By Rick Kahler, originally published at Financial Awakenings. For three years, clients have been asking me when the economy will get back to normal. I have started answering that this current flat economy may be the newest redefinition of normal, one of many I’ve seen in 40-plus years of writing about money. The post Living […]
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