bad money
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For Dagher, repeatedly facing her 5-year-old’s grocery-store requests prompted a dilemma over whether small treats teach bad money habits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
It’s not because Gen X parents think their children make bad money decisions.
From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2024
In the end, Calhoun preferred bad money to good, because it better protected the foundations of the slave society that he wanted to defend above all else.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2021
“You may make location mistakes. You may not think about what you need for every stage of your life, so you buy the wrong size home or make a bad money decision.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2018
Never fear! bad money is not so easily lost; depend upon it, he will come back again.
From Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature, vol. 1 by Mór Jókai
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