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You finance people work under the assumption that everybody cares—or should care—about the underlying concepts of your field

Those aren't finance terms, they are taxpayer terms! Long term capital gains, alternative minimum tax, everyone knows who the IRS are...



But those acronyms are vague and I had no idea what they were until you spelled them out.


That's the point of the article.




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