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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    11:59 am
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    “Because he arrived shortly after you did, and we were here a half hour before that securing the
    area
    “Securing the area!” erupted Conklin, looking at Krupkin“I thought this conference was strictly
    between us
    “Dear Aleksei, benevolent Aleksei, who would save me from myselfCan you really believe Gucci Clutches I’d
    meet with you without considering my own protectionNot you personally, old friend, but your
    aggressors in WashingtonCan you imagine? A deputy director of the CIA negotiates with me over
    a man he pretends to think I do not know
    “Goddamn you, I never told him!”
    “Oh, dear me, then the error’s mine
    “Don’t,” interrupted Jason firmly“That old man’s from the silver chanel Jackal—”
    “Carlos!” cried Krupkin, his face flushed, his alert blue eyes now intense, angry“The Jackal’s
    after you, Aleksei?”
    “No, him,” answered Conklin
    “Good God! With what we’ve picked up, it’s all falling into placeSo I have the distinct honor
    to meet the infamous Jason BourneA great pleasure, sir! We have the same objective where
    Carlos is concerned, do we not?”
    “If your men gucci boston bag are any good, we may reach that objective before the next hour’s upCome on!
    Let’s get out of here and use the back way, the kitchen, a window, whateverHe’s found me and
    you can bet your ass he’s coming out here for meOnly he doesn’t know we know thatLet’s go!”
    As the three men rose from the table Krupkin gave instructions to his aide“Have the car
    brought around to the gucci tote rear, the service entrance, if there is one, but do it casually, SergeiNo sense
    of urgency, you understand me?”
    “We can drive half a mile down the road and turn into a pasture that will lead to the rear of the
    buildingWe will not be seen by the old man in his carAnd have our backup remain in place but be prepared
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    5:58 am
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    But nobody said anything about public speaking
    This time the laughter was a little freer and a
    little more general
    "I was going to start by saying I have no idea how
    I wound up here, but actually I doAnd that's
    good, because it's all I have to tellYou see, I
    don't know anything about art history, art theory,
    or even art appreciationSome of you probably
    know Mary omega watches prices Ire
    588
    This brought a chuckle, as if I'd said Some of you
    may have heard of Andy WarholThe lady herself
    looked around, preening a little, her back ramrod
    straight
    "When I first brought some of my paintings into
    the Scoto Gallery, MsIre saw them and called me
    an American primitiveI sort of resented that,
    because I change my underwear every morning and
    brush my teeth every night before I go to bed-"
    Another dior women burst of laughterMy legs were just legs
    again, not cement, and now that I felt capable of
    running away, I no longer wanted or needed toIt
    was possible they'd hate my pictures, but that was
    all right because I didn't hate themLet them
    have their little laugh, their little boo-and-hiss,
    their little gasp of distaste (or their little
    yawn), if that was what they wanted to do; when it
    was over, I could go back kelly bag hermes and paint more
    And if they loved them? Same deal
    "But if she meant I'm someone who's doing
    something he doesn't understand, that he can't
