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07 Sep 2018 In Defense of a Working Retirement

Posted at 14:32h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

On Sunday, this "news" came out that Geoffrey Owens--an actor who had a recurring role on The Cosby Show--was spotted working at a Trader Joe's somewhere in New Jersey, and then shamed for it. The sentiment seems to have been something like, "Poor Geoffrey. If only his former fame had...

27 Jul 2018 FOMO and Facebook: Why Diversification Matters

Posted at 10:12h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

A couple of interesting things happened this week that led to this blog, but before I get to them, I want to start elsewhere. I did a very bad thing before I sat down to write this, which was to get on Redfin and look at...

29 Jun 2018 401k Bombs and the Fall of GE

Posted at 08:26h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

In Barbarians at the Gate, a thrilling tale of the buyout of RJR Nabisco in the late 80s, there is an account of the development of a smokeless cigarette product called Premier that, while being ahead of its time in some respects, was also a...

15 Jun 2018 3 Ways To Fail As An Investor

Posted at 08:33h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

Charlie Munger, Warren Buffet's famed right-hand man at Berkshire Hathaway, is fond of using the phrase, "Invert, always invert." While Munger is often credited with the origination of the quote, he is borrowing from 19th century German mathematician Carl Jacobi, who coined the phrase as...