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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