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How Your Impatience is Used Against You

How Your Impatience is Used Against You

“ARE WE THERE YET?”

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog

Member Login Username: Password: “What? Aren’t you a millionaire yet? Don’t you have an international best seller yet? Well, step right up! Have I got the quick fix for you!” Or so it goes with most hype-sters pandering to your impatience and human laziness. We all...
On Independence Day, We’re more Interdependent than Ever

On Independence Day, We’re more Interdependent than Ever

AMERICAN PIE – CHINESE PAN

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog

As we approach the nation’s 236th year of independence from England and thereby Europe, we find ourselves glued to the financial news out of Europe like we were still part of it. And we are, more than ever. We worry about the economies of China and Russia as if...
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