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A correction. If a number here is wrong, or a source has been revised since I quoted it, tell me. This has happened before and it will happen again. Corrections are made in public, in a new post, with a note saying what changed — not quietly edited into the old one.

A question about something I wrote. If a paragraph did not land, that is useful to me. It usually means the explanation was doing less work than I thought.

A topic request. I cannot promise to cover it, and I will not write about an individual stock on request. But if something in the money system confused you, there is a decent chance it confuses a lot of people, and that is exactly what this blog is for.

A note about the books. The IJin Insight Short Reads are published separately from this blog. If something in one of them needs correcting, that reaches me here too.

What I Cannot Help With

Personal financial advice. I am not an advisor and I am not licensed to be one. I do not know your situation, your tax position, or your obligations, and a stranger who does not know those things has no business telling you what to do with your money. Nothing I write is a recommendation to buy or sell anything.

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IJin Insight is written and published by IJin Insight under Aram Press. The blog is based in South Korea and writes about United States markets.

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