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03 Apr 2020 What the CARES Act Means For You

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

Yesterday morning at 8:30am the Labor Department released the absolutely bewildering number of last week's initial jobless claims: 6.6 million. The week before that it was 3.3 million. These numbers are so high (and likely to go much higher) that it's hard to put them...

06 Mar 2020 Is Now The Right Time to Invest That Cash?

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

When I got to the office on Monday, the market had just had an awful seven-day period that looked something like this: The Vanguard Total Market Index was down nearly 13% in about the same amount of time it takes my four year old to find...

07 Feb 2020 Money for the Two Halves of Life

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

"One cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning; for what was great in the morning will be of little importance in the evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening become a lie." Carl Jung said that....

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...