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13 Aug How To Improvise A Life

Posted at 18:22h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

"We’re all being surprised at the same time." Seth Godin riffed on this Keith Jarrett quote (regarding jazz improvisation) a few days ago, and I thought I'd pick it up as well. Keith Jarrett. JPRoche, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons I've always liked the idea of jazz...

25 Jun Overrated/Underrated

Posted at 14:48h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

The pure products of America go crazy— When William Carlos Williams opened his poem To Elsie with the above, he did not apparently have dividend stocks in mind, but a poem can be whatever the reader makes of it. So let's play a game of overrated/underrated:...

28 May To Defer, Or Not To Defer

Posted at 13:58h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

The United States income tax system is known as a "progressive" system, meaning that as your income goes up, your marginal tax rate goes up, to a point. This has been the case for a long time. The brackets and the top rates have moved...

30 Apr Downstream Effects

Posted at 14:48h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

Let your life be a pleasant surprise. Save more than you need to, mainly so you can easily and at the spur of the moment leave a large tip or anonymous gift. Curiosity and openness seem to correlate much more highly with joy than the...