What is something worth? Is the true value of anything “figureoutable”? Do the prices we pay reflect true value, and, if not, how does that happen?
Curtis Seltzer
I often get requests to not write about certain individuals with whom I share mixed marital arts. Therefore, I will not name my wife, Melissa, as the...
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The consensus thinking among economists is that the U.S. economy will grow about three percent in 2010.
In 26 years of living on the same speck of rural America, I’ve felt threatened once.
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