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09 Aug 2019 Is Sharing for Adults, Too?

Posted at 09:47h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

My wife Amy and I have two sons--Miles and Charlie--who are four years old and almost two years old, respectively. Do you know what one character trait we spend the most energy and time attempting to teach them? Of course you do! It's sharing. Share the Legos. Give your...

12 Jul 2019 A Crummy Commercial!

Posted at 07:48h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

The New York Times ran an article a couple of weeks ago entitled "How E-Commerce Sites Manipulate You Into Buying Things You May Not Want," which was full of the sort of depressing and sometimes disturbing data privacy-related information that you may have grown accustomed...

14 Jun 2019 Do you need a million dollars to retire?

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

"The greatest show on television is Survivor," is an opinion I hold dearly and would be happy to share with you, but anyway here's an interesting tidbit about the game: Since the year 2000 when the show debuted in the U.S., the prize for the winner...

17 May 2019 What’s the point of giving your money away?

Posted at 09:00h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

Now that the 2018 tax season is over (unless you extended, but you know what I mean), we've gotten through our first official tax year of higher standard deductions, which, among other things, means for most people the relative value of each dollar given to charity has gone down...