    express in words because no one ever taught him
    the right terms, then she's right
    589
    Kamen was nodding and looking pleasedAnd so, by
    God, was Mary Ire
    "So all that leaves is the story of how I got here
    - the bridge I walked over to get from my other
    life to the one I'm fake louis vuitton bags living these days
    Kamen was patting his meaty hands together
    soundlesslyThat made me feel goodHaving him
    there made me feel goodI don't know exactly what
    would have happened if he hadn't've been, but I
    think it would have been what Wireman calls mucho
    feo - very ugly
    "But I have to keep it simple, because my friend
    Wireman says that when it comes to the past, we
    all stack the deck, and I believe that's dior bag tru
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    11:59 am
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    He once more offered me the Palacio golf cart for
    the return trip to Big PinkI told him I'd be
    fine walking, but I wouldn't mind having a glass
    of juice before setting out
    Now I enjoy fresh-squeezed Florida oj as much as
    anyone, but I confess to having an ulterior motive
    that particular morningHe left me in the little
    462
    receiving room at the beach end of El logo louis vuitton Palacio's
    glassed-in center hallHe used this room as an
    office, although how a man who couldn't read for
    more than five minutes at a stretch could deal
    with correspondence was beyond meI guessed - and
    this touched me - that Elizabeth might have helped
    him, and quite a lot, before her own condition
    began to worsen
    Coming in for breakfast, I had glanced into this
    room and spied a certain gray folder lying on the
    closed lid of a tiffany toggle heart laptop for which Wireman probably
    had little use these daysI flipped it open now
    and took one of the three X-rays
    "Big glass or little glass?" Wireman called from
    the kitchen, startling me so badly that I almost
    dropped the sheet in my hand
    "Medium's fine!" I called backI tucked the X-ray
    film into my collection pouch and flipped the
    folder closed againFive minutes later I was
    trudging back up the beach
    iv
    463
    I didn't cartier pasha watch like the idea of stealing from a friend -
    not even a single X-ray photographNor did I like
    keeping silent about what I was sure I'd done to
    Candy BrownI could have told him; after the Tom
    Riley business, he would have believed meEven
    without that little twinkle of ESP, he would have
    believed meThat was the trouble, actually
    Wireman wasn't stupidIf I could send Candy Brown
    to the Sarasota County Morgue with a black quilted bag paintbrush,
    then maybe I could do for a certain brain-damaged
    ex-lawyer what the doctors could notBut what if
    I couldn't? Better not to raise false hopesat
    least outside of my own heart, where they were
    outrageously high
    By the time I got back to Big Pink, my hip was
    yellingI slung my duffle coat into the closet,
    took a couple of Oxycontins, and saw the messagelight
    on my answering machine was blinkingHe was delighted to hear diaper bag gucci from
    5:58 am
    @@@@@ My dad finally put down the paperI could
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    My dad finally put down the paperI could tell he was thinking
    "Well, son," he began slowly"If you want to be rich, you have to learn to make money
    "How do I make money?" I asked
    "Well, use your head, son," he said, smilingWhich really meant, "That's all I'm going to tell you," or "I don't know the answer, so don't embarrass me

