflections: politics

Politics is the struggle for priority. In our lives, we often find ourselves going into multiple directions at once. Does it have to be that way? I’ve found that life, or a lot of life, is about meeting the priorities of different forces.... 
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The Dawn of Civilization: financial records.

Not writing down your financial records, no matter how small, is similar to meeting tribes that do not read or write. Many human tribes have existed for thousands of years without a written history. No one knows their past, except for the oral... 
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MoneyGab Thoughtful Reflections: strategies in the game.

Assuming that one’s problem is another’s solution, it is interesting to see how the dynamics of certain situations play out. I’m very interested in game theory. Game theory attempts to describe the behavior of individuals in... 
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MoneyGab Thoughtful Reflections: permanent improvements.

Of all the work that we do, and of all the spending that we do, what permanent improvements do we make? When I look at it, so much of our time and energy is diverted to things that have little or no significance. It’s a lot of circular... 
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