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Saturday links: the secular decline in cereal

Abnormal Returns

Who's number two? cnbc.com) Medicine Americans increasingly don't have a family doctor, i.e. general practitioner. emilyoster.substack.com) Five insights from "Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health" by Apunam Jena and Christopher Worsham.

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Longform links: a collective hallucination

Abnormal Returns

Books An excerpt from “Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health” by Anupam B. modernfarmer.com) A number of sovereign nations have claims on Colorado River water. Jena and Christopher Worsham. noahpinion.blog) Portugal is rethinking drug decriminalization. This isn't good news.

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10 Weekend Reads

The Big Picture

New York Magazine ) • Medicine’s Endgame: The past, present, and future of cell-based therapy : Cell-based therapies sound like science fiction. He is the author of the new book, “ Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall.” What does he really want? ( Asia is much more important to U.S.

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50th Anniversary Of The CFP Marks: The Journey, Current State Of CFP Board, And Growing The Financial Planning Profession

Nerd's Eye View

As a result, in 1973, a group of 35 planners became the inaugural recipients of the CFP marks. The rising popularity of CFP certification was thanks in large part to CFP Board's setting of rigorous educational and examination requirements that established a high bar of competency for those who wished to use the CFP marks.

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The Great Resignation Is Long Over

The Big Picture

By any measure, we still have an enormous number of unfilled positions. The Federal Reserve has little control over the supply issues that have driven most of the inflation we see — in the underbuilt number of new Homes, in the semiconductor-impacted shortage of automobiles, I’m the Russian war-driven increases in energy and food.

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#FA Success Ep 375: Running 20+ Client Meetings Per Week By Systematizing The Meeting Prep And Follow-Up Process, With Rob Schultz

Nerd's Eye View

We also talk about Rob's journey from getting an undergrad in Kinesiology and starting med school to moving into accounting and then ultimately becoming a financial planner through the program at UCLA (because financial planning was the perfect blend of helping people the way he wanted to in medicine, and working with numbers the way he did in accounting), (..)

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Saturday links: plates full of work

Abnormal Returns

nytimes.com) Chinook salmon fishing off the California coast will be called off until next spring due to low numbers. statnews.com) Dogs Is telehealth the future of veterinary medicine? vox.com) Fitness Smartwatch health numbers are at best estimates. (washingtonpost.com) Where the waste from NYC's smart compost bins ends up.

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