You can afford anything but not everything.

Every choice that you make is a trade-off against something else and that doesn't just

apply to your money.

That applies to your time, your focus, your energy, your attention, any limited resource

that you need to manage.

Saying yes to something implicitly carries opportunity costs and that opens up two questions.

First, what do you value and second, how do you align your decisions around your values?

Answering those two questions is a lifetime practice and that's what this podcast is

here to explore and facilitate.

My name is Paula Pant, I am the host of the Affordable Care Podcast and today the nationally

syndicated financial columnist and veteran financial journalist Chuck Jaffee joins us

to talk about how the world of money has changed over the last 40 years.

Chuck Jaffee has been a financial journalist since 1984.

He spent six years starting in 1988 as the business editor of a newspaper in Allentown,

Pennsylvania and then for the next nine years he became the personal finance and mutual

funds columnist for the Boston Globe.

While working at the Boston Globe, he became a nationally syndicated financial columnist

and for 27 years starting in 1995, he has been a nationally syndicated columnist whose

articles about personal finance and mutual funds have run in newspapers across the country.

This happened concurrently while he was writing finance columns for the Boston Globe,

as well as later starting in 2003 when he became the senior columnist at MarketWatch, a position

that he held for the next 14 years, until 2017.

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