    A Partnership Is Formed

    The next morning, I told my best friend, Mike, what my dad had saidAs best I could tell, Mike and I were the only poor kids in this schoolMike was like me in that he was in this school by a twist of fateSomeone had drawn a jog in the line for the school district, and we wound up in school with the rich kidsWe weren't really poor, but we felt as if we were because all the other boys had new baseball gloves, ,,,y
    new bicycles, new everything
    Mom and dad provided us with the basics, like food, shelter, clothes:, But that was about itMy dad used to say, "If you want something, work for it We wanted things, but there was not much work available for 9- , year-old boys
    "So what do we do to make money?" Mike asked
    "I don't know," I said"But do you want to be my partner?"
    He agreed and so on that Saturday morning, Mike became my first business partnerWe spent all morning coming up with ideas on how to 1'make moneyOccasionally we talked about all the "cool guys" at Jimmy's beach house having funIt hurt a little, but that hurt was good, for it inspired us to keep thinking of a way to make moneyFinally, that afternoon, a bolt of lightning came through our headsIt was an idea Mike had gotten from a science book he had readExcitedly, we shook hands, and the partnership now had a busine
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    12:07 pm
    @@@@@ I wondered who this strange man was, the
    @@@@@
    I wondered who this strange man was, the one who had come back in Kyle's placeHad they
    checked his eyes? I couldn't believe he'd carried all this gentleness around inside his big angry
    body
    It must have been having Jodi back, being so close to what he wantedEven knowing that this
    was his Jodi's body, I was surprised that he could expend so much kindness for the soul inside it
    I would have thought such compassion was beyond him
    “How's the Healer?” Jared asked me
    “She woke up, just before I came to find you,” I said
    I heard more than one sigh of relief in the darkness
    “She's disoriented, though, and very frightened,” I warned them all“She can't remember her
    nameDoc's working with herShe's going to be even more scared when she sees all of youTry
    to be quiet and move slowly, okay?”
    “Yes, yes,” the voices whispered in the darkness
    “And, Jeb, do you think you could lose the gun? She's a little afraid of humans still
    “Uh–okay,” Jeb answered
    “Afraid of humans?” Kyle murmured
    “We're the bad guys,” Ian reminded him, squeezing my hand
    I squeezed it back, glad for the warmth of his touch, the pressure of his fingers
    How much longer would I have the feeling of a hand warm around mine? When was the last
    time I would walk down this tunnel? Was it this time?
    NoNot yet,Mel whispered
    I was suddenly tremblingIan's hand tightened again, and so did Jared's
    We walked in silence for a few moments
    “Kyle?” Sunny's timid voice asked
    “Yes?”
    “I don't want to go back to the Bea
    5:59 am
    @@@@@Pappy said his granpappy used to have an ole
    @@@@@Pappy said his granpappy used to have an ole nigger woman bleed him wheneveh he had the feverTha's jus' what Ah'm doin' nowHe looked mistily at the groundThe blood was sopping against his shirt front, which made him slightly uncomfortableHe held his hand over it, smiling faintly
    His eyes stared at the ground two inches awayTime hung still, unmoving about himHe felt the heat of the sun on his back; he dropped, submerged, in the chattering rhythms of the insect life about him, and the square foot of earth he could see became magnified until every grain stood out perfect and completeThe ground was no longer brown; it was a checkerboard of individual crystals, of red and white and yellow and black; his sense of dimension vanishedHe thought he was looking from an airplane at several fields and a patch of wood, and the tall grass blurred a few inches from the ground, became nebulous and shifting like cloud vaporsThe roots were surprisingly white with thick scaly bark stippled with brown like birch treesEverything he saw was proportioned to the size of a forest, but a new forest, one he had never seen before, and quite odd
    A few ants meandered past his nose, turned about to look up at him, and then waddled onThey seemed the size of cows, or the way cows would look from the top of a high hillHe watched them pass out of his line of vision
    Goddam, they're cute little buggers, he thought weaklyHis head settled on his forearm, and the wood darkened before his eyes, turned upside down as he fainted
    He awoke, he drifted out of unconsciousness perhaps ten minutes laterAnd lay there motionless, wavering between wakefulness and sleepEach of his senses seemed to have sprung free of the other; he would stare emptily at the ground, or close his eyes and breathe, only his ears alert, or his head would roll on the ground, his nose twitching over the faint bouquet of earth, the pungent spice smell of the grass roots, or over the dry decay of mold
    But something was wrongHe raised his head, listened, and heard some men talking softly in the field ten yards awayHe stared through the tall grass, unable to see clearlyHe thought it was someone in the platoon perhaps, and he worked his throat to speak, and then stiffened
