How Newlyweds Can Have Calm Honest Money Talks and Build Financial Trust
Your goal is consistency, not perfect spreadsheets. A short monthly money check-in keeps both of you oriented to the same reality, so decisions feel shared and surprises get handled early.
The New Yorker Piece on Belle Burden’s ‘Strangers’ Actually Bolsters Her Story
The book has no numbers and now Jessica Winter’s has gotten key documents with numbers. Rather than organizing them in columns like I might, she gives them to us in a narrative. Examining the whole narrative, I don’t see ten million bucks that can be used to buy James out of his share of the houses. So the numbers, such as they are, support Belle’s narrative.
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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.