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14 Dec 2018 How to Time the Market

Posted at 12:36h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

Jesse Livermore was a stock trader who made his fortune during the 1929 stock market crash, in which he heavily shorted U.S. stocks and then began to buy them up near market lows. On the worst day of the crash, October 29, 1929, Livermore is...

16 Nov 2018 Thanks for Nothing, Headlines

Posted at 13:34h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

We will celebrate Thanksgiving in less than a week, on the 22nd of November (which is, incidentally, the earliest possible date we could celebrate Thanksgiving). You know how it goes when these early ones come around--we are all getting "snuck up on" and "caught off...

19 Oct 2018 Good money, Bad money

Posted at 12:14h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

When my son Charlie came home from the NICU in February and was going to doctors appointments with some frequency, one of the things that came up was that he, like many newborns, had a case of torticollis. Torticollis is basically the tendency for a...

21 Sep 2018 Disaster Relief? A Call To Action.

Posted at 13:48h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

[caption id="attachment_9815" align="alignright" width="500"] LUMBERTON, NC - SEPTEMBER 15: Members of Colorado Task Force 1, on the swift water team, head out to check on residents during Hurricane Florence on September 15, 2018 in Lumberton, North Carolina. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)[/caption] What an odd...