By Byron Moore, posted October 13, 2016
The following segment first aired on KEDM 90.3.
John Mauldin once wrote, “…the choices we make today are constrained by the choices we made in the past, and the choices we make in the future will be limited by the choices we make today.”
That reality can paralyze you, which is the wrong response.
So how do we know what is the right thing to do?
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