The Hardest Money Skill Nobody Talks About (Dan Caplinger)

About this episode

Chris Hill talks with Dan Caplinger about the essential money skills that are often overlooked.

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 t...

People in this episode

Host: Chris Hill

Guest: Dan Caplinger

Topics covered

• money management
• financial education
• personal finance
• law and finance
• life lessons

Keywords

• money skills
• financial lessons
• tax planning
• estate planning
• Pac-Man game

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Motley Fool

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