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20 Apr 2023 When $300k Feels Like $100k

Posted at 14:37h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

There was an article at Bloomberg this week with the title, "A $300,000 Salary Feels Like $100,000 in The Priciest US Cities," and I would like to say two things about that: 1) I bet these sorts of articles are reliably the most clicked articles,...

23 Mar 2023 People Aren’t Bored Anymore

Posted at 16:08h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

Almost exactly two years ago I wrote a blog entitled NFTs, SPACs, WSB, and the Problem of Boredom. The purpose of the blog was to point to the absurd excesses represented by non-fungible tokens (NFTs), special purposes acquisition companies (SPACs), and crypto projects of various sorts....

02 Mar 2023 Chatting With ChatGPT About My Money Questions

Posted at 15:14h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

I do not officially have a financial advisor (cobbler's children's shoes and all that, plus I am surrounded by great ones here who humor me), but if I did, I suppose the questions that I'd be asking her would tend toward these: How can...

02 Feb 2023 No Such Thing As Easy Money

Posted at 16:05h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

It seems to me that the most devastating, most commonly sold lie in finance is that something can be got for nothing. That the hard work can be skipped, that the process can be short-circuited, that no-pain can in fact lead to solid gains. This is an...