In the last sentence of the initial paragraph the author (Arthur Brooks) states that the two competing visions of America are not reconcilable. We must choose. The other point that caught my attention is his statement towards the end of the article about the purpose of free enterprise " human flourishing, not materialism". That indeed is a core belief that is not repeated often enough.
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- James Wilson
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- I am the Founder/CEO of J.E. Wilson Advisors, LLC in Columbia,S.C. We are the oldest S.C. based Fee-Only financial planning/wealth management firm in S.C. I am a veteran of over 30 years in the financial services field, first with a national stock brokerage firm and since 1982 my own advisory firm.
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- Simple Wealth, Inevitable Wealth - N. Murray
- The Black Swan - N. Taleb
- Fooled By Randomness - N. Taleb
- Enough - J. Bogle
- A Random Walk Down Wall Street - B. Malkiel
- Capital Ideas - P. Bernstein
- The Intelligent Asset Allocator - W. Bernstein
- The Ascent of Money - N. Ferguson
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