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Straight Line of the Day: Other Financial Mistakes You Can Make: …

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At IMAO, we’re nothing if not helpful, so:

The Worst Financial Mistakes You Can Make
YourMoneyToday | February 20, 2023

Making Financial Mistakes is a natural part of life. Everyone does it, from young children to experienced adults. There’s no need to feel ashamed or embarrassed when you make a mistake. Instead, view it as an opportunity to learn and grow. After all, making mistakes is how you become better at everything you do.

-Not Saving For Retirement

-Borrowing Money From Your 401k

-Spending More Than You Earn

-Not Having Enough Insurance

-Investing In Risky Stocks Or Schemes

-Not Having An Emergency Fund

-Taking Out Loans You Can’t Afford To Repay

-Marrying The Wrong Person

-Avoid These Financial Mistakes At All Costs!

… and others, such as …

Mean, Median, Mode

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I’m certainly no math major. Or math student. Or math tutor. Sorry, Shelley.

A lot of people here seem to be respectably good at math, though. That’s probably you.

I can at least read, however, and once long ago I read a review of a book called “How To Lie With Statistics.”

It was a good summary. The book seemed like it would be jam-packed with numbers, so I didn’t buy it. But now I know that the three things in the title are all different, but the media will always — ALWAYS — pick the one that bolsters their case, and then disingenuously use the word “the average” in their article, purposely to confuse people.

I hate that as an English major!

And you should be offended at that even more than I am, if you’re a STEM major.

Oh, you probably already are offended, I just didn’t hear you because I was thinking things about Shelley.

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Another one is percentages. I know they also play games with “an X percent increase” versus “X percent of” something, because math people recognize the difference, but non-math people go into a coma.

To us, “You’ll get a 110% increase from your investment” sounds exactly like “You’ll get 110% of your investment. 110%!”

That’s why NFL players and English majors go broke.

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Thank God I went to a school that taught me there was a difference between “interest” and “compound interest,” or I would be broke.

Straight Line of the Day: The Upside To Having Plastic Shards in Your Brain: …

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Plastic Shards May Be Increasing In Human Brains
Dallas Expess | 2-10-25 | Jesse Oberoi

Researchers examined cognitively normal human brain samples gathered at autopsy in early 2024 and found that tiny plastic shards were higher than just eight years earlier. The cadaver brains contained up to 30 times more microplastics than kidneys and liver, roughly equivalent to the amount found in an entire plastic spoon.

Paul Simon: Concert for IMAO

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IMAO’s just a poor boy

Like a sandwich, only poorer

And it squanders all its condiments

Trying to think of funny puns to make from “condiments”. . . Oh, the horror.

All tries at jests

Show a man’s here when he wants to hear

How to best regard the breasts.

Mmm mm mmm mmm mm mm mm mmm mm mmm mm…

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Asking only Walrus’s wages

I came looking for a job

But I found no coffers —

Just a cosmos of the comments of certain attitudes.

I do declare!

There were times when I was so bemused

I took some Southern Comfort then and there

Mmm mm mmm mmm mm mm mm mmm mm mmm mm…

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Basil / Basil!

Basil / Basil! Basil / Basil!

Basil / Basil!Basil / Basil! Basil / Basil! Basil / Basil!

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