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Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. Updated at 10:27 p.m. ET on August 21, 2025 One of the biggest gripes I have about my academic ...

As the former CEO of a company where I spent many years early in my career, Bernie was someone I had the privilege of working with closely. Even after his retirement, we kept in touch for 17 years, ...

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Starting a business has been one of the most exciting and fulfilling chapters of my life — but it’s also been unpredictable, humbling and often much harder than it looks from the outside. Here are a ...

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Ramit Sethi’s I Will Teach You to Be Rich doesn’t sound like most money books and that’s exactly why it works. There’s no ...

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