In many ways, today's financial profession is producing better long-term analysis and planning than ever. But whenever I see a "gold-standard" planning process in action, I often ask the practitioner a question:

"Are all the numbers in your plan denominated in U.S. dollars?"

The answer, of course, is that dollar-denominated plans are all most planners have ever known. What's the alternative, anyway? Planning in euros or yen?

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