Dan Caplinger has spent most of his career helping people understand money — first as a tax and estate planning attorney, then as a longtime writer at The Motley Fool. But the financial lessons that shaped him most started long before any of that: skipping school lunch to save a few dollars, counting coin rolls with his mom, and learning the hard way that a $60 Pac-Man game isn't what a nine-year-old thinks it is.
Chris Hill talks with Dan about:
- What the billable-hours model of law firms taught him about misaligned incentives
- How he and his wife structured their finances before getting married
- One change he would make to the US tax code
- The money lesson he wishes he'd learned at 19
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Opening clip – “Wall Street”