Happy New Year, everyone! If you're already back to work, as I am, I'm sorry for you. If you're still on your holiday vacation, enjoy your last days! Working or not, I hope you love the first week in January when everything feels fresh again. I always think at the start of the new year that it is possible to organize life and live it stress free. Ha! Then reality kicks in, about a week or two later. One thing I have resolved to do in the new year is understand economics — my own, at least. And I'll start today, when I interview Hilary Black, whose new book The Secret Currency of Love: The Unabashed Truth About Women, Money, And Relationships comes out Tuesday. (Check out a video preview here.) It's actually an anthology of essays by some of the most interesting women writers working today, and their revelations are quite intimate. I hope to glean the lessons to be learned from Hilary and pass them on.

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