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is bad,"or "God will solve the problem."
These responses are from people with low financial IQs. Rather than
facing the problems head-on and asking, "How can I profit from these
problems?" they would rather stick their head in the sand. And this is why
millions, possibly billions, ofpeople will be hurt in the coming years.Instead
of looking at the problem as an opportunity, they choose to put their
blinders on.

WEALTH = ENERGY

My rich dad taught me, soon after the first oil crisis in 1973-74 that oil
and wealth were directly related. He would often say, "Wealth = Energy."
Since I was an apprentice at Standard Oil, on their tankers, beginning in
1966, I had an interest in oil. Rich dad'sexplanation was a simple one. He
said, "When the price of energy goes down, our wealth goes up." The
equation looks like this:

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