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13 Oct 2022 “All The Personal Finance Books Are Wrong”

Posted at 15:22h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

That's the title of a September article by Derek Thompson at The Atlantic. It's provocative enough on its own, but wait until you read the subtitle: "They tend to treat their readers like fools without willpower. So you could argue that they’re wrong for the...

15 Sep 2022 4 Dangers of High Incomes

Posted at 13:37h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

If you are approaching a four-way intersection in the U.S., one that does not have traffic lights, the most common way to deal with the conflict between cars travelling in intersecting directions is to have one stop sign at each crossing. The four-way stop is...

18 Aug 2022 What Is A House For?

Posted at 16:32h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

In September of 2014, Amy and I bought our first house. I had just quit a (higher-paying) job at a Big 4 accounting firm to come work at Beacon that spring, and without knowing much of anything about buying a house, we bought one: 955...

21 Jul 2022 LIV Golf and the Ethics of Money

Posted at 18:17h in The Friday Brief by Jared Korver, CPA, CFP®

I don't want to lose too many of you at the word "golf," so to sum up real quick: "LIV Golf" is a relatively new, Saudi-funded, rival golf league of the PGA Tour. The Saudi government has been implicated in many evil things over the...