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The episode discusses misconceptions about life insurance products, listener musical tastes, and portfolio reviews.

In this episode we answer emails from Wilson, Tim, and John. We discuss why life insurance products are not magical perpetual motion machines that make your portfolios go faster, why insurance contracts cannot outperform the same underlying investments once costs and commissions are included, and how insurance marketers mislead the public with biased studies. We also a listener's musical tastes and answer an I Bonds allocation question. And we discuss our Top of the T-shirt Campaign (P...

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