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by Powers Investments Management, LLC July 14, 2025
FINANCIAL LITERACY

Teach Your Kids to Read or to Live in Poverty.

Disclaimer: Good Day, Readers.  WealthBuildingPowers blog is a financial literacy/competency blog and does not provide specific investment recommendations.   Read to Your Children: Give Them A Better Future! Click below if you prefer the audio version. Barak Obama When my beautiful daughter was a baby, I became her Audible app—no batteries required, chocolate preferred.  I read countless children’s books to her, many thoughtfully chosen by her grandmom, a retired schoolteacher.  Growing up in a home filled with avid ...

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by Powers Investments Management, LLC May 4, 2020
FINANCIAL LITERACY , INSURANCE AND ILLNESSES , INVESTMENTS

COMING OUT OF COVID-19 AND RETURNING TO “NORMAL” SHOULD BE A NON-STARTER – OUR KID’S AND GRANDKIDS’ LIVES DEPEND ON GETTING SOMEPLACE BETTER

  CHICAGO ONCE HAD THE COURAGE TO REBUILD    In 1871, the citizens of Chicago used a devastating crisis that left 300 dead, destroyed over 17,000 buildings, covering 3.5 square miles, and caused damage of over $200 million (nearly $4 billion today) to rebuild a much greater city.  A year before the great fire, Chicago was the fifth largest city in America. Just two decades after the fire, it was the second largest. ...

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