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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,...

10 Jul 2020 Let’s Get Tactical, Shall We?

Posted at 07:30h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

The hardest question I ever get asked is this: Which is better, Eastern North Carolina barbecue or Western (really, Lexington) North Carolina barbecue? The question isn't hard to answer because I don't know what I think about it (Eastern is 100% the best, though both...

19 Jun 2020 Contagious Diseases, Vices, and Virtues

Posted at 08:00h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

In my annual late-December reading of Charles Dickens' delightful short story A Christmas Carol, one of my favorite lines is this: "It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so...

29 May 2020 New Website, Same Great Service

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

Unless you are visiting our site for the first time (in which case, welcome!!), you will have noticed by now that it's new and--we believe and hope--improved. A website for any sort of professional services firm is an interesting thing. We don't sell a tangible product...