    There were Japanese in the field, or at least he heard men talking in a strange guttural, pitched in odd tones, rather breathles
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    12:07 pm
    @@@@@"Too friendly, maybe," Martinez
    @@@@@"Too friendly, maybe," Martinez suggested"Platoon leader should be tough guy
    "This guy looks like he can be a mean sonofabitch," Brown saidHe was undecided about HearnBrown didn't like Croft particularly, and he sensed that Croft was contemptuous of him, but at least the situation was stableWith a new lieutenant, he'd have to be careful, always do his best, and even then he might not please him"He seems like a good guy though," Brown said mildlyThere was something else bothering himHe lit a cigarette and exhaled cautiously, his lungs still raw from the exertion of the marchThe cigarette tasted unpleasant, but he continued to smoke it"You know, I swear, Japbait," he blurted, "the times like this when you're on a patrol I wish I was a privateThose guys think we got it easy, especially all the replacements, they think being a noncom is a snap where you get all the breaks He fingered one of the sores on his chin"What the hell, they don't know the kind of responsibilities we gotYou take someone like Stanley, he ain't seen a damn thing hardly so he's ambitious, he wants to get aheadI'll tell you, Japbait, I was pretty goddam proud when I made sergeant, but I don't know if I'd take it if I had to do it over againHe was feeling slyly amused"It's hard," he offered
    "You're fuggin ay, it's hard Brown plucked a leaf from a branch which overhung the rock, and chewed reflectively on it"You know you can take just so much, and then your nerves start goin' to potI'll tell ya, I can talk to you, 'cause you know just what the hell the score is, but if you had to do it all over again would you take sergeant?"
    "Who know?" But Martinez had no doubts; he would have taken itFor a moment he saw again the three chevrons he had worn on his dress olive-drabs and felt a characteristic uneasy pride
    "You know what scares me, Japbait? I'll tell ya, my nerves are goneSometimes I'm afraid I'll just go to pieces and I won't be able to do a goddam thi
    6:06 am
    @@@@@Rhett! her heart cried, even as her mind
    @@@@@Rhett! her heart cried, even as her mind mocked the notion of
    simple directness from his dark complex natureAt the end of the
    song
    Polly threw her arms around Gerald's neck and hid her face in
    his shoulderMaureen lifted the bones above her shoulder"We'll
    have
    a reel now," she announced firmly
    "My toes are fairly twitching Daniel laughed and began to play
    Scarlett had danced the Virginia reel a hundred times or more, but
    she'd never seen dancing like what happened next at Patricia's
    birthday
    partyMatt O 'Hara began itWith his shoulders straight and his arms
    stiff at his side he looked like a soldier when he stepped away from the
    circle of chairsThen his feet began to pound and flash and twist and
    move so quickly that they blurred in Scarlett's visionThe floor
    became a resounding drum under his heels, became like polished ice
    under his intricate impossible steps forward and backHe must be the
    best dancer in the whole world, Scarlett thoughtAnd then Katie
    danced out to face him, her skirts held up in her two hands so that her
    feet were free to match his stepsMary Kate was next, then Jamie
    joined his daughterAnd beautiful Helen with a cousin, a little boy
    who couldn't be older than eightI don't believe it, Scarlett
    thoughtThey're magic, all of themThe music's magic, tooHer
    feet moved, faster than they'd ever moved before, trying to mimic
    what
    she was seeing, trying to express the excitement of the musicI've
    got to learn to dance like that, I've just got tolike
    you spin right up to the sunA sleeping child under the settee woke
    at the sounds of the dancing feet and began to cryLike a contagion,
    crying spread to the other smallest childrenThe dancing and the
    music stopped"Make some mattresses from folded blankets in the
    other
    parlor," Maureen said placidly, "and give them dry botto
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    11:59 am
    @@@@@ "'Though I speak with the tongues of men
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    "'Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels " Rhett
    murmured with a chuckle"What on earth are you talking about?"
    "Just quoting He forced his face into a serious expression, but
    his dark eyes were gleeful"I wish you all the luck in the world,
    Scarlett," he said"Consider it my benediction He left her room
    with his composure intact, then he laughed with genuine delight
    Scarlett would keep her promise, she always didWith her help, he'd
    smooth over the scandal; then, in only two weeks the Season would
    end
    and Scarlett would be gone
    He'd be free of the tension she had brought to the life he was trying
    to build in Charleston, and he'd be free to get back to the Landing
    There was so much that he wanted to do on the plantation
    Scarlett's bullheaded assault on the Mother Superior of Carreen's
    convent should be a good entertainment to divert him until his life was
    his own againI'd bet on the Roman Catholic Church, Rhett said to
