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A Planet Money podcast episode last week directed me to a paper released earlier this year: Dementia and Long-run Trajectories in Household Finances. The authors explain their findings in pretty plain English, so I’m just going to quote their work:
“Our results point to impaired financial decision-making beginning about six years prior to clinically r...
“Have your parents been scammed yet?” Jim Dahle asked me, in a brief one-on-one conversation at the recent White Coat Investor Conference.
The implication, of course, is that it’s a matter of when it happens rather than whether it happens.
At the conference, three other attendees happened to share stories with me of their parents being scammed....
We discussed some weeks ago that using an authenticator app is a more secure method of multi-factor authentication than SMS or email. An even more secure option is using a physical security key, such as a YubiKey. For anyb...
I hadn’t expected it, but interest in the recent cybersecurity-related articles has been absolutely off the charts, based on the volume of incoming questions, comments, and frequency with which readers are sharing the articles with other people.
I only have two more articles planned for the series (hardware security keys and an overall plan to keep yourself and vulnera...