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26 Apr 2019 How much should you tip? And other questions.

Posted at 10:38h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

In 1992, during the Barcelona Olympics (where the greatest basketball team of all time was assembled), Seinfeld began its fourth season with a two-part opening called "The Trip." Like almost all Seinfeld episodes, there's no point in me trying to recap what happens in those...

12 Apr 2019 The Trouble With Biometric Investment Monitors

Posted at 08:30h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

I mean this in the best possible way: You do not keep yourself alive. The breathing, the movement of blood, the functioning of the kidneys and liver and all the rest--you and I have no role whatsoever in making it all work. The most we can...

08 Mar 2019 Exception and Nuance: The King and Queen of Finance

Posted at 13:50h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

My son Miles and I went to breakfast this morning before I dropped him off at preschool. We got a bacon, egg, and cheese biscuit for each of us and a donut to share, plus milk for him and coffee for me. I don't know...

11 Jan 2019 Who Can Sell Stocks Better Than a Monkey?

Posted at 13:23h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

We have talked a lot--generally, and in the specific context of the last few months of market volatility--about the importance of an investment process that isn't based on words like "hope" or "proprietary model" or even "I just have a good feeling about this." This...