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In addition to the psychological literature there is some information about the psychology of money
available in the financial literature. Close to the beginning of her best selling book, The 9 Steps To
Financial Freedom, financial planner Suze Orman states ? most of my clients biggest problems in life
today - even those that appear on the surface not to be money related - are connected with their early
formative experiences with money.? She recommends to her readers, as the first step toward financial
freedom, a psychological exercise; recalling their earliest memories about money and the painful feelings
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| Dolly Parton |
I say, 'Yeah, Taylor Swift.' I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she's making all the right moves. She's got a good head on her shoulders. She's surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she's living and standing by that. |
| Floyd Abrams |
I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same. |
| Darell Hammond |
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| Ernest Gaines |
I was raised by a lady that was crippled all her life but she did everything for me and she raised me. She washed our clothes, cooked our food, she did everything for us. I don't think I ever heard her complain a day in her life. She taught me responsibility towards my brother and sisters and the community. |
| Julian Fellowes |
The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: 'A funny little man asked me to marry him.' |
| Homaro Cantu |
I was just taught very early that if I didn't solve problems, I was headed for a very dark path. Problems were everywhere. Now, even if there are no problems, I look for problems. I'm like, 'You know what? I don't like the way this spoon works. I want to design a new spoon.' |
| Keiko Agena |
The women I admire most in this business are Susan Sarandon, Bette Midler and Winona Ryder. Susan Sarandon because she's, well, Susan Sarandon. Winona because she's never compromised herself by showing her body in any of her love scenes, and Bette Midler because she has such a varied life. Her family, her marriage and her career are all priorities. |
| Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. |
If you really want to know someone, you must see their emotions off guard. That's how I know Joan Crawford could never have been cruel to her children. I really knew her, when she was still Billie, as she liked to be called in the early days. In a relationship as close as ours, I had the chance to see her in every kind of personal situation. |
| Maria Bamford |
My mom is very structured. She gets up, she does her prayers, and she eats her oatmeal with blueberries and Greek yogurt, and she has her prayer list, and she doesn't worry too much about things. |
| Robert Darnton |
People sometimes announce that we have entered 'the information age' as if information did not exist in other times. I think that every age was an age of information, each in its own way and according to the available media. |
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Another psychological approach to understanding people?s involvement with money was offered in
a financial magazine. This article (Sullivan, 1994) presented a classification of money personalities based
on a survey of 2,000 people?s ?inner financial life.? It divided people into seven personality
classifications as follows: 1) Hunters, who are characterized by an aggressive attitude toward the making
spending and investing of money and who tend to have unsettled personal lives and a higher than average
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The Taboo Against Dealing With Money Issues
Why is it that the literature regarding the psychological meaning of money is so scant? As sated
previously, there is a taboo regarding the subject of money in our society, to which psychotherapists are
not immune. We Americans may complain about taxes, discuss the prospects of Social Security and brag
about the great bargains we found or the killings we made in the stock market, but we seldom discuss
our incomes, our indebtedness or, more general...
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The Consequences of the Money Taboo
The Money taboo is a serious psychological problem because, though we do not talk freely about
money, it is of major concern to almost everybody in America. This taboo keeps people from finding
money?s proper place in their lives. It keeps them from balancing their financial needs with other needs;
such as love, family, self expression, self esteem, meaningful work and physical or emotional health. If
people can recognize and overcome their irrational or ...
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Spot the bullshit:
"On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Education announced its new plan to help tackle debt for those who borrowed federal money to pay for student loans.
In a new streamlining process, borrowers who have approved claims that confirm their college or institution defrauded them or engaged in financial misconduct will be able to apply for full relief.
Officials estimate that t...
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Despite common wisdom to the effect that money can?t buy happiness it is certain that many people
believe that enough money could make them happier than they are. Many people squander huge amounts
of time and energy, thinking about and trying to acquire money because of this belief. Even when they
are reasonably well off, people often make increasing acquisition and control of money a higher priority
than either self actualization or cultivation of relationships - leading to many of the personal and
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Hebei, a Northern Chinese Province, Unveils an App That Triggers a Notification When You're Near Someone in Debt
China is gearing up to launch a social credit system in 2020, giving all citizens an identity number that will be linked to a permanent record. Like a financial score, everything from paying back loans to behaviour on public transport will be included. One aspect of this social credit system is a new app in the northern province of Hebei. From a report:
According to the state-run newspaper China Daily, the Hebei-based app will alert people if there are in 500 metres of someone i...
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Psychoanalysts, too, have offered sociological explanations. Fenichel offered one based on Marxist
theory, which may seem odd in post cold war America where 40% of the population invest in the stock
market. ?One gains the impression? he wrote, ? that this quite general characterization of money matters
as ?indelicate? must fulfill a special function in the social ideology. This function must be a negative one:
ignorance about financial matters and the effort to repress them as much as possible, lead to illusions
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In this author?s experience, patients will rarely bring up money issues unless the therapist is willing
to focus attention on them him /or herself. There is only one kind of therapy where discussion of money
and how we relate to it, and to each other because of it, often comes up: marital therapy. It comes up
there because disagreements over money and stresses connected to it are the most common reasons for
marital discord. That, to a significant extent, is the result of the money taboo which results in lack of
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In 1908 Freud identified money with feces and mad a connection of money to anal eroticism. He
also wrote (1917) of the unconscious, symbolic connection of money, through transformation of the
instincts, with penises, babies and gifts. Ferenczi (1952) wrote about the ontogenesis of the interest in
money as a progression from interest in feces though increasingly sublimated interests in mud, sand,
prettily shaped and colored pebbles, more sophisticated collectibles and finally money. According to
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Malware Developer Who Used Spam Botnet To Pay For College Gets No Prison Time (bleepingcomputer.com)
An anonymous reader writes:
The operator of a 77,000-strong spam botnet was sentenced to two years probation and no prison time after admitting his crime and completely reforming his life. The former botnet operator is now working for a cybersecurity company, and admitted his actions as soon as the FBI knocked on his door back in 2013. The botnet operator, a 29-year-old from Santa Clara, California, says he was tricked by fellow co-schemers who told him they were not doing anything wrong by infecting computers with malware because they were not accessing private information such as banking...
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