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18 Sep 2020 Nikola and Startup Investing

Posted at 06:00h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

"The short seller said a 2018 promotional video showing a prototype of a Nikola semi-truck traveling down the road was staged and that the truck was rolling down a hill rather than propelling itself...

11 Sep 2020 Nervy Week, Nervy Q4?

Posted at 06:00h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

[caption id="attachment_12133" align="alignleft" width="300"] COVID chart or Stock Market chart?[/caption] It's been a nervy week of trading in the stock market! Particularly for tech stocks. The Nasdaq Composite Index (which is heavily weighted toward tech stocks) fell more than 10% in just three trading sessions after...

21 Aug 2020 What Happens When You Retire “Early”

Posted at 07:00h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

The idea of retirement, that you come to live a life of relative independence without working, is quite new in human history and even today is not a universal reality by any means. But in the US, in the year 2020, retirement is a reality—or...

31 Jul 2020 How Has The Coronavirus Shaped Your Priorities?

Posted at 07:00h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

Almost none of us will get through this unscathed. There is a sense in which we are all dealing with a collective trauma—from the emotional toll of being cut off from friends and family to the horror of experiencing the death-dealing of the virus firsthand,...