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Mark Cuban Thinks You’re More Stuck up Than He Is. Is That Even Possible?
Meanwhile, a honey alternative gets a bunch of sharks buzzed about making a deal.
Brian O'Connor is the award-winning, nationally syndicated "Funny Money" personal finance columnist for the Detroit News, and author of The $1,000 Challenge: How One Family Slashed Its Budget Without Moving Under a Bridge or Living on Government Cheese, from Portfolio-Penguin. In addition to positive reviews, The $1,000 Challenge was named Best Money Management Book of the Year by The Institute for Financial Literacy. A 2001 Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Economics and Business at Columbia University, O'Connor also was the founding managing editor of Bankrate.com.
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