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31 Jul 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 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 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 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...