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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: Good financial advice to your children: Give your money away

Remember when your parents told you to be sensible with your money? Apparently that’s not the most important money advice we should be giving to our kids. Instead, we should be teaching them to give …

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GOOD READ: Are golden days of tech industry behind us?

Business Insider: Some of the iconic perks offered to tech employees in Silicon Valley have dried up as the world continues working from home, and the trend has left some workers re-evaluating how they measure job …

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GOOD READS: 20 years later: Remembering 9/11

COMPILED BY BUSINESS RECORD STAFF: The 20-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. is Saturday.  As we remember the lives lost and the toll on our country and world, we compiled a list…
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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: The case for a robust attack on the tax gap

Some individuals among America’s super-wealthy are serious tax scofflaws, a high-ranking Treasury Department official said this week. As MarketWatch reported, a U.S. Treasury article makes the case for increased funding for the Internal Revenue Service to step …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: A look at the family that owns a share of the Bond franchise

Like James Bond movies? Then you’ll love a piece by The Hustle’s Mark Dent who writes about the family who secured a cut of the Bond movie rights in 1961 and have since raked in hundreds of …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: Each COVID-19 surge poses a risk for health care workers: PTSD

Due to continued surges of COVID-19 across the U.S. the mental health impact on health care workers has in some cases escalated to diagnoses of PTSD, Reuters reports. Hospital employees, including VA hospital ICU nurse Chris …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: Wall Street Journal: Ending unemployment benefits early had no effect on job growth

States that ended enhanced federal unemployment benefits early have so far seen about the same job growth as states that continued offering the pandemic-related extra aid, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis and economists. However, economists …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: Is more stockpiling on the horizon?

A week or so ago, I read that toys may be in short supply this coming holiday season. Now the Wall Street Journal reports that toilet paper and paper towels are being snatched up by American consumers. Again. The …

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NOTEBOOK: Chase’s first Iowa branch part of bank’s new 48-state retail footprint

Many people, myself included, likely assume that at least a few of the major national banks must have branches in all 50 states, or at least in all of the contiguous 48 states. Turns out …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: Study: Ending an eviction moratorium increases COVID-19 hazard

Amid evacuations due to Hurricane Ida and western wildfires, the end of the eviction moratorium will also soon force some Americans out of their homes. Goldman Sachs analysts estimated that as many as 750,000 households …