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25 Sep 2024 Friends Don’t Let Friends Get Too Cute

Posted at 18:46h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

My wife Amy and I are fairly rabid Formula 1 fans, which is definitely not something I would have had on my marriage bingo card 10 or even 5 years ago. But COVID changed everyone, and one of the ways it changed us was by introducing...

22 Aug 2024 Sports Betting and Poor Substitutes

Posted at 01:50h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

You think we look pretty good together You think my shoes are made of leather But I'm a substitute for another guy I look pretty tall, but my heels are high The simple things you see are all complicated I look pretty young, but I'm just back-dated, yeah "Substitute" - The...

25 Jul 2024 Own Goals Are Easy To Score

Posted at 14:11h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

If you have ever seen six-year olds playing soccer, then you will have seen the inevitable instance of one kid (and therefore a whole pack of kids) who forgot or possibly never knew which goal they were supposed to be scoring on. But even at the...

27 Jun 2024 What Is Cash For?

Posted at 14:50h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

Repeat after me: Cash. Is Not. An Investment. In this moment, when you can get a risk-free 5% while inflation sits around 3% (and when for more than a decade you got maybe 1% when inflation was often sub-2%), cash may feel like investment, but it is...