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James Sexton

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4040 total appearances

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Prof G Markets
Marriage Is the Biggest Financial Risk You’ll Take — ft. James Sexton

I mean, look, I'm

Prof G Markets
Marriage Is the Biggest Financial Risk You’ll Take — ft. James Sexton

I'm still very much a romantic at heart, even after doing this for 25 years.

Prof G Markets
Marriage Is the Biggest Financial Risk You’ll Take — ft. James Sexton

Like, I think that the value that a good, strong relationship brings to someone in their life is, you can't measure it.

Prof G Markets
Marriage Is the Biggest Financial Risk You’ll Take — ft. James Sexton

I mean, I've seen some incredibly successful people have incredibly successful marriages.

Prof G Markets
Marriage Is the Biggest Financial Risk You’ll Take — ft. James Sexton

And by the way, I don't think a marriage has to last forever for it to be successful.

Prof G Markets
Marriage Is the Biggest Financial Risk You’ll Take — ft. James Sexton

I think, you know, you can have a happily ever after separately.

Prof G Markets
Marriage Is the Biggest Financial Risk You’ll Take — ft. James Sexton

You know, my ex-wife,

Prof G Markets
Marriage Is the Biggest Financial Risk You’ll Take — ft. James Sexton

has been remarried for 15 years.

Prof G Markets
Marriage Is the Biggest Financial Risk You’ll Take — ft. James Sexton

She's a wonderful person.

Prof G Markets
Marriage Is the Biggest Financial Risk You’ll Take — ft. James Sexton

The man she married is a wonderful guy.

Prof G Markets
Marriage Is the Biggest Financial Risk You’ll Take — ft. James Sexton

I consider him part of our family.

Prof G Markets
Marriage Is the Biggest Financial Risk You’ll Take — ft. James Sexton

You know, and we raised our sons as a group, and I'm so blessed to have had that chapter.

Prof G Markets
Marriage Is the Biggest Financial Risk You’ll Take — ft. James Sexton

And I think that it would be much healthier if we viewed relationships as chapters in a long story.

Prof G Markets
Marriage Is the Biggest Financial Risk You’ll Take — ft. James Sexton

And I think, you know, marriage came about when most women died in childbirth and most men died before they were 50.

Prof G Markets
Marriage Is the Biggest Financial Risk You’ll Take — ft. James Sexton

And now, happily ever after, marriage is running into the same problems that the pension system is running into, which is it made sense when you paid in for 20 years and then you died when you were in payout for 10 years.

Prof G Markets
Marriage Is the Biggest Financial Risk You’ll Take — ft. James Sexton

But now you pay in for 25 years and then your defined benefit plan kicks in and it's paying you for the next 40 years.

Prof G Markets
Marriage Is the Biggest Financial Risk You’ll Take — ft. James Sexton

This is why the postal system is going to go under, because the pension, it was not designed for these current climate conditions.

Prof G Markets
Marriage Is the Biggest Financial Risk You’ll Take — ft. James Sexton

I mean, marriage is...

Prof G Markets
Marriage Is the Biggest Financial Risk You’ll Take — ft. James Sexton

Like so many other things, we are primates living in medieval institutions with godlike technology in our hands.

Prof G Markets
Marriage Is the Biggest Financial Risk You’ll Take — ft. James Sexton

Like, how does that story end?