Jonathan Clements Explains Why Dying is Hard Work

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This is Masters in Business with Barry Rittholz on Bloomberg Radio. This week on the podcast, boy, what an extra special guest I have. Jonathan Clemens was the personal finance columnist at the Wall Street. journal for nearly 25 years. He wrote over a thousand columns.

He also worked as director of financial education at at Citigroup. Jonathan kind of famously announced that he was diagnosed with terminal cancer on his website as well as social media. And that started this cascade of not just an outpouring of affection and and appreciation for his work. but just a dialogue about how we all should be thinking about our lives, our money, and our life satisfaction. I've been a reader of his for p for forever, and it was really a privilege to have him come into the studios and with no hesitancy discuss what many people find to be difficult subjects, um, with just tremendous grace and and

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