It's Friday here at Radical Personal Finance HQ.

Frequently, usually, that means a Q&A show, but today I am preempting a Q&A show due to lack of Internet connectivity.

So of course in thinking about other things that I would like to

share with you today I've got a whole long list of things that would be very timely. The stock market has been in gyration this week. Of course

that's always interesting to talk about. We've watched the continuance of our

certain long-term fiscal doom for the US government with the various

spending bills that have been passed this week so of course that would be fun to talk about

we continue to watch the situation in Venezuela where the International

Monetary Fund just recently predicted that this year will have 13,000% inflation. We've got a real life case study of a hyper-inflationary

situation, unimaginable suffering, and there are a lot of lessons that could be

learned there. I'm privy to some information of some things going on around the world that would knock your socks off if I shared them with you in terms of the physical challenges and economic challenges of many people.

But of course it's Friday and I don't want to send you

into the weekend with that. So in honor of the forthcoming Valentine's Day

holiday, which is a holiday that I detest, and I don't detest it only because I'm a

kermudgeon although I must admit I do have tendencies towards

kermudinary I detest it because it doesn't put a foundation that lasts and

love is a foundation that lasts.

So I thought, what better way to start the weekend

than by talking about love and money and giving.

And we begin with a story.

This story is called Ryan in Love.

It comes from chapter 3 of a book called Love Does by Bob Gough.

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