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Monday, 09 February 2009 20:15 |
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By Paul Sullivan -- Commentary by Richard B. Wagner, CFP®
Published: February 6, 2009
During the boom years, money in America became many things it was never meant to be. It was status. It was identity. It was a magnet for love and friendship. What it rarely was is what it is: a means of exchange.
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Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:29 |
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What Life Asks of Us
By David Brooks - Commentary by Richard B. Wagner, CFP®
Published: January 26, 2009
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In this way of living, to borrow an old phrase, we are not defined by what we ask of life. We are defined by what life asks of us. As we go through life, we travel through institutions - first family and school, then the institutions of a profession or a craft.
Each of these institutions comes with certain rules and obligations that tell us how to do what we're supposed to do. Journalism imposes habits that help reporters keep a mental distance from those they cover. Scientists have obligations to the community of researchers. In the process of absorbing the rules of the institutions we inhabit, we become who we are.
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Written by Richard B. Wagner, JD, CFP®
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Tuesday, 21 October 2008 17:00 |
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By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Published: October 18, 2008
London
Who knew? Who knew that Iceland was just a hedge fund with glaciers? Who knew?
If you're looking for a single example of how the globalization of finance helped get us into this mess and how it will help get us out, you need look no further than British newspapers last week and their front-page articles about the number of British citizens, municipalities and universities - including Cambridge - that are in a tizzy today
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Thursday, 29 January 2009 06:05 |
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By Maureen Dowd - Commentary by Richard B. Wagner, CFP®
Published: January 27, 2009
"As President Obama spreads his New Testament balm over the capital, I'm longing for a bit of Old Testament wrath."
To read the rest of the article, please click here.
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Old Testament wrath. That's the ticket. Maureen Dowd expresses appropriate indignation at the continued cluelessness of the Wall St. crowd. Humorous, but the touched nerve is real.
Dick Wagner
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008 12:11 |
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The Old Ways of Thinking Can't Work
By Richard and Dottie Lamm
Our life experience is our great mapmaker. Etched in our minds--like road maps--is how we behave, treat our neighbors, make sense of our world. We know where we are going because we know where we have been.
For many of us, our mind maps have great economic expectations because we have been raised in a rich, compassionate and abundant country. We inherited a stock of natural wealth and proceeded to build the world's highest standard of living and generous social systems. Our maps were predictable and dependable and pointed every year to a better life.
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Written by Richard B. Wagner, JD, CFP®
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Wednesday, 24 September 2008 20:17 |
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by Dalton Conley, Op-Ed Contributor
FOR many American professionals, the Labor Day holiday yesterday probably wasn't as relaxing as they had hoped. They didn't go into the office, but they were still working. As much as they may truly have wanted to focus on time with their children, their spouses or their friends, they were unable to turn off their Blackberry's, their laptops and their work-oriented brains....
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