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29 Feb 2024 Is It Time To Talk About Bitcoin Again?

Posted at 17:21h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

This week in the Wall Street Journal there was an article about…well actually the title, subtitle and your imagination are probably everything you need: “The TikTok Generation Turns to Sports Betting to Chip Away at Student Debt. Young men are trying to use ubiquitous online...

25 Jan 2024 Market High Soup For The Soul

Posted at 17:04h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

Major stock indexes hit all-time highs over the last week, following a calendar year in 2023 where the S&P 500 was up nearly 25%. Bonds will take a bit longer to recover as rates continue to "normalize." A decade-plus run-up in bond prices (while rates...

14 Dec 2023 Expectation Economics

Posted at 14:55h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

My maternal grandfather was born in south Alabama in May of 1924, and I remember him telling a story from his childhood of a Christmas morning during the Great Depression when he woke up to find an orange in his stocking. Such was the extent of the...

02 Nov 2023 Fed Up With Questions

Posted at 15:16h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

How long will the Fed keep rates where they are? Is there another rate hike coming, or will rates start to come down again? If so, when? In the meantime what’s in store for my portfolio? The answer or course—to these and many other important questions—is...