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Transcript: Ramit Sethi

The Big Picture

So, you start the blog in 2004, more or less. You know, a rich life, most people expect a money book to start with a chapter on budgets. We’re going to get a budget. Everybody hates the word budget. Everybody hates the word budget. I hate budgets myself. SETHI: Yes. How did that evolve into a book?

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Transcript: John Hope Bryant

The Big Picture

And as well-meaning as financial literacy is, it’s got two problems. One, it doesn’t have a budget allocation from Congress. They’re a budget, they’re a check writing organization. BRYANT: Because small business starts stalled in 2004. What they don’t want is an unfunded mandate.

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