    himselfIt thinks of time in aeons, not in weeksBut I wouldn't
    want to bet muchWhen Scarlett takes the bit between her teeth
    she's
    a formidable force to reckon withHe laughed quietly for a long
    time
    As Rhett had expected, Scarlett's relations with the Mother Superior
    were far from simple"She won't say yes and she won't say no and
    she
    doesn't even listen when I try to explain the good sense of selling!"
    Scarlett complained after her first visit to the conventAnd her
    second visit, third, fifthShe was baffled and frustratedRhett
    listened with kind, patient attention while she raged, keeping
    his laughter insideHe knew that he was the only person she had to
    talk toIn addition, Scarlett's efforts provided him with fresh
    delights almost daily as she escalated her assault on the Holy Mother
    ChurchShe began going to Mass every morning, confident that word
    of
    her devotion would get back to the conven
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    who was at best a simple courier!” whispered the Russian, spitting out the words
    “I don’t know the facts and I wouldn’t be too quick to call Moscow the mercy capital of the
    world, but if you can help me—really help me—maybe I can help your mother
    “Goddamned bullshit promisesWhat the hell can you do?”
    “To repeat balenciaga replica what I said an hour ago to a bald-headed friend of yours in the plane, I don’t owe my
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    have nothing to do with your purpose here—you won’t get outClear?”
    “It’s not only clear, it’s irrelevant and unnecessaryBeyond normal astonishment and curiosity,
    both of which men omega watch I will suppress to the best of my ability, I haven’t the slightest interest in the
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    the whole complex beats the hell out of Disneyland
    Benjamin’s involuntary laugh through the straw caused the foam onhis milk shake to swell and
    burst“Have you been to Anaheim?” he asked mischievously
    “I could never afford it
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    “Christ, you’re human, after allCome on, let’s take a walk and talk some turkey
    They crossed over a miniature bridge into New London, Connecticut, home of America’s
    submarine construction, and strolled down to the Volkhov River, which in this area had been turned
    into a maximum security naval base—again, all in realistic miniatureHigh fences and armed “U
    Marine” guards were stationed at omega seamaster watch the gates and patrolled the grounds fronting the concrete slips that
    held enormous mock-ups of the stallions of America’s nuclear undersea fleet
    “We have all the stations, all the schedules, every device and every reduced inch of the piers,”
    said Benjamin“And we’ve yet to break the security proceduresIsn’t that crazy?”
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    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    11:59 am
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    It was the quickness born of pure fury that propelled him, obsessed him, and he knew that to win
    he had to win quickly, with all the speed that was in himHe crept swiftly along the fence that
    enclosed the airfield, and past the corner of the terminal, prepared for the instant of exposureThe
    lethal submachine gun was still gripped in his hand, his index finger now on the triggerThere was
    a cluster of wild shrubbery preceding two thick trees no more chanel white watch than thirty feet away; if he could
    reach them, the advantage was hisHe would have the “high ground,” the Jackal in the valley of
    death, if only because he was behind the assassin and unseen
    He reached the shrubberyAnd at the moment he heard a massive smashing of glass followed by
    yet another fusillade—this time so prolonged that the entire magazine had to have been emptied
    He had not been seen; the figure by the window had backed away to reload, his concentration on
    that task, not on the possibility of an escapeCarlos, too, was growing old and losing his chanel handbags sale finesse,
    thought Jason BourneWhere were the flares intrinsic to such an operation? Where were the alert,
    roving eyes that loaded weapons in total darkness?
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    358
    DarknessA cloud cover blocked the yellow rays of the moon; there was darknessHe vaulted
    over the fence, concealing himself behind the shrubbery, then raced to the first of the two trees
    where he could stand upright, view the scene and consider his optionsThere was a primitiveness he could not associate with the JackalThe
    assassin had isolated the terminal, ad valorem, black quilted bag and the price was high, but there was an absence of
    the finer points of the deadly equationThe subtlety was not there; instead, there was a brute force,
    hardly to be denied, but not when employed against the man they called Jason Bourne who had
    escaped from the trap
    The figure by the shattered window had spent his ammunition; he reeled back against the
    building, pulling another magazine out of his pocketJason raced out of the cover of the trees, his
    MAC-10 on automatic fire, exploding the dirt in front of the killer, then circling the bullets around
    his rolex watches for sale frame
    “That’s it!” he shouted, closing in on the assassin“You’re dead, Carlos, with one pull of my
    finger—if you are the Jackal!”
    The man by the shattered window threw down his weaponBourne,” said the
    executioner from Larchmont, New York“We’ve met before, but I am not the person you think I
    am
    “Hit the ground, you son of a bitch!” The killer did so as Jason approached“Spread your legs
    and your arms!” The command was obeyed“Raise your head!”
    The man did so, and Bourne stared at the face, vaguely illuminated by the distant glow of the
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    5:58 am
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    "Miss Eastlake, don't tax yourself," Wireman said
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    "Hush, Wireman," I said
    "You paint," she said
    "Have you painted the ship yet?"
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    sink so much as it seemed to disappear and leave a
    void between my heart and the rest of my gutsMy
    knees tried to buckleThe steel in my hip went
    hotThe back of my neck went coldAnd warm,
    prickling fire ran up mens gucci watches the arm that wasn't there"Again and again and again
    "You're Edgar," she saidI guessed no one had called her honey
    in a long time"My mind is like a tablecloth with
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    "I love you, too, Miss Eastlake," he Chloe Purse saidIs it Edgar?"
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    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    11:59 am
    @@@@@Have you ever had someone call and thank
    @@@@@Have
    you ever had someone call and thank you for that?"
    "No Although I'd recently had someone call and
    thank me for saving his sight, so I kind of knew
    what she was talking about
    "It's quite an experience'If not for you I'd be
    dead now' Those were his exact wordsAnd I
    couldn't tell him he had you to thank, because it
    would have sounded crazy
    It was as if a tight belt cinching my middle had
    suddenly been cut awaySometimes things work out
    for the bestSometimes they actually do
    "I've been on to Ilse about this show of yours
    "Yes, I-"
    "Well, Illy and Lin both, but when I talked to
    Ilse, I turned the conversation toward Tom and I
    could tell right away that she doesn't know
    anything about what went on between the two of us
    I was wrong about that, tooAnd showed a very
    unpleasant side of myself while I was at it
    561
    I realized, with alarm, that she was crying
    "I've shown several unlovely sides of myself, to
    several people, since you left me
    I didn't leave you! I almost shoutedClose enough to make sweat pop out on my
    foreheadI didn't leave you, you asked for a
    divorce, you witting quench!
    What I said was "Pam, that's enough
    "But it was so hard to believe, even after you
    called and told me those other thingsYou know,
    about my new TV
    I started to ask who Puffball was, then remembered
    the cat
    "I'm doing better, thoughI've started going to
    church againCan you believe that? And a
    therapistI see her once a wee
    5:58 am
    @@@@@ Most never become what the investment world
    @@@@@ Most never become what the investment world calls a "sophisticated investor And the best investments are usually first sold to "sophisticated investors," who then turn around and sell them to the people playing it safeI am not saying don't buy a houseI am saying, understand the difference between an asset and a liabilityWhen I want a bigger house, I first buy assets that will generate the cash flow to pay for the house
    My educated dad's personal financial statement best demonstrates the life of someone in the rat race His expenses seem to always keep up with his income, never allowing him to invest in assetsAs a result, his liabilities, such as his mortgage and credit card debts are larger than his assets The following picture is worth a thousand words:

    Educated Dad's Financial Statement

    Income=Expense
    Asset < Liability

    My rich dad's personal financial statement, on the other hand, reflects the results of a life dedicated to investing and minimizing liabilities:

    Rich Dad's Financial Statement

    Income > Expense
    Asset > Liability

    A review of my rich dad's financial statement is why the rich get richerThe asset column generates more than enough income to cover expenses, with the balance reinvested into the asset columnThe asset column continues to grow and, therefore, the income it produces grows with it
    The result being: The rich get richer!

    Why the Rich Get Richer

    Income -> Assets -> More Income
    Expenses are low, Liabilities are low

    The middle class finds itself in a constant state of financial struggleTheir primary- income is through wages, and as their wages increase, so do their taxesTheir expenses tend to increase in equal increments as their wages increase; hence the phrase "the rat race They treat their home as their primary asset, instead on investing in income-producing assets

    Why the Middle Class Struggle

    Income goes up, Expenses go up
    Assets do not increase, Liabilities do increase

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