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10 Jan 2020 Is Tesla The Next Big Thing?

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

Look, first off, I don't know. And secondly, if you've been around us very long at Beacon you know that we are not stock pickers and will never be stock pickers, for reasons that we have laid out many, many times. The title of this...

13 Dec 2019 A House Divided

Posted at 10:00h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

If it is not clear to you, in 2019, that humans are tribal creatures, then I would suggest you tour an elementary school, which I have done twice in the last two days on behalf of our rising-kindergartner. These people are tribal! They gather into...

08 Nov 2019 Running, money, and the importance of practice.

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

When I was a freshman in high school, someone convinced me it would be a good idea to run cross country as a way to get in shape for basketball season. Looking back I don't believe that was particularly good advice, since there is very...

11 Oct 2019 This Is Your Brain On (Financial) Drugs

Posted at 08:55h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

By cyclonebill - Spejlæg, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8822885 In 1987, The Partnership for a Drug Free America released one of the most famous commercials in TV history, featuring an egg in a frying pan and the dramatic line: “This is your brain on drugs.” Like most...