If you run a personal finance blog…somewhere it goes into areas which look peripheral to most people…like: spending financial behaviour economics good food good health why? because good food and good health are good economics. Good economics is sensible personal finance. So you will find occassional posts on food, exercise, etc…here is a shocking news..perhaps […]

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assuming this is a personal finance site (which predominantly it still is)…..and the fact that many of us know that there is a huge connection between health and wealth….and there is a huge connection between sensible living and good health…and there is a huge connection between healthy thought, healthy actions, healthy food and good health….. […]

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Sorry for the language but let us look at this family in the USA. It could well be India after a few years, not commenting on it though. Grandfather is aged about 95 had the following: 1. A great job (he was a supervisor in Gen Motors and retired in 1980), 2. Has an indexed […]

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For those who do not know I have not changed my broker and doctor for the past 33 years – and it has helped. My doctor is a homeopath who believes in detailed questioning, some little diagnostics and almost zero medicines. He has kept me off medicines for the past almost 30 odd years, and […]

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Iceland is a remarkable success story – by going against the advise of some ‘smart’ bankers like the American bankers. There is a brilliant article in Bloomberg (so those who have access to Bloomberg please read ‘Iceland Resurfaces, by Yalman Onaran) -it is there in the printed version also with a brilliant photograph by Tom […]

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Why do people become proud? Or what are the sources of pride? Let us enumerate the sources from where man / woman get their pride: Youth pride: ‘I am young’ is what Shankaracharya called ‘yovana garvam’. It is there is man right through childhood to old age! Money: “I am rich’ is also a very […]

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Recently Mr. Sunil M Gavaskar celebrated his 60th birthday. Nothing great about it. His parents were around to bless him – this is a new phenomenon. Many people who are celebrating their 60th birthday are celebrating it with their parents around them. Many of these parents are pushing 80 – some are close to 90 […]

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