When you have a variety of investment strategies available to you, such as pre-tax or post-tax, how should you go about prioritizing them?

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Friend of the pod Michael Lewis is back with us this weekend to talk about his recently released book, The Premonition: A Pandemic Story.

The characters you will meet are as fascinating as they are unexpected. 

A thirteen-year-old girl’s science project on transmission of an airborne pathogen develops into a very grown-up model of disease control. A local public-health officer uses her worm’s-eye view to see what the CDC misses, and reveals great truths about American society. A secret team of dissenting doctors, nicknamed the Wolverines, has everything necessary to fight the pandemic: brilliant backgrounds, world-class labs, prior experience with the pandemic scares of bird flu and swine flu, everything, that is, except official permission to implement their work.

Michael Lewis is not shy about calling these people heroes for their refusal to follow directives that they know to be based on misinformation and bad science. 

Even the internet, as crucial as it is to their exchange of ideas, poses a risk to them. They never know for sure who else might be listening in.

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Friend of the pod Michael Lewis is back with us this weekend to talk about his recently released book, The Premonition: A Pandemic Story.

The characters you will meet are as fascinating as they are unexpected. 

A thirteen-year-old girl’s science project on transmission of an airborne pathogen develops into a very grown-up model of disease control. A local public-health officer uses her worm’s-eye view to see what the CDC misses, and reveals great truths about American society. A secret team of dissenting doctors, nicknamed the Wolverines, has everything necessary to fight the pandemic: brilliant backgrounds, world-class labs, prior experience with the pandemic scares of bird flu and swine flu, everything, that is, except official permission to implement their work.

Michael Lewis is not shy about calling these people heroes for their refusal to follow directives that they know to be based on misinformation and bad science. 

Even the internet, as crucial as it is to their exchange of ideas, poses a risk to them. They never know for sure who else might be listening in.

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"Jill on Money" theme music is by Joel Goodman, www.joelgoodman.com.

Whether it's a settlement or an inheritance, there's no easy answer when it comes to handling a lump sum of money.

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Is it too risky to be in your early 50s and 100% invested in stocks? For me, yes, for you, maybe not, so let's dive in a bit deeper and discuss it.

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Yes, the housing market is beyond stupid right now, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't get in on the action. That said, you want to make sure you're doing it from a position of strength, not weakness.

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Whether you make a lot of money or a little, no one is immune when it comes to racking up significant credit card debt. And if you're not tracking your money, it's much harder to right the ship.

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My heart is set on retiring later this year, and working another year or two isn't an option, so am I okay to pull the trigger and call it quits?

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Two new programs aim to give consumers greater access to credit cards and mortgage refinancing. On this episode I explain how they work and who would benefit most. Plus Mark and I talk credit, automatic payments, and reselling handbags on the web.

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Yours truly on Face the Nation: There is "red-hot consumer demand" and a bottleneck of supply in certain areas, leading to the "biggest price increases in 30 years."

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We pile on “to-dos” but don’t consider “stop-doings”. We create incentives for good behavior, but don’t get rid of obstacles to it. We collect new-and-improved ideas, but don’t prune the outdated ones. Every day, across challenges big and small, we neglect a basic way to make things better: We don’t subtract.

Leidy Klotz, our guest this weekend and author of the recently released book, Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less, has plenty of research that shows why. 

Whether we’re building Lego models or cities, grilled-cheese sandwiches or strategic plans, our minds tend to add before taking away. Even when we do think of it, subtraction can be harder to pull off because an array of biological, cultural, and economic forces push us toward more. 

But we have a choice, our blind spot need not go on taking its toll on our cities, our institutions, and our minds. By diagnosing our neglect of subtraction, we can treat it.

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We pile on “to-dos” but don’t consider “stop-doings”. We create incentives for good behavior, but don’t get rid of obstacles to it. We collect new-and-improved ideas, but don’t prune the outdated ones. Every day, across challenges big and small, we neglect a basic way to make things better: We don’t subtract.

Leidy Klotz, our guest this weekend and author of the recently released book, Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less, has plenty of research that shows why. 

Whether we’re building Lego models or cities, grilled-cheese sandwiches or strategic plans, our minds tend to add before taking away. Even when we do think of it, subtraction can be harder to pull off because an array of biological, cultural, and economic forces push us toward more. 

But we have a choice, our blind spot need not go on taking its toll on our cities, our institutions, and our minds. By diagnosing our neglect of subtraction, we can treat it.

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"Jill on Money" theme music is by Joel Goodman, www.joelgoodman.com.

If you're thinking about firing your advisor and going it alone, there's definitely a few things to consider before making the change.

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After paying off $150,000 in student loans you suddenly find yourself with some serious extra cash flow. What should you do with it? Buy a house for yourself or perhaps an investment property? Or just invest it?

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You're only in your 20s and doing everything you should be doing to prepare for retirement, yet you find yourself constantly worried about money. What's the solution?

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John in California is hoping to call it quits and take to the skies. Is he at a point in his financial life where he can make his dream a reality?

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Wife wants to call it quits at 40 and do something else, hubby thinks it's a bad idea. Who's right and who's wrong? Aunt Jill is here to play the role of mediator.

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Saving for retirement is a lot like an annual checkup with your doctor, in that it's something you want to do once a year, and you certainly don't want to wait until it's too late.

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What would cause somebody to be sitting on what you might think is too much cash? More times than not, it has to do with a traumatic experience.

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Part of financial planning is dealing with all sorts of curve balls that might come your way, and that includes dealing with a transition in your professional life.

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