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“EAT your vegetables. Save your money. Exercise. Stop procrastinating. Read more. Learn to invest.”

IN case you haven’t noticed, even without raising our respective lifestyles, we generally need more money each passing year to buy the same amount of “stuff”, which economists refer to as goods and services.

THE world’s greatest investor is Warren Edward Buffett, currently (still) chief executive officer of New York Stock Exchange-listed Berkshire Hathaway. Buffett will turn 95 on Aug 30 this year, and recently announced that at the end of 2025 he will step down as CEO, yet thankfully retain his chairmanship of Berkshire, which he’s controlled for 60 years.

I THINK it is unfortunate, yet understandable, that most responsible adults only get serious about financial planning after they turn 40.

A FEW weeks ago, I managed to squeeze in an overdue family holiday. The six of us stayed at Strawberry Park Resort in Tanah Rata, a picturesque town in Cameron Highlands.

FIRST the good news: Our global economy should — at the very least — continue to expand for as long as:

Have you noticed how some Hollywood movies rely on the staple formula of a man and woman meeting as strangers in a bar, hitting it off (or not, as the case may be), and at the end of our — generally sub-two hours of — viewing time, overcoming formulaic obstacles before ending up together, presumably forever?