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Radical Personal Finance

Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP

Finance, Retirement, Insurance, Business, Money, Education, Self-improvement, Financial, Independence, Growth, Advice, Investing, Family, Personal, Radical, Christian, Faith

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🗓️ 5 August 2014

⏱️ 92 minutes

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On Monday’s shows I bring you a variety show with news articles that have stood out to me from this past week. Today, we cover a lot of ground! “A Tax Plan That Economists Love (And Politicians Hate)” from NPR’s Morning Edition Episode 387 of Planet Money: The No-Brainer Economic Platform One out of three […]

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Pepsi Max. Christmas is great, but there's loads of ways to make it better.
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0:29.0	Radical Personal Finance episode 34. Welcome to the Radical Personal Finance Podcast for today, Monday August 4, 2000.
0:49.0	Welcome to the Radical Personal Finance Podcast for today, Monday, August 4, 2014.
0:56.4	Today's show is a Monday variety show,
0:59.2	a roundup of this week's news articles,
1:01.6	and we're going to especially focus on the interplay between economics,
1:07.0	government, reality, and spin. in.
1:13.0	Today's episode is a special late night edition of the Radical Personal Finance
1:24.8	podcast. I don't like to do late night editions but that's how today turned
1:29.9	out so it's 1025 as I hit the record button and hopefully we'll get this out before the
1:34.6	midnight breaks. So far I haven't ever missed publishing a show and I don't plan to
1:39.6	miss publishing a show although I'm sure in the future I'll take some breaks but I'd like to have the show here for you five days a week at least and so I don't plan to to miss shows and today was just busy busy busy and conducted an interview earlier this afternoon
1:54.7	and just wasn't able to get to it until 1025 at night but we're going to get it rocked out and get it out to you so I hope you enjoy.
2:00.5	So Monday's show today is going to be a bunch of articles that I have found and some
2:06.1	topics that I have found interesting and basically my goal every day is to bring
2:10.6	something to you that you will find thought-provoking and interesting
2:14.4	and which will help you to learn something. I love to learn something new every
2:17.6	day and so I figure if you're listening to the show you do as well. So we're going
2:21.5	to start however not with an article or not with a news story from this last week.
2:26.7	We're going to start with something that's a little bit older. We're actually going to begin here with a Planet Money report from NPR, and this was released
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