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Every Projection Is a Set of Assumptions: How to Read One
How to judge a financial projection from a calculator, a bank, a professional or any other tool: separate the known from the assumed, find the load-bearing assumptions, and ask what would change the answer.
Shelf: Clarity
3 min read
Helping Your Children Financially: What to Settle Before Choosing an Account
Before choosing a 529, a custodial account or a Roth IRA for a child, settle the questions that decide which one fits: whose money it becomes, who controls it, how flexible it is, and what it does to your own security.
Shelf: Legacy
5 min read
Reversible or Not: How Much Analysis Does a Financial Decision Deserve?
A practical way to tell which financial decisions deserve slow, careful analysis and which can be made quickly: reversibility, consequence, deadline, uncertainty and dependence.
Shelf: Decisions
4 min read