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How to Invest and Spend for Happiness, Health, and Wealth

Order this book to read about real success: how to spend for happiness, how to invest effectively, how to boost life satisfaction and enhance longevity. This might be the world's wisest personal finance book.

Why Your Investment Portfolio Is Like A Bar of Soap

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Plenty of investors start out well. They build a diversified portfolio of low-cost index funds. But then an analyst on Bloomberg says bonds are going to…

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There’s no longer an argument that index funds beat actively managed funds. But there remains a battle between two types of index funds.  DFA (Dimensional…

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