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MONDAY, 2 JULY 1973
Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world.
Your overdraft found it first. It's been compounding you since 2017.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Sleep when the baby sleeps. Also pay the mortgage when the baby pays the…
- Both parties say this is the most important election of your lifetime. They said…
- You reinstalled Pokémon Go to get your steps up. Eleven kilometres later you'd caught…
- You've rewritten that text nine times to sound like you didn't care. It's been…
- Opposites attract. Then they argue about the thermostat for forty years. Whoever outlives the…
- Your inbox reached zero once. The server was down. You were briefly free and…
- You started saying "oof" when you sit down. That's the countdown, out loud.
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Newsletter / Issue No. 446
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