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Back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth (the ’90s and early 2000s), good money advice was difficult to come by. Your choices were pretty much either to pay for financial advice, work it out yourself, or rely on the content in various self-help books or esteemed local newspapers.
It’s part of the reason why books such as Scott Pape’s The Barefoot Investor or Money guru Noel Whittaker’s Making Money Made Simple became so monumentally popular, as…
