Why I left Wall Street to become a monk

Meet Rasanath Dasa, a man who walked away from a job in investment banking paying six figures to become a Hindu monk. See his story on CNN Business here.
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Why do we hate our jobs?

While the world’s workplace is going through extraordinary change, the practice of management has been frozen in time for more than 30 years. According to Gallup’s World Poll, many people in the world hate their job and especially their boss. My own conclusion i...
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Do Democrats have a marketing problem?

Democrats continued their 2017 run of being unable to win special elections in strongly Republican districts on Tuesday. These results have led people to ask what the Democratic Party must change if it is to take back Congress (and eventually the White House). I have what may be...
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Scandal-Hit Libor to Be Phased Out

In five years, Libor could be no more. On Thursday, a top U.K. regulator said it would phase out the London interbank offered rate, a scandal-plagued benchmark that is used to set the price of trillions of dollars of loans and derivatives across the world. Andrew Bailey, the...
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Labor Department Mutiny: Obama’s holdovers refuse to follow Trump’s directive

Now we know one reason Democrats blocked President Trump’s first nominee to be secretary of Labor: The bureaucracy is in open rebellion against the new President’s directives. The casus belli is the fiduciary rule, the attempt by Obama Labor Secretary Tom Perez to rewrite the...
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Why can’t self-satisfied liberals admit that conservatives care about people, too?

As someone who voted for Barack Obama twice, supported the Affordable Care Act, and could be persuaded to vote for the right kind of single-payer system, I’ve found the entire health-care debate over the past several months deeply depressing. That’s no doubt why my...
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Wells Fargo Slams Former Bosses’ High-Pressure Sales Tactics

A new report on the sales scandal at Wells Fargo & Co. portrayed its former chief executive as a tone-deaf leader who protected an irresponsible lieutenant and worked for board members who didn’t keep the pair in check. The report, a long-awaited investigation of a scandal...
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How Billy Graham shaped American Catholicism

Billy Graham died this morning, Feb. 21, in Montreat, N.C., at the age of 99. Given his long life, it is easy to forget how young Mr. Graham was when he first emerged in the public eye. At an age that today marks a point when many adults are just feeling confident in a career and...
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How to Evaluate Your Financial Adviser

Peter Lazaroff (@peterlazaroff) is the director of investment research at Plancorp and blogs at peterlazaroff.com. Most people don’t know how to properly evaluate their financial adviser and overly rely on performance as the sole measurement of success. This is problematic...
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Sobering News on Financial Inclusion

The World Bank’s recent Global Findex report found that since 2014, 515 million new financial accounts were opened around the world. On the face of it, that seems like solid progress. But new research and analysis from the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion(CFI) is sobering...
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