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I went to public schools for my entire life and my husband had a completely private education and we had the following discussion: are private schools worth the tens of thousan
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J.D. over at Get Rich Slowly asked me for a guest post on personal finance. What it turned out I wanted to talk about next, though, was productivity--and in particular, my evolvin
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It seems like everyday the folks in Washington are rolling out a new plan to fix our economy. The Federal Reserve is running out of room to cut their federal funds rate, so now th
Given the continually fragile state of the economy and enormous budget deficits, should the tax cuts be extended or should they be permitted to expire?
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I went to public schools for my entire life and my husband had a completely private education and we had the following discussion: are private schools worth the tens of thousan
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Guest post at Get Rich Slowly
J.D. over at Get Rich Slowly asked me for a guest post on personal finance. What it turned out I wanted to talk about next, though, was productivity--and in particular, my evolvin
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It seems like everyday the folks in Washington are rolling out a new plan to fix our economy. The Federal Reserve is running out of room to cut their federal funds rate, so